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Size | 20.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 5875 items) |
Abstract | Lawrence D. Kessler, emeritus professor of Chinese history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, gathered the unrelated papers of George R. Marvell, the North Carolina China Council, Lawrence D. Kessler, and the Newton and Underwood families. George Ralph Marvell was a career United States Navy officer, who retired from active service in 1931 as a rear admiral. His papers, many of which relate to travels and work in China and the Philippines, contain personal correspondence, financial and legal papers, photographs, and other materials relating to him; his wife, Anna Nippes Wynkoop Marvell; and their son, George, who served as a submarine officer in the Navy, 1917-1935. The North Carolina China Council, a regional affiliate of the Asia Society, was established in 1977 and remained active until at least 1989. Records consist of administrative materials, including newsletters, annual reports, minutes from meetings, memoranda, funding and grant proposals, and a correspondence file, and research materials, including photographs and audio-visual recordings relating to the Council's traveling exhibit and presentation, North Carolina's China Connections, 1840-1949. Publications include pamphlets, flyers, posters, and a bound print version of the text and photographs that were in the exhibit. There are also research materials and publications related to other Council activities on topics such as the One-Child Policy and United States-China trade. The Lawrence Kessler papers relate to his activities in radical politics. They include organizational materials and public documents of the North Carolina Legal Defense Fund and the Chapel Hill chapter of the New University Conference. The organizational papers include minutes from meetings, annual reports, press releases, project proposals, correspondence, fund raising letters, and posters. The public documents include pamphlets, position papers, and serial publications of the New University Conference. Ruth Elizabeth Newton (fl. 1888-1957) was the daughter of John C. Calhoun Newton (1849-1931) and Letty Lay Newton (1848-1924?) of Kobe, Japan, where her father, a minister, taught theology and ethics at the Kwansei Gakuin, a secondary school run by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In 1905, Ruth Newton married Emory Marvin Underwood, a lawyer who later served as a federal judge in Atlanta, Ga. The Newton and Underwood family papers consist of the personal letters received or written by Ruth Elizabeth Newton Underwood, the sermons and other unpublished writings of John C. Calhoun Newton, United States and Japanese publications of the Episcopal Methodist Church, South, and photographs of the Newton family and their friends from Kobe, Japan. The Addition of December 2006 consists of materials relating to activism and activist groups on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus and in the Chapel Hill community at large, including publications relating to activist groups, such as newsletters of the Chapel Hill Peace Center, Bread and Roses socialist community newsletters, issues of The Southern Patriot, and other printed materials. The addition of March 2023 contains documents pertaining to Kessler's work on a book about the connections between the North Carolina and Chinese tobacco industries with coauthor Burton Floyd Beers (1927-2016), a history professor of at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C. The main focus of the papers is about history and workings of the British American Tobacco company. The documents consist of a wide variety of materials including printed and annotated news and academic articles about tobacco, cigarettes, North Carolina tobacco, and the Chinese agriculture industry; conference reports; chapter drafts; notes on interviews or source readings; correspondence between Kessler and Beers related to drafts and sources; and obituary material for Beers. There are extensive handwritten notes, some of where are written on index cards and staple bound. At least one document is written entirely in Chinese. |
Creator | Kessler, Lawrence D. |
Curatorial Unit | Southern Historical Collection |
Language | English. |
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Lawrence Kessler, professor emeritus of Chinese history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, assembled and donated the various papers that comprise this collection. In keeping with his formal academic interests, he was one of the founders and the long-time director of the North Carolina China Council. Kessler was also actively involved with a number of political organizations, including the North Carolina Legal Defense Fund and the Chapel Hill chapter of the New University Conference.
George Ralph Marvell, an officer in the United States Navy, was born in Fall River, Mass., in 1869. His parents were Edward Tracy and Anna Congdon Wilbur Marvell. In 1889, Marvell graduated from the Naval Academy and three years later, in 1892, he married Anna Nippes Wynkoop. Their only child, George, who also graduated from the Naval Academy and served as an officer until he was forced to retire for medical reasons in 1935, was born in 1899. George Ralph Marvell's career was a successful one, and he was eventually promoted to rear admiral. He retired in 1933 and died in 1941. While in the Navy, Marvell served in the following postings:
1885-1889 | Midshipman at the United States Naval Academy |
1889-1890 | Served aboard the U.S.S. Pensacola during an expedition to Cape Ledo, Angola, and west Africa to view a total eclipse |
1894 | Patrol duty in the Bering Sea |
1898 | Served aboard the U.S.S. Vicksburg during the Spanish-American War |
1899 | Part of a team surveying the bay at Santiago, Cuba |
1906-1908 | In command of the team conducting a survey of Cuba and Haiti while serving as navigator on the U.S.S. Eagle |
1909-1912 | Chair of the Department of Navigation at the United States Naval Academy |
1912-1913 | Commanded the U.S.S. Monterey and then the U.S.S. Helena in China |
1915 | Assigned to the Navy Department's Bureau of Ordnance |
1917-1919 | Commanded the U.S.S.Louisiana and engaged in troop transport and convoy duty with the Atlantic Fleet during World War I |
1919-1921 | Inspector of Ordnance at the Naval Ordnance Plant, South Charleston, W.Va. |
1921-1922 | Commanded the U.S.S. Arizona |
1922-1924 | Commandant of the 16th Naval District, the Philippine Islands |
1924-1925 | Commanded the Fleet Base Force in the Pacific |
1926-1927 | Naval War College |
1927-1930 | Commandant of the 14th Naval District, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii |
1930-1931 | Commanded Light Cruiser Division Five |
1932-1933 | Chair of the United States Navy General Board |
1933 | Retired from active service as a Rear Admiral |
The North Carolina China Council, a regional affiliate of the Asia Society, was established in 1977 and remained active until at least 1989. Locally sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University, and Duke University, the Council was a non-partisan and non-profit educational entity designed to promote a broader awareness among North Carolinians of Chinese culture, history, and recent events as well as to foster better Chinese-American relations. As a part of its public education efforts, the Council sponsored a number of local conferences devoted to topics such as China's One-Child policy, United States-China trade, and the process of scholarly exchange. The Council also carried out an extensive investigation of North Carolina's ties with China that culminated in the creation of an exhibit called North Carolina's China Connections. This multi-media presentation was exhibited at numerous venues throughout the state.
Ruth Elizabeth Newton (fl. 1888-1957), the sole surviving daughter of John C. Calhoun Newton (1849-1931) and Letty Lay Newton (1848-1924?) spent her early childhood in Kobe, Japan, where her father, a minister, taught theology and ethics at the Kwansei Gakuin, a secondary school run by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In the mid-1890s, Ruth Newton and her mother returned to the United States so that she could complete her education. In 1898, she graduated from the Nashville College for Young Ladies and shortly thereafter assumed a teaching post at the Littleton Female College, Littleton, N.C. In 1905, she married Emory Marvin Underwood (1877-1960), a graduate of Vanderbilt University (B.A., 1900, LL.B., 1902), an attorney in Atlanta, Ga. In addition to having a private law practice, Underwood served in the following positions:
1914-1917 | Assistant Attorney General of the United States |
1917-1919 | General Counsel of the Seaboard Air Line Company |
1919-1920 | General Solicitor of the United States Railroad Administration |
1931-1948 | United States District Court Judge, Northern District of Georgia |
The Lawrence D. Kessler Collection contains four discrete collections: the George Ralph Marvell papers, the North Carolina China Council papers, the Lawrence D. Kessler papers, and the Newton and Underwood family papers.
George Ralph Marvell papers contain personal correspondence, financial and legal papers, photographs, and other materials, including school papers, newspaper clippings, a passport, and Masonic documents of George Ralph Marvell (1869-1941), a United States Navy officer; his wife, Anna Nippes Wynkoop Marvell; and their son, George Marvell, who served as an officer in the Navy. Correspondence begins with Marvell's entrance into the United States Naval Academy in 1885 and continues until his death in 1941. Major correspondents were his parents, Edward Tracy Marvell and Anna Congdon Marvell; siblings, Mary Marvell, M. D. Marvell, and Edward I. Marvell; his wife, Anna Nippes Wynkoop Marvell; and eventually his son, George Marvell. In addition to addressing family matters, Marvell's letters contain descriptions of his travels and duty postings with the United States Navy. Similarly, after his graduation from the Naval Academy in 1917, George Marvell, the son, often wrote to his father about his career in the submarine service and as a staff officer. Correspondence prior to 1885 falls into three categories. In the 1850s, Anna Congdon Wilbur received a number of business letters concerning agricultural properties that she owned in Ralls County, Mo. In the 1860s, Mary Marvel Sullings received letters concerning a law suit that she was pursuing in an attempt to gain control of her deceased-husband's estate. Also in the 1860s, Edward Tracy Marvel, who was serving as a private in the 7th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment during the Civil War in defense of Washington, D.C., wrote home about military life. Financial materials primarily concern the affairs of George and Anna Marvell. There is a complete set of federal income tax filings, 1913-1939, and extensive property files that include surveys as well as an inventory and history of the Marvell's most significant belongings. Finally, there are various materials relating to the settlement of the estate of Anna Marvell's father, Henry Wynkoop. There are also three 18th-century financial letters; a number of late 19th-century receipts; land grants issued in 1837 for property in Palmyra County, Mo.; and a variety of legal pleadings and documents, some of which relate to Mary Marvel Sullings's legal case to gain control of her deceased husband's estate. Other materials include clippings, school papers and report cards, Masonic documents, a United States passport, miscellaneous writings, pencil sketches, blank 19th-century European postcards, a genealogical research notebook, and family and travel photographs taken by the Marvell and Wynkoop families. Photographs of George Ralph Marvell and his son, George Marvell, include pictures taken aboard United States Navy vessels, including surface ships and submarines. There are extensive photographs of various Asian locales that were taken during Admiral Marvell's assignments to China, 1912-1913, and the Philippine Islands, 1922-1924.
North Carolina China Council papers consist of administrative, published, and research materials of the North Carolina China Council, 1977-1989. Administrative materials include newsletters, annual reports, minutes from meetings, memoranda, funding and grant proposals, and a correspondence file. The bulk of the research materials relates to the Council's traveling exhibit and presentation, North Carolina's China Connections, 1840-1949. Research materials include an extensive collection of photographs, including prints; slides and some negatives; audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with various North Carolinians who worked or lived in China; video tape recordings of exhibit presentations and interviews; and film footage taken by various interviewees in China during the first half of the 20th century. Exhibit publications include pamphlets, flyers, posters, and a bound print version of the text and photographs that made up the exhibit. There are also research materials, audio recordings, and publications of other Council conferences and events on topics such as the One-Child Policy and United States-China trade.
Lawrence D. Kessler papers include organizational materials and public documents of the North Carolina Legal Defense Fund and the Chapel Hill chapter of the New University Conference. The organizational papers include minutes from meetings, annual reports, press releases, project proposals, correspondence, fund raising letters, and posters. Public documents include pamphlets, position papers, and serial publications of the New University Conference. The addition of March 2023 contains documents pertaining to Kessler's work on a book about the connections between the North Carolina and Chinese tobacco industries with coauthor Burton Floyd Beers (1927-2016), a history professor of at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C. The main focus of the papers is about history and workings of the British American Tobacco company. The documents consist of a wide variety of materials including printed and annotated news and academic articles about tobacco, cigarettes, North Carolina tobacco, and the Chinese agriculture industry; conference reports; chapter drafts; notes on interviews or source readings; correspondence between Kessler and Beers related to drafts and sources; and obituary material for Beers. There are extensive handwritten notes, some of where are written on index cards and staple bound. At least one document is written entirely in Chinese.
Newton and Underwood family papers contain personal letters received or written by Ruth Elizabeth Newton Underwood, the unpublished writings of John C. Calhoun Newton, United States and Japanese publications of the Episcopal Methodist Church, South, and photographs of the Newton family and their friends from Kobe, Japan. The bulk of the letters are between Ruth Newton Underwood and her parents, who resided at the Kwansei Gakuin, a Methodist Episcopal secondary school in Kobe, Japan. Although predominately concerned with daily life and family news, the letters contain references to current events. Those written by John C. Calhoun Newton, who served in various administrative and teaching positions at the Kwansei Gakuin, often make reference to the school's affairs and its relationships with the Japanese world. Ruth Newton's correspondence with Emory Marvin Underwood, who became a lawyer and federal judge, begins during her college years. After their marriage in the summer of 1905, there are fewer letters, but during Underwood's service, 1919-1920, as the general solicitor for the United States Railroad Administration in Washington, D.C., their correspondence resumes. These are personal letters devoted to family matters and concerns, but there is also mention of Underwood's legal career and the couple's broader activities in civic organizations such as Herbert Hoover's European Relief Drive and the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. Writings of John C. Calhoun Newton consist of sermons, prayer meeting talks, lecture notes on ethics delivered to the students of the Kwansei Gakuin, and drafts of a larger work devoted to the subject of christian ethics. There are a number of publications commemorating communal events or the achievements of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South in both the United States and Japan. The Japanese publications include The Yearbook and Minutes of the Japanese Mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South , 1907-1908; the 1909 20th Anniversary Catalogue of the Kwansei Gakuin; The Japanese Student Bulletin, 1931; and a small pamphlet about the first Methodist church built in Kobe, Japan. There are also inscribed photographic portraits of friends and their families in Japan and less formal photographs of various members of the Newton and Underwood family.
The Addition of December 2006 consists of materials relating to activism and activist groups on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus and in the Chapel Hill community at large, including publications relating to activist groups, such as newsletters of the Chapel Hill Peace Center, Bread and Roses socialist community newsletters, issues of The Southern Patriot, and other printed materials.
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Primarily personal correspondence, financial and legal papers, photographs, and other materials, including school papers, newspaper clippings, a passport, and Masonic documents of George Ralph Marvell, a United States Navy officer; his wife, Anna Nippes Wynkoop Marvell, and their son, George Marvell, who also served as an officer in the Navy. Letters and other papers created prior to 1885 relate to Marvell's parents and other relatives.
Arrangement: chronological.
Chiefly family letters either to or from George Ralph Marvell, who was an officer in the United Navy. The correspondence begins with his entrance into the United States Naval Academy in 1885 and continues until his death in 1941. Marvell's major correspondents were his parents, Edward Tracy Marvell and Anna Congdon Wilbur Marvell; his siblings, Mary Marvell, M.D., and Edward I. Marvell, his wife, Anna Nippes Wynkoop Marvell, and eventually his son, George Marvell.
Letters to Marvell from his parents and siblings typically recount family news as well as items of interest from Fall River, Mass. Likewise, his wife's letters also concern life at home and eventually, their son George. In addition to addressing family matters, Marvell's letters contain descriptions of his extensive travels and various duty postings with the United States Navy. Similarly, after his graduation from the Naval Academy in 1917, George Marvell often wrote to his father about his career as a naval officer in the submarine service and later as a staff officer. After 1936, George often wrote to his father about the extensive renovations that he was directing at the family's farm in Pennsylvania.
Most of the correspondence written prior to 1885 falls into three categories. In the 1850s, Anna Congdon Wilbur received a number of business letters concerning agricultural properties that she owned in Ralls County, Mo. In the 1860s, Mary Marvel Sullings received letters concerning a law suit that she was pursuing in an attempt to gain control of her deceased husband's estate. Also in the 1860s, Edward Tracy Marvel, who was serving as a private in the 7th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment during the Civil War in defense of Washington, D.C., wrote home about camp life. Although Marvel did survive the war, the letters end abruptly in 1862.
Folder 1 |
1820-1861 |
Folder 2 |
1862-1884 |
Folder 3 |
1885 |
Folder 4-6
Folder 4Folder 5Folder 6 |
1886 |
Folder 7-9
Folder 7Folder 8Folder 9 |
1887 |
Folder 10-12
Folder 10Folder 11Folder 12 |
1888 |
Folder 13-14
Folder 13Folder 14 |
1889 |
Folder 15-16
Folder 15Folder 16 |
1890 |
Folder 17 |
1891-1895 |
Folder 18-19
Folder 18Folder 19 |
1896 |
Folder 20 |
1897 |
Folder 21 |
1901-1904 |
Folder 22 |
1904 |
Folder 23-24
Folder 23Folder 24 |
1906 |
Folder 25-29
Folder 25Folder 26Folder 27Folder 28Folder 29 |
1907 |
Folder 30-36
Folder 30Folder 31Folder 32Folder 33Folder 34Folder 35Folder 36 |
1908 |
Folder 37-41
Folder 37Folder 38Folder 39Folder 40Folder 41 |
1909 |
Folder 42 |
1910-1911 |
Folder 43-46
Folder 43Folder 44Folder 45Folder 46 |
1912 |
Folder 47-52
Folder 47Folder 48Folder 49Folder 50Folder 51Folder 52 |
1913 |
Folder 53 |
1914 |
Folder 54 |
1917-1919 |
Folder 55 |
1920-1922 |
Folder 56 |
1923 |
Folder 57 |
1924 |
Folder 58 |
1925 |
Folder 59 |
1926 |
Folder 60 |
1927-1929 |
Folder 61 |
1932-1934 |
Folder 62 |
1934-1935 |
Folder 63-64
Folder 63Folder 64 |
1936 |
Folder 65 |
1937 |
Folder 66-67
Folder 66Folder 67 |
1938 |
Folder 68-69
Folder 68Folder 69 |
1939 |
Folder 70-71
Folder 70Folder 71 |
1940 |
Folder 72 |
1941 |
Folder 73-74
Folder 73Folder 74 |
Undated |
Folder 75 |
Notes and letter fragments |
Arrangement: by type.
Mainly receipts, legal documents, financial and business correspondence, federal income tax returns, financial statements, property files, and older historical family materials of a financial or legal nature. The bulk of the materials concerns the affairs of George and Anna Marvell. There is a complete set of federal income tax filings, 1913-1939. There are extensive property files that include property surveys as well as an inventory and history of the Marvell's most significant belongings. Finally, there are various materials relating to the settlement of the estate of Anna Marvell's father, Henry Wynkoop.
The older documents in this series consist of three 18th-century financial letters; a number of late 19th-century receipts; land grants issued in 1837 for property in Palmyra County, Mo.; and a variety of legal pleadings and documents, some of which relate to Mary Marvel Sullings's legal case to gain control of her deceased husband's estate.
Folder 76 |
Receipts, 1892-1917 |
Folder 77 |
Legal documents for Plummer v. Marvell, 1915 |
Folder 78-80
Folder 78Folder 79Folder 80 |
Marvell federal income tax filings, 1913-1939 |
Folder 81-82
Folder 81Folder 82 |
Property file, Jamestown, R.I., 1936-1940 |
Folder 83 |
Property survey, Annapolis, Md., 1937 |
Folder 84 |
House inventory and history of items, Annapolis, Md., 1933-1938 |
Folder 85 |
Letters from the Henry Wynkoop Trust, 1931-1939 |
Folder 86 |
Statements from the Henry Wynkoop Trust, 1931-1940 |
Folder 87 |
List of securities from the Henry Wynkoop Trust, 1939 |
Folder 88 |
Historical family financial documents, 1764-1793 |
Folder 89 |
Historical family receipts, 1850-1887 |
Folder 90 |
Historical family legal documents, 1835-1866 |
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-5098/1 |
Oversize materials |
Arrangement: by type.
Newspaper clippings, school papers and report cards, Masonic documents, a U.S. passport, miscellaneous writings, pencil sketches, blank 19th-century European postcards, and a genealogical research notebook.
Folder 91 |
Newspaper clippings, 1910s-1920s |
Folder 92 |
School papers, United States Naval Academy, 1885-1888 |
Folder 93 |
Honors, Passport, and a Masonic membership certificate, 1891-1921 |
Folder 94 |
Typescript copies of writings |
Folder 95 |
School papers, 1908 |
Folder 96 |
Pencil sketches |
Folder 97 |
Genealogical research notebook |
Folder 98-99
Folder 98Folder 99 |
Blank picture postcards, 1897-1911 |
Folder 100 |
Pamphlets and other printed materials |
Arrangement: by subject.
Family and travel photographs taken by the Marvell and Wynkoop families. Photographs of George Ralph Marvell and his son, George Marvell, include pictures taken aboard United States Navy vessels, including surface ships as well as submarines. There are extensive photographs of various Asian locales that were taken during Admiral Marvell's assignments to China, 1912-1913, and the Philippine Islands, 1922-1924.
Image Folder PF-5098/1-2
PF-5098/1PF-5098/2 |
George Ralph Marvell, 1880s-1930s |
Photograph Album PA-5099/1 |
Photograph album of the George Ralph Marvell family, 1910s -1920s |
Image Folder PF-5098/3 |
Anna Nippes Wynkoop Marvell, 1880s-1930s |
Image Folder PF-5098/4 |
George Marvell, 1890s-1920s |
Image Folder PF-5098/5 |
Marvell family photographs, 1840s-1930s |
Special Format Image SF-P-5098/1 |
Photographic portrait of four young women |
Image Folder PF-5098/6 |
Wynkoop family photographs, 1890s-1920s |
Image Folder PF-5098/7 |
China and the Philippine Islands, 1920s-1930s |
Oversize Image Folder OP-PF-5098/1 |
Oversize photographs |
Arrangement: by type.
Administrative, published, and research materials of the North Carolina China Council from 1977 until 1989. The administrative materials include newsletters, annual reports, minutes from meetings, memoranda, funding and grant proposals, and a correspondence file. The bulk of the research materials relates to the Council's traveling exhibit and presentation, North Carolina's China Connections, 1840-1949. The research materials include an extensive collection of photographs, including prints, slides and some negatives, audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with various North Carolinians who worked or lived in China, video tape recordings of exhibit presentations and interviews, and film footage taken by various interviewees in China during the first half of the 20th century. There are also exhibit publications, including pamphlets, flyers, posters, and a bound print version of the text and photographs that make up the exhibit. There are also research materials, audio recordings, and publications of other Council conferences and events on topics such as the One-Child Policy and United States-China trade.
Arrangement: by type.
Newsletters, annual reports, minutes from meetings, memoranda, and a general correspondence file, relate to the normal administrative functions and routines carried out by the staff and officers of the North Carolina China Council from 1977 until 1989.
Folder 101 |
Newsletter: China Notes, 1978-1984 |
Folder 102 |
Annual reports, 1977-1985 |
Folder 103 |
Organizational materials: Minutes and memoranda, 1977-1983 |
Folder 104 |
Correspondence, 1978-1989 |
Folder 105 |
National China Council of the Asia Society, 1978-1987 |
Arrangement: by type.
Administrative and research materials for the North Carolina China Council's traveling exhibit and presentation, North Carolina's China Connections, 1840-1949. This exhibit focused on the roles North Carolinians played in China as missionaries, tobacco businessmen, and soldiers. This subseries includes funding and grant proposals, correspondence, exhibit publications, including pamphlets, flyers, posters, and a bound print version of the exhibit, as well as research materials concerning North Carolina's various ties to China. The research materials include an extensive collection of photographs, including prints, slides and some of their negatives, audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with various North Carolinians who worked or lived in China, video tape recordings of exhibit presentations and interviews, and film footage taken by various interviewees in China during the first half of the 20th century.
Arrangement: by type.
Organizational papers, research materials, audio recordings, and publications of various China Council conferences and events.
Folder 136 |
Research on Charles Jones Soong |
Audiocassette C-5098/24 |
Audiotape of a lecture on Charles Jones Soong by Professor Burton Beers |
Folder 137 |
Publication: "Resources on China in North Carolina," 1980 |
Folder 138 |
Conference: Scholarly exchange between the People's Republic of China and the United States, 1978-1983 |
Audiocassette C-5098/18-19
C-5098/18C-5098/19 |
Audiotapes of lectures delivered at the conference on scholarly exchange between the People's Republic of China and the United States |
Folder 139 |
Conference: Trade between the People's Republic of China and the United States, 1979-1980 |
Audiocassette C-5098/33-38
C-5098/33C-5098/34C-5098/35C-5098/36C-5098/37C-5098/38 |
Audio tapes of lectures delivered at the conference on trade between the People's Republic of China and the United States |
Folder 140 |
Conference: China's One Child policy, 1984-1985 |
Folder 141 |
China in Film, 1986 |
Folder 142 |
Other sponsored events |
Folder 143 |
Charlotte Observer series on China, 1980 |
Arrangement: by type.
Other materials relating to this series can be found in the Addition of December 2006.
Lawrence D. Kessler, professor emeritus of Chinese history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was actively involved in radical politics. His papers contain internal organizational materials and public documents of the North Carolina Legal Defense Fund and the Chapel Hill chapter of the New University Conference. The organizational papers include minutes from meetings, annual reports, press releases, project proposals, correspondence, fund raising letters, and posters. The public documents include pamphlets, position papers, and serial publications of the New University Conference.
Arrangement: by type and chronological.
Materials relating to the North Carolina Legal Defense Fund, which is described as a provider of financial assistance for the legal defense of people accused of crimes associated with political opposition to "militarism, racism, sexism, imperialism, and other injustices," include minutes from meetings, annual reports, press releases, project proposals, correspondence, and fund raising letters.
Folder 144 |
North Carolina Legal Defense Fund, Inc., 1972-1988 |
Arrangement: by type and chronological.
Materials relating to the Chapel Hill chapter of the New University Conference, which was founded in 1968 as a radical political activist organization of faculty, students, and others that sought to transform American academic life, include position papers and pamphlets, meeting posters, progress reports, agenda, correspondence and serial publications.
Folder 145 |
New University Conference, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapter, 1968-1971 |
Folder 146-151
Folder 146Folder 147Folder 148Folder 149Folder 150Folder 151 |
Newsletter,1968-1972 |
Folder 152-153
Folder 152Folder 153 |
Position papers and other pamphlets, 1968-1970 |
Folder 154 |
Women's newsletter and other pamphlets related to women's issues, 1970-1972 |
Folder 155 |
The Radical Teacher, 1969 |
Folder 156-157
Folder 156Folder 157 |
Radical Historian Caucus Newsletter, 1970-1976 |
Acquisitions Information: Acc. 20230331.2.
Contains documents pertaining to Kessler's work on a book about the connections between the North Carolina and Chinese tobacco industries with coauthor Burton Floyd Beers (1927-2016), a history professor of at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C. The main focus of the papers is about history and workings of the British American Tobacco company. The documents consist of a wide variety of materials including printed and annotated news and academic articles about tobacco, cigarettes, North Carolina tobacco, and the Chinese agriculture industry; conference reports; chapter drafts; notes on interviews or source readings; correspondence between Kessler and Beers related to drafts and sources; and obituary material for Beers. There are extensive handwritten notes, some of where are written on index cards and staple bound. At least one document is written entirely in Chinese.
Folder 292 |
A-BealResources on British American Tobacco. |
Folder 293-294 |
BAT News and notesIssues of BAT News, 1983-1984; tables depicting Chinese imports and value in NC, 1923-1941; notes on Chinese Tobacco Production; correspondence from Larry to Burton Floyd Beers; and book chapter notes. |
Folder 295 |
Beers-BunnThesis/dissertation research draft, 1979; research materials regarding Chinese tobacco and smoking; article drafts for the News & Observer; Burton Beers conference articles; interview with James I. Bennett; and newspaper articles about Rocky Mount's Fred and Christina Bunn who were imprisoned in Shanghai in 1943. |
Folder 296 |
CResearch materials and notes about the Chinese agricultural economy. |
Folder 297-298 |
D-GNotes regarding: how tobacco connects to Africa; Duke's tobacco; and Chinese identity during Jim Crow. |
Folder 299-301 |
H-RResearch materials on tobacco profits; magazine articles; notes on special collection archival materials at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University realted to tobacco and China. Also includes inerviews conducted by Burton Beers. |
Folder 302-303 |
S-ZNotes relating to Duke Homestead, the Southern Tobacco Journal, and tobacco in China. |
Folder 304 |
Branchhead Boys' draftsDrafts of book chapters. |
Folder 305 |
Tobacco personnelWorking list of tobacco leaf personnel, both independent and BAT leaf suppliers, in China. |
Folder 306 |
Miscellaneous notesBook notes for Kessler and slight correspondence between Kessler and Beers. |
Folder 307 |
Tobacco in NC Today (1959) |
Folder 308 |
North Carolina-China Trade (Tobacco) |
Folder 309 |
China - maps - tobacco book |
Folder 310 |
Britannica Arts - Honah, Shangtung, Anhwei Tobacco (general) |
Folder 311 |
Branchhead Boys' sources |
Folder 312 |
Burt Beers correspondence - tobacco book |
Folder 313-315 |
Notes on tobacco book |
Arrangement: by type.
Family letters received or written by Ruth Elizabeth Newton Underwood, the unpublished writings of John C. Calhoun Newton, United States and Japanese publications of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and photographs of the Newton family and their friends from Kobe, Japan.
Arrangement: chronological.
Family letters received or written by Ruth Elizabeth Newton Underwood. Her main correspondents were her parents, John C. Calhoun Newton and Letty Lay Newton of Kobe, Japan, and her husband, Emory Marvin Underwood of Atlanta, Ga.
The bulk of the letters are between Ruth Newton Underwood and her parents. With a few exceptions from 1888 until 1923, Ruth Newton's parents resided at the Kwansei Gakuin, a Methodist Episcopal secondary school in Kobe, Japan. Although their correspondence is predominately concerned with daily life and family news, it also contains references to current events such as the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, World War I, and Japanese involvement in North East Asia. Additionally, the letters written by John C. Calhoun Newton, who served in various administrative and teaching positions at the Kwansei Gakuin, often make reference to the school's affairs, its relationship with the broader Japanese world, and other Methodist missionaries such as Bishop Walter R. Lambuth, who were serving in Japan and China.
Ruth Newton's correspondence with Emory Marvin Underwood, who became an lawyer and federal judge, begins during her college years at the Nashville College for Young Ladies and continues during a teaching stint at the Littleton Female College, Littleton, N.C., and a two-year stay with her parents in Japan. After their marriage in the summer of 1905, there are fewer letters, but during Underwood's service, 1919-1920, as the general solicitor for the United States Railroad Administration in Washington, D.C., their correspondence resumed. In general, these are personal letters devoted to family matters and concerns, but there is also mention of Underwood's legal career and the couple's broader activities in organizations such as Herbert Hoover's European Relief Drive and the Commission on Interracial Cooperation.
Folder 158 |
1888-1889 |
Folder 159 |
1890-1892 |
Folder 160 |
1893 |
Folder 161 |
1894 |
Folder 162 |
1895 |
Folder 163 |
1896 |
Folder 164 |
1897 |
Folder 165-166
Folder 165Folder 166 |
1898 |
Folder 167-169
Folder 167Folder 168Folder 169 |
1899 |
Folder 170 |
1890s |
Folder 171-175
Folder 171Folder 172Folder 173Folder 174Folder 175 |
1900 |
Folder 176-187
Folder 176Folder 177Folder 178Folder 179Folder 180Folder 181Folder 182Folder 183Folder 184Folder 185Folder 186Folder 187 |
1901 |
Folder 188-195
Folder 188Folder 189Folder 190Folder 191Folder 192Folder 193Folder 194Folder 195 |
1902 |
Folder 196-200
Folder 196Folder 197Folder 198Folder 199Folder 200 |
1903 |
Folder 201-204
Folder 201Folder 202Folder 203Folder 204 |
1904 |
Folder 205-209
Folder 205Folder 206Folder 207Folder 208Folder 209 |
1905 |
Folder 210-214
Folder 210Folder 211Folder 212Folder 213Folder 214 |
1906 |
Folder 215-217
Folder 215Folder 216Folder 217 |
1907 |
Folder 218 |
1909-1911 |
Folder 219-221
Folder 219Folder 220Folder 221 |
1912 |
Folder 222-224
Folder 222Folder 223Folder 224 |
1913 |
Folder 225 |
1914 |
Folder 226 |
1915 |
Folder 227-228
Folder 227Folder 228 |
1916 |
Folder 229 |
1917 |
Folder 230-231
Folder 230Folder 231 |
1918 |
Folder 232-234
Folder 232Folder 233Folder 234 |
1919 |
Folder 235-237
Folder 235Folder 236Folder 237 |
1920 |
Folder 238-241
Folder 238Folder 239Folder 240Folder 241 |
1921 |
Folder 242-243
Folder 242Folder 243 |
1922 |
Folder 244 |
1923 |
Folder 245 |
1929 |
Folder 246 |
1931 |
Folder 247 |
1932-1957 |
Folder 248 |
Letter fragments, enclosed writings, and notes |
Folder 249 |
Calling cards |
Arrangement: by type.
Primarily, the writings of John C. Calhoun Newton. These works consist of sermons, prayer meeting talks, lecture notes on ethics delivered to the students of the Kwansei Gakuin, and drafts of a larger work devoted to the subject of christian ethics. Also included are newspaper clippings about the Newton and Underwood families; several eulogy-like tributes of John C. Calhoun Newton and his wife, Letty Lay Newton; and several financial receipts.
Folder 250 |
Index of sermons |
Folder 251 |
Notebook of sermons, 1880 |
Folder 252 |
Notebook of sermons, 1880-1881 |
Folder 253 |
Notebook of sermons and prayer meeting talks, undated |
Folder 254 |
Sermons and talks, 1880s |
Folder 255-256
Folder 255Folder 256 |
Sermons, 1902 |
Folder 257 |
Notebook of lectures on ethics for the second year classes |
Folder 258 |
Bound volume of lectures on ethics delivered to divinity students of Kwansei Gakuin |
Folder 259 |
Outline of coursework for students of Kwansei Gakuin |
Folder 260 |
Notebook of essays, 1920s |
Folder 261 |
Notebook of notes on Chinese history and sermons |
Folder 262-267
Folder 262Folder 263Folder 264Folder 265Folder 266Folder 267 |
Manuscript of a text on christian ethics, 1920s |
Folder 268-270
Folder 268Folder 269Folder 270 |
Miscellaneous writings, 1920s |
Folder 271 |
Receipts, 1901-1922 |
Folder 272 |
Tributes to John C. Calhoun Newton and Letty Lay Newton, 1931 |
Folder 273 |
Newspaper clippings, 1890s-1930s |
Arrangement: by type.
Publications commemorating communal events or the achievements of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South in both the United States and Japan. The United States publications relate primarily to meetings, such as the 6th Ecumenical Conference of Methodism in 1931 and the Union Bi-Centenary Celebration of 1903. The Japanese publications include The Yearbook and Minutes of the Japanese Mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South , 1907-1908; the 1909 20th Anniversary Catalogue of the Kwansei Gakuin; The Japanese Student Bulletin of 1931; and a small pamphlet about the first Methodist church built in Kobe, Japan. There are also several printed materials that relate to events held at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., in the 1890s.
Folder 274 |
Pamphlets related to events at Vanderbilt University, 1896 |
Folder 275 |
United States Methodist publications, 1903-1931 |
Folder 276-277
Folder 276Folder 277 |
Japanese Methodist publications, 1907-1931 |
Folder 278 |
Japanese postcards |
Folder 279 |
Miscellaneous printed materials |
Arrangement: by type.
Inscribed portraits of friends and their families in Japan, less formal pictures of various members of the Newton and Underwood families, especially John C. Calhoun Newton on the grounds of the Kwansei Gakuin, and color tinted photographs of Japanese landscapes and women.
Image Folder PF-5098/45-47
PF-5098/45PF-5098/46PF-5098/47 |
Inscribed portraits of friends and associates in Japan, 1900s-1920s |
Image Folder PF-5098/48 |
Newton and Underwood family pictures, 1890s-1920s |
Image Folder PF-5098/49 |
Tinted photographs of Japan |
Oversize Image Folder OP-PF-5098/1 |
Oversize photographs |
Arrangement: by type of material.
These materials have not been integrated into the arrangement of the original deposit, but relate to those that can be found in Series. 3, Lawrence D. Kessler Papers. The donor's folder titles for folders 280 through 285 have been retained.
Materials relating to activism and activist groups on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus and in the Chapel Hill community at large. The addition consists chiefly of publications relating to activist groups, such as newsletters of the Chapel Hill Peace Center, Bread and Roses socialist community newsletters, issues of The Southern Patriot, and other printed materials.
Folder 280 |
Black Student Movement Demands Struggle |
Folder 281 |
Food Service Workers Strike |
Folder 282 |
Football at UNC |
Folder 283 |
New University Conference |
Folder 284 |
Radical Activity, miscellaneous |
Folder 285 |
Other papers |
Folder 286 |
Southern labor movement publications |
Folder 287 |
Chapel Hill Peace Center newsletters and two issues of The Left Heel |
Folder 288 |
Bread and Roses newsletters |
Folder 289-291
Folder 289Folder 290Folder 291 |
The Southern Patriot |
Items separated include photographs (P-5098), a photograph album (PA-5098), audiotapes (C-5098), film (F-5098), and videotapes (VT-5098).
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