Guide to the John R. TeWinkel Papers,
1926-1991

Collection Number: 4380

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
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http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
M.E. Warren
Date completed:
August 1988
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, April 2003

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
John R. TeWinkel papers, 1926-1991.
Collection Number:
4380
Creator:
John R. TeWinkel, 1916-
Quantity:
1.9 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence; notes, flashcards, and other materials related to linguistics and spelling reform; files; an autobiography and vitae; a will; news clippings; and photographs.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Papers of John R. TeWinkel, a Cornell graduate who lived in China, Morocco, Greece, Nigeria, and the United States.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

John R. TeWinkel graduated from Cornell University in 1938 and received an M.A. from Boston University in 1958. From 1941 to 1942, he taught English in Nanking and Chungking, China, and later taught in Morocco, Greece, and Nigeria, as well as in a number of schools in the United States. He also served in a Friends Ambulance Unit as a medical relief distributor in South China, 1942-1944; and as librarian and transaction clerk in the UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration headquarters in Washington, D.C.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Papers include correspondence; notes, flashcards, and other materials related to linguistics and spelling reform; files on health, travels, social planning, arms control, and other topics; an autobiography and vitae; a will; news clippings; and photographs. Correspondents include siblings W. Gordon, Helen, Lois, and Joy TeWinkel; his aunt, Sarella TeWinkel; his mother, Lucy TeWinkel; Idorenyin U. Akpan; David Sergeant; and others, especially friends in Australia and Nigeria. Also, memorabilia relating to his tour of Japan, 1988; and correspondence about Sichuan University. Also, a broadside "Letter from the Communist Party to the Whole People," an explanation of military suppression in Tienanmen Square, 1989.
SUBJECTS

Names:
TeWinkel, John R., 1916-
Akpan, Idorenyin U.
Sergeant, David.
TeWinkel, Helen.
TeWinkel, Joy.
TeWinkel, Lois.
TeWinkel, Lucy.
TeWinkel, Sarella.
TeWinkel, W. Gordon.

Subjects:
Spelling reform.
Phonetic alphabet.
New Age movement.
Arms control.

Places:
Africa--Description and travel.
Nigeria--Description and travel.
China--Description and travel.

Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Access Restrictions:
Letter to Shen Xiaoquian is closed until 2015.
Cite As:
John R. TeWinkel papers, #4380. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
1930-1938
TeWinkel family letters
Box 1 Folder 1
Jan.-Sept. 1939
TeWinkel family letters
Box 1 Folder 2
Oct.-Dec. 1939
TeWinkel family letters
Box 1 Folder 3
1940, 1965
TeWinkel family letters
Box 1 Folder 4
1984-1985
John TeWinkel letters to family
Box 1 Folder 5
1967-1982
David Sergeant letters, Australia
Box 1 Folder 6
1965-1972
Nigerian letters
Box 1 Folder 7
1973-1976
Nigerian letters
Box 1 Folder 8
c. 1966-1974
Idorenyin U. Akpan, Nigeria
Box 1 Folder 9
1935-1945
General correspondence
Box 1 Folder 10
1957-1974
General correspondence
Box 1 Folder 11
1975-1988, n.d.
General correspondence
Box 1 Folder 12
1944, 1978
Miscellany
Box 1 Folder 13
Photographs
Box 1 Folder 14-15
1941
John TeWinkel letters to family
Box 1 Folder 16
1942
John TeWinkel letters to family
Box 1 Folder 17
1943
John TeWinkel letters to family
Box 1 Folder 18
1944
John TeWinkel letters to family
Box 1 Folder 19
1945
John TeWinkel letters to family
Box 1 Folder 20
n.d.
John TeWinkel letters to family
Box 1 Folder 21
Photographs
Box 1 Folder 22-23
Travel documents
 Box 1 Folder 24
1947
Autobiography - Berkeley
 Box 2 Folder 1
1953
Autobiographical sketch
 Box 2 Folder 2
1933-1965
Vitae
 Box 2 Folder 3
Will and clippings
 Box 2 Folder 4
1987-1988
Applications
 Box 2 Folder 5
Edgar Cayce
 Box 2 Folder 6
1944-1961, n.d.
General correspondence
 Box 2 Folder 7
Bibliography
 Box 2 Folder 8
College bluebooks
 Box 2 Folder 9
Corbett, Jim - articles
 Box 2 Folder 10
1958-1971
Africa
 Box 2 Folder 11-14
Ing
 Box 2 Folder 15
Linguistics
 Box 2 Folder 16
Reading and Unifon
 Box 2 Folder 17
Rupert, Arnold
 Box 2 Folder 18-19
Rit
 Box 2 Folder 20
Spelwel
 Box 2 Folder 21
Spel. Ref.
 Box 2 Folder 22
Spelling - William W. Murphy
 Box 2 Folder 23
Chinese flash cards
 Box 2 Folder 24
Alternative thought miscellany
 Box 3 Folder 1-3
Appaloosa horse
 Box 3 Folder 4
1980
Sketch of Aristotle painting
 Box 3 Folder 5
Arms control
 Box 3 Folder 6
Articles and news clippings
 Box 3 Folder 7
Base community
 Box 3 Folder 8
Borsadi
 Box 3 Folder 9
China geography
 Box 3 Folder 10
1987
University of Massachusetts - Chinese lessons
 Box 3 Folder 11
1987-1988
Community economics
 Box 3 Folder 12
1970
Counselors manual
 Box 3 Folder 13
Cultural survival
 Box 3 Folder 14
Currency
 Box 3 Folder 15
"Defense Monitor"
 Box 3 Folder 16
Ekistics, social planning, and miscellany
 Box 3 Folder 17
1983-1985
Finances in Mexico and Quito
 Box 3 Folder 18
Health
 Box 3 Folder 19
1983
"Hiland Vali Apresiation"
 Box 3 Folder 20
Hippocrates Health Institute
 Box 3 Folder 21
"How Old is the Earth?"
 Box 3 Folder 22
Human economy
 Box 3 Folder 23
1986-1988
Hunger
 Box 3 Folder 24
1970
Hypoglycemia
 Box 3 Folder 25
1988
Japan
 Box 3 Folder 26
1987
Japanese education
 Box 3 Folder 27
1946-1951
Land
 Box 3 Folder 28
1974
Macroanalysis seminars
 Box 3 Folder 29
Maps
 Box 3 Folder 30
1987
Medical advances
 Box 3 Folder 31
Medicare
 Box 3 Folder 32
Micah 6:8
 Box 3 Folder 33
Miracles, Course in
 Box 3 Folder 34
1981-1984
Miscellany
 Box 3 Folder 35
1983
Miscellany
 Box 3 Folder 36
1952
Morocco
 Box 3 Folder 37
National Gay Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF)
 Box 3 Folder 38
Neanderthal man
 Box 3 Folder 39
1964-1965
Nigeria
 Box 3 Folder 40
1985
Nuclear war
 Box 3 Folder 41
1941
Peace plan for Europe
 Box 3 Folder 42
1973
People's Yellow Pages
Box 3 Folder 43
Psychology
 Box 3 Folder 44
1981-1982
Quakers
 Box 3 Folder 45
1987-1988
Quaker concerns
 Box 3 Folder 46
1986-1987
Rainforest
 Box 3 Folder 47
Reprints
 Box 3 Folder 48
1986-1988
Right sharing; debt
 Box 3 Folder 49
1988
Rupert, Arnold
 Box 3 Folder 50
1983
Senior Aide Handbook
 Box 3 Folder 51
1986-1987
Seventh Generation Fund
 Box 3 Folder 52
Sleep
 Box 3 Folder 53
1976-1978
Sleep clinic
 Box 3 Folder 54
Spanish
 Box 3 Folder 55
1988
Survival of tribes
 Box 3 Folder 56
1987
Teaching in China Preparation Committee
 Box 3 Folder 57
1972
Thresholds - Manual for the Correctional Counselor
 Box 3 Folder 58-59
Umskrip
 Box 3 Folder 60
Wildlife
 Box 3 Folder 61