John R. TeWinkel papers, 1926-1991.
Collection Number: 4380
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
John R. TeWinkel papers, 1926-1991.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
4380
Abstract:
Papers of John R. TeWinkel, a Cornell graduate who lived in China, Morocco, Greece,
Nigeria, and the United States.
Creator:
TeWinkel, John R., 1916-
Quanitities:
1.9 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
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.
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 Tiananmen Square, 1989.
A May 7, 1982 letter to Tewinkel covers gay and lesbian topics, including gay sex
in Sydney, Australia's steam baths, Radclyffe Hall's "The Well of Loneliness," and
other literature on homosexuality. (Box 1, folder 6)
INFORMATION FOR USERS
John R. TeWinkel papers, #4380. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Access to the letter to Shen Xiaoquian restricted until 2015.
Names:
Akpan, Idorenyin U.
Sergeant, David.
TeWinkel, Helen.
TeWinkel, Joy.
TeWinkel, Lois.
TeWinkel, Lucy.
TeWinkel, Sarella.
TeWinkel, W. Gordon.
Places:
China -- Description.
Nigeria -- Description.
Africa -- Description.
Subjects:
Tian\'an Men (Beijing, China).
Homosexuality.
Arms control.
New Age movement.
Phonetic alphabet.
Spelling reform.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
CONTAINER LIST
|
Container
|
Description
|
Date
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
TeWinkel family letters
|
1930-1938 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
TeWinkel family letters
|
Jan.-Sept. 1939 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
TeWinkel family letters
|
Oct.-Dec. 1939 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
TeWinkel family letters
|
1940, 1965 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
John TeWinkel letters to family
|
1984-1985 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
David Sergeant letters, Australia
|
1967-1982 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Nigerian letters
|
1965-1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Nigerian letters
|
1973-1976 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Idorenyin U. Akpan, Nigeria
|
1966-1974 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
General correspondence
|
1935-1945 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
General correspondence
|
1957-1974 |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
General correspondence
|
1975-1988, n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Miscellany
|
1944, 1978 |
| Box 1 | Folder 14-15 |
Photographs
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
John TeWinkel letters to family
|
1941 |
| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
John TeWinkel letters to family
|
1942 |
| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
John TeWinkel letters to family
|
1943 |
| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
John TeWinkel letters to family
|
1944 |
| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
John TeWinkel letters to family
|
1945 |
| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
John TeWinkel letters to family
|
n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 22-23 |
Photographs
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Travel documents
|
|
| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Autobiography - Berkeley
|
1947 |
| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Autobiographical sketch
|
1953 |
| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Vitae
|
1933-1965 |
| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Will and clippings
|
|
| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Applications
|
1987-1988 |
| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Edgar Cayce
|
|
| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
General correspondence
|
1944-1961, n.d. |
| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Bibliography
|
|
| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
College bluebooks
|
|
| Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Corbett, Jim - articles
|
|
| Box 2 | Folder 11-14 |
Africa
|
1958-1971 |
| Box 2 | Folder 15 |
Ing
|
|
| Box 2 | Folder 16 |
Linguistics
|
|
| Box 2 | Folder 17 |
Reading and Unifon
|
|
| Box 2 | Folder 18-19 |
Rupert, Arnold
|
|
| Box 2 | Folder 20 |
Rit
|
|
| Box 2 | Folder 21 |
Spelwel
|
|
| Box 2 | Folder 22 |
Spel. Ref.
|
|
| Box 2 | Folder 23 |
Spelling - William W. Murphy
|
|
| Box 2 | Folder 24 |
Chinese flash cards
|
|
| Box 3 | Folder 1-3 |
Alternative thought miscellany
|
|
| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Appaloosa horse
|
|
| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Sketch of Aristotle painting
|
1980 |
| Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Arms control
|
|
| Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Articles and news clippings
|
|
| Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Base community
|
|
| Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Borsadi
|
|
| Box 3 | Folder 10 |
China geography
|
|
| Box 3 | Folder 11 |
University of Massachusetts - Chinese lessons
|
1987 |
| Box 3 | Folder 12 |
Community economics
|
1987-1988 |
| Box 3 | Folder 13 |
Counselors manual
|
1970 |
| Box 3 | Folder 14 |
Cultural survival
|
|
| Box 3 | Folder 15 |
Currency
|
|
| Box 3 | Folder 16 |
"Defense Monitor"
|
|
| Box 3 | Folder 17 |
Ekistics, social planning, and miscellany
|
|
| Box 3 | Folder 18 |
Finances in Mexico and Quito
|
1983-1985 |
| Box 3 | Folder 19 |
Health
|
|
| Box 3 | Folder 20 |
"Hiland Vali Apresiation"
|
1983 |
| Box 3 | Folder 21 |
Hippocrates Health Institute
|
|
| Box 3 | Folder 22 |
"How Old is the Earth?"
|
|
| Box 3 | Folder 23 |
Human economy
|
|
| Box 3 | Folder 24 |
Hunger
|
1986-1988 |
| Box 3 | Folder 25 |
Hypoglycemia
|
1970 |
| Box 3 | Folder 26 |
Japan
|
1988 |
| Box 3 | Folder 27 |
Japanese education
|
1987 |
| Box 3 | Folder 28 |
Land
|
1946-1951 |
| Box 3 | Folder 29 |
Macroanalysis seminars
|
1974 |
| Box 3 | Folder 30 |
Maps
|
|
| Box 3 | Folder 31 |
Medical advances
|
1987 |
| Box 3 | Folder 32 |
Medicare
|
|
| Box 3 | Folder 33 |
Micah 6:8
|
|
| Box 3 | Folder 34 |
Miracles, Course in
|
|
| Box 3 | Folder 35 |
Miscellany
|
1981-1984 |
| Box 3 | Folder 36 |
Miscellany
|
1983 |
| Box 3 | Folder 37 |
Morocco
|
1952 |
| Box 3 | Folder 38 |
National Gay Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF)
|
|
| Box 3 | Folder 39 |
Neanderthal man
|
|
| Box 3 | Folder 40 |
Nigeria
|
1964-1965 |
| Box 3 | Folder 41 |
Nuclear war
|
1985 |
| Box 3 | Folder 42 |
Peace plan for Europe
|
1941 |
| Box 3 | Folder 43 |
People's Yellow Pages
|
1973 |
| Box 3 | Folder 44 |
Psychology
|
|
| Box 3 | Folder 45 |
Quakers
|
1981-1982 |
| Box 3 | Folder 46 |
Quaker concerns
|
1987-1988 |
| Box 3 | Folder 47 |
Rainforest
|
1986-1987 |
| Box 3 | Folder 48 |
Reprints
|
|
| Box 3 | Folder 49 |
Right sharing; debt
|
1986-1988 |
| Box 3 | Folder 50 |
Rupert, Arnold
|
1988 |
| Box 3 | Folder 51 |
Senior Aide Handbook
|
1983 |
| Box 3 | Folder 52 |
Seventh Generation Fund
|
1986-1987 |
| Box 3 | Folder 53 |
Sleep
|
|
| Box 3 | Folder 54 |
Sleep clinic
|
1976-1978 |
| Box 3 | Folder 55 |
Spanish
|
|
| Box 3 | Folder 56 |
Survival of tribes
|
1988 |
| Box 3 | Folder 57 |
Teaching in China Preparation Committee
|
1987 |
| Box 3 | Folder 58-59 |
Thresholds - Manual for the Correctional Counselor
|
1972 |
| Box 3 | Folder 60 |
Umskrip
|
|
| Box 3 | Folder 61 |
Wildlife
|
|
| Box 4 |
Miscellaneous correspondence and other papers
|
1950's-1990's | |
| Manuscript Box 88 |
"Letter from the Communist Party to the Whole People," an explanation of military
suppression in Tiananmen Square
|
1989 | |