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Papers, #1260. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.  aWillard D. Straight was born on January 31, 1880 in Oswego, New York. His father died in 1886; the next year Straight and his family moved to Japan. In 1890 his mother died and he returned to Oswego. He attended Bordentown Military Institute in New Jersey, 1896-97, and majored in architecture at Cornell University, 1897-1901.  bIn November 1901 he was appointed to a position with the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service, and from 1902-04 he was personal secretary to Sir Robert Hart, Inspector General of the Service in Peking. Also in 1902, he illustrated VERSE AND WORSE for J.O.P. Bland. In June 1905 he was appointed Vice-Consul under Edwin V. Morgan in Seoul, Korea.  bIn June 1906 he was appointed Consul-General at Mukden, Manchuria. In 1909 he illustrated HOUSEBOAT DAYS IN CHINA, again for Bland. That June he left the consular service to represent J.P. Morgan and Company and other banks and investors, the American Group.  bIn 1911, he married Dorothy Payne Whitney. They left China in 1912 when revolution broke out, returning to the United States. Straight continued to encourage investment in China through the American Asiatic Association, of which he became president in 1913. In 1914, the Straights began publication of THE NEW REPUBLIC.  bIn 1915 Straight resigned from J.P. Morgan and was appointed third vice president of American International Corporation. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1917. In 1918, while arranging for the arrival of the American Peace Mission in Paris, Straight contracted pneumonia, and he died on December 1, 1918.  aMicrofilmed papers of Willard D. Straight consist of personal and official correspondence, both original and typescript copies, and reports chiefly concerning his association with the Chinese Imperial Customs Service (1902-04). Documented is his employment with Reuters during the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05); with the United States Department of State in Korea and Manchuria (1904-09); and with Edward H. Harriman, Jacob H. Schiff, and J.P. Morgan and Company (1904-09).  bLetters and reports address in particular the interest of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft in the Harriman-Schiff-Morgan proposals for investments in China from 1907-09; and concern Japanese diplomacy and finance, 1909-10; Straight's interest in THE NEW REPUBLIC and the American Asiatic Association; his role in the "preparedness" campaign in New York through the Mayor's Committee on National Defense (1915-17); his connection with the American International Corporation (1916-18);  bhis conduct of joint purchasing operations for the French and British governments through J.P. Morgan (1915-16); his efforts to establish the merit system in the State Department career service; and his administration of the War Risk Insurance Bureau and the establishment of its headquarters overseas (1918). In addition, there are many letters to his wife, with comments on the Red Cross, U.S. Army promotional policies, Pershing as a commander, and the American Expeditionary Force.  bThe collection also includes his diaries (1901-18), with transcriptions, reports, and other papers about the development of railroads, waterways, and coal mines in China and Manchuria, currency reform in China, the proposed international loan to China (1909-11), and the Far Eastern situation in general. There are also books of clippings on the Russo-Japanese War and other events in the Orient, and on the World War I work of Mr. and Mrs. Straight.  bAlso many letters of condolence, memorials and memoirs written at the time of Straight's death, and correspondence and reports about the building of Willard Straight Hall at Cornell (1919-22).  bNon-microfilmed papers include documents on his parents and genealogy; Bordentown Military Institute; military training; Cornell; George Collingwood Bennett, Straight's valet, including photographs and memorabilia; tributes, publications, drafts, inventories and seances following Straight's death; correspondence; and a diary.  bAlso included are photographs and photograph albums, postcards, and commercial views; published and unpublished watercolors; pen, pencil, and crayon sketches; and charcoals by Willard Straight. This includes student work such as architectural drawings, watercolors, life drawings, and sketches for the CORNELLIAN and the WIDOW, two Cornell newspapers. Also, artwork collected by the Straights, certificates, and maps.0 aPublished guide to microfilm: THE WILLARD STRAIGHT PAPERS AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY.0 aFolder-level index to microfilm.0 aUnpublished guide to non-microfilmed documents.0 aUnpublished guide to artwork: VISUAL DOCUMENTATION IN THE WILLARD D. STRAIGHT PAPERS.3 aDescribed in REPORT OF THE CURATOR AND ARCHIVIST, 1950-1954.10aBennett, George Collingwood.10aBland, John Otway Percy,d1863-1945.tHouseboat days in China.10aBland, John Otway Percy,d1863-1945.tVerse and worse.10aElmhirst, Dorothy Payne Whitney Straight.10aHarriman, Edward Henry,d1848-1909.10aHart, Robert,cSir,d1835-191110aMorgan, Edwin V.10aMorgan, J. Pierpontq(John Pierpont),d1837-1913.10aPershing, John J.q(John Joseph),d1860-1948.10aRoosevelt, Theodore,d1858-1919.10aSchiff, Jacob H.q(Jacob Henry),d1847-1920.10aTaft, William H.q(William Howard),d1857-1930.10aChina.bImperial Maritime Customs Service.20aReuters ltd.10aUnited States.bDept. of State.10aUnited States.bBureau of War Risk Insurance.10aUnited States.bArmy.10aNew York (N.Y.).bMayor's Committee on National Defense.20aRed Cross.20aAmerican Group.20aAmerican Asiatic Association.20aAmerican International Corporation.20aCornell UniversityxBuildings.20aCornell UniversityxPeriodicals.20aCornell University.20aWillard Straight Hall (Ithaca, N.Y.)20aBordentown Military Institute.20aJ.P. Morgan & Co.00aCornellian.00aNew Republic.00aWidow. 0aDiplomatic and consular service. 0aInternational finance. 0aInternational relations. 0aMilitary education. 0aRusso-Japanese War, 1904-1905. 0aWorld War, 1914-1918. 0aChina. 0aJapan. 0aKorea. 0aManchuria (China). 7aArtists, American.2lcsh 7aIllustratorszUnited States.2lcsh 7aDiplomatszUnited States.2lcsh  a20000313120000.0