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| Genre/Form: | Account books Diaries Dictionaries Biography Correspondence |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Rufus Anderson; James Burrill Angell; William Ashmore; Benjamin Parke Avery; Samuel Putnam Avery; John Russell Bartlett; Clifford Bender; Howard S Bird; H Blodget; Maurice Bloomfield; William Jones Boone, bp.; John Bowring, Sir; William Henry Brewer; E C Bridgman; Samuel Robbins Brown; J Ross Browne; Pearl S Buck; Anson Burlingame; Edward L Burlingame; John Canaday; Lewis Cass; Tim Coward; George William Curtis; Caleb Cushing; James Dwight Dana; William Dean; James Denby; Franklin Bowditch Dexter; Timothy Dwight; Daniel Cady Eaton; William Maxwell Evarts; Ernest Francisco Fenollosa; Hamilton Fish; George Park Fisher; Thomas McKey Folds; John Watson Foster; Elizabeth Williams Garstin; Daniel Coit Gilman; Chauncey Goodrich; Asa Gray; Sophia Gardner Williams Grosvenor Gray; Henry Fletcher Hance; A P Happer; Paul Haupt; Joseph Henry; J C Hepburn; George Frisbie Hoar; Chester Holcombe; William S Holt; William Fowler Hopson; Samuel Reynolds House; Henry Ivison; A V Williams Jackson; Henry Harris Jessup; Adoniram Judson; J G Kerr; William Lockhart; Frederick Ferdinand Low; Josephine Shaw Lowell; Hamilton Wright Mabie; William L Marcy; W A P Martin; C W Mateer; John Robert Morrison; William Muirhead; Gideon Nye; George Talbot Olyphant; Ray Palmer; Peter Parker; Harry Parkes, Sir; Matthew Calbraith Perry; Thomas B Reed; William B Reed; T Lawrason Riggs; Natalis Rondot; Charles Scribner; Julius H Seelye; Frederick William Seward; George F Seward; William Henry Seward; Gustav Seyffarth; Devello Z Sheffield; Benjamin Silliman; Arthur Henderson Smith; William Speer; Charles Alfred Stanley; Edward W Syle; Josiah Tattnall; William K Townsend; Selah Burr Treat; Joseph Hopkins Twichell; T F Wade; William Hayes Ward; James C Watson; William Dwight Whitney; Charles Augustus Williams; Fanny Hapgood Wayland Williams; Frederick Wells Williams; Henry Dwight Williams; Robert Stanton Williams; S Wells Williams; Sarah Walworth Williams; Talcott Williams; Wayland Wells Williams; William Perkins Williams; Theodore Dwight Woolsey; M T Yates; Wing Yung; Williams family. |
| Document Type: | Archival Material |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
S Wells Williams |
| OCLC Number: | 702154081 |
| Description: | 22.25 linear feet (33 boxes) |
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Abstract:
The papers include correspondence (comprising over half of the collection), journals, manuscripts of Samuel Wells Williams's Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese Language, and an annotated copy of the 1848 edition of his The Middle Kingdom, themes and lecture notes by Frederick Wells Williams, diaries, newspaper clippings, articles on China, maps, and pictures. The bulk of the correspondence relates to S. W. Williams, missionary, diplomat, and sinologue. The period between 1845 and 1855 has extensive correspondence with missionaries and with James Dwight Dana and Matthew C. Perry, whom Williams accompanied on his mission to open Japan and on his return visit in 1854. Williams's letters to friends and family comment on progress made and their reception in Japan. In 1856 Williams became secretary and interpreter to the American Legation in China and many of the letters refer to Chinese problems of the following twenty years. His correspondents include, in addition to Dana and Perry, Anson Burlingame, Hamilton Fish, Asa Gray, Frederick Low, William Bradford Reed, and William Henry Seward. The remaining correspondence covers the period 1885 to 1939, encompassing the correspondence of F. W. Williams, Yale professor, and Wayland Wells Williams, writer.
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- Mabie, Hamilton Wright, -- 1846-1916.
- Marcy, William L. -- (William Learned), -- 1786-1857.
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- Mateer, C. W. -- (Calvin Wilson), -- 1836-1908.
- Morrison, John Robert, -- 1814-1843.
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