Finding Aid to the Yoshiko Uchida papers, 1903-1994 (bulk 1942-1992)

Processed by Kriss R. Basil and Jane Bassett; completed by Mary Morganti

The Bancroft Library.

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, California, 94720-6000

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Findin Aid to the Yoshiko Uchida Papers, 1903-1994 (bulk 1942-1992)

Collection number: BANC MSS 86/97 c

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, California

Contact Information:

The Bancroft Library.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu

Processed by:: Kriss R. Basil and Jane Bassett
Completed by:: Mary Morganti
Date Completed:: March 1998
Encoded by:: Xiuzhi Zhou

Collection Summary

Collection Title: Yoshiko Uchida Papers,

Date (inclusive): 1903-1994

Date (bulk): (bulk 1942-1992)

Collection Number: BANC MSS 86/97 c

Creator: Uchida, Yoshiko

Extent: Number of containers: 67 boxes, 1 carton, 2 v., 2 oversize folders, 14 oversize boxes, 1 portfolio linear ft: 32 25 digital objects

Repository: The Bancroft Library.

Berkeley, California 94720-6000

Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Abstract: Consists of Uchida's correspondence, writings, and professional files, along with a small amount of personal and family papers, providing insight into the life of a successful and distinguished author, as well as her experiences as a Japanese-American growing up in Berkeley, Calif., and internment camps during the war years. Uchida's correspondence chiefly concerns business with publishers and other professionals in the literary publishing trade, and includes a large amount of fan mail. Her writings contain manuscripts of both published and unpublished works, including books, short stories, folktales, articles, and poetry. Her professional papers contain biographical and autobiographical information, as well as her bibliographies, awards, notes, and transcripts for appearances and speeches, interviews, and other professional activities.

Uchida's personal papers contain writings she did as a child, with other memorabilia, as well as diaries and journals, personal documents and miscellaneous papers, as well as memorabilia from several memorial services and exhibits held after her death. The Uchida family papers include correspondence among the immediate family, along with a few papers of her parents, Takashi ("Dwight") and Iku Uchida. Of special interest are those materials concerning relocation and redress, which include correspondence written by family members during their internment, scrapbooks, diaries, drawings and watercolors, and miscellaneous publications regarding internment.

Languages Represented: English

Information for Researchers

Access

PARTIALLY RESTRICTED COLLECTION: Permission of the curator required for use of boxes 65-67. Inquiries concerning these materials should be directed, in writing, to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library.

Publication Rights

Copyrights have been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted, in writing, to the appropriate curator or the Head of Public Services for forwarding. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and the copyright.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Yoshiko Uchida papers, BANC MSS 86/97 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Related Collections

University of Oregon, Library. Eugene, Oregon. Yoshiko Uchida Collection.

University of Minnesota. Children's Literature Research Collections: Kerlan Collection. University Libraries, Minneapolis, Minn.

Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, Calif.

Material Cataloged Separately

Printed works transferred to the book collection of The Bancroft Library.

Photographs transferred to Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1986/059--PIC)

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

The Yoshiko Uchida Papers were given to The Bancroft Library by Yoshiko Uchida in increments beginning in 1984. The final addition to her papers was made by the Estate of Yoshiko Uchida in December 1992.

Biography

Yoshiko Uchida was born in Alameda, California in 1921, the second daughter of Takashi ("Dwight") and Iku Umegaki Uchida. Dwight Uchida immigrated to the United States from Japan in 1903 and worked for the San Francisco offices of Mitsui and Company, where he eventually became a manager. Iku Umegaki, the eldest daughter of a prefectural governor of Japan, immigrated to the U.S. in 1916 to marry Dwight Uchida. Both were graduates of Doshisha University, one of the early Christian universities of Japan, and were early and active members of the Sycamore Congregational Church in El Cerrito, Calif.

Uchida and her older sister, Keiko ("Kay"), grew up in Berkeley, Calif. By Uchida's own account, her family was close-knit and supportive. The written word was very important to Uchida's parents: her mother wrote poetry, the thirty-one syllable Japanese tanka, and her father was a prolific correspondent. Uchida's own interest in writing began early. At the age of ten, she wrote stories such as "Jimmy Chipmunk and His Friends" and "Willie the Squirrel" on brown wrapping paper. Uchida attended Longfellow School in Berkeley and University High School in Oakland. She graduated with honors from the University of California in 1942, with a B.A. in English, Philosophy, and History.

Uchida, however, was unable to attend her graduation ceremonies. After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in December 1941 and the United States entered World War II, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, forcing the removal of all persons of Japanese descent (both American citizens and non-citizens) living on the western coast of the United States into centralized detention camps. Dwight Uchida was arrested, detained, and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp in Missoula, Montana. Uchida and her mother and sister had only ten days to pack all their possessions and vacate the house where they had lived for fifteen years. In May 1942, they were removed to the Tanforan Racetrack Relocation Center, where Yoshiko received her university diploma in the horse stall that served as temporary barracks for the evacuees.

Eventually, Dwight Uchida was allowed to join his family at Tanforan, and in September 1942, the Uchida family was transferred to the Topaz Relocation Camp in the Utah desert. In May 1943, both Yoshiko and Kay were able to leave the relocation camp. Kay, who had a degree in child development, left to work in the nursery school of the Department of Education of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Yoshiko, with the help of the National Student Relocation Council, left to attend Smith College in Northampton, Mass., where she was awarded a graduate fellowship and received a Masters in Education. Dwight and Iku Uchida were eventually sponsored to leave Topaz for Salt Lake City, and finally settled in Philadelphia before the end of the war.

After graduation from Smith College, Uchida taught elementary school at a small Quaker school on the outskirts of Philadelphia. She soon found that she had no time to devote to writing and also became ill with mononucleosis. She moved to New York City, where her sister was teaching in a private school, and worked as a secretary during the day to keep her evenings free for writing. Uchida wrote short stories and submitted them to magazines, but met with little success until she discovered her niche as a children's author. In 1949, her first book, The Dancing Kettle, was published, followed in 1951 by New Friends for Susan.

In 1952, Uchida was awarded a Ford Foundation Foreign Study and Research Fellowship to Japan. While there, Uchida learned about Japanese folk art from the three prominent men who founded the Japanese Folk Art Movement: the philosopher, Soetsu Yanagi, and master potters, Shoji Hamada and Kanjiro Kawai. Uchida wrote a series of feature articles about the Folk Art Movement for the Nippon Times, as well as a monograph about Kanjiro Kawai. On her return to the U.S., she served as the west coast correspondent for Craft Horizons magazine.

After Uchida returned from Japan, she settled in Oakland, Calif., to care for her parents, who were both in poor health. Iku Uchida died in 1966, and Dwight Uchida followed in 1971. After her father's death, Uchida moved into her own apartment in Berkeley, where she lived and worked for the remainder of her life.

Over the course of her career, Uchida wrote more than forty published works. Her books include Journey to Topaz, Journey Home, and Desert Exile, which draw on her experiences during World War II; The Dancing Kettle, The Magic Listening Cap, and The Sea of Gold, which are compilations of folktales that she collected as a child and while in Japan; an autobiography, The Invisible Thread; and the adult novel, Picture Bride. In addition to writing, Uchida made personal appearances, gave talks and speeches, and answered the many letters from her fans.

Uchida was honored with many awards, including the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, two Commonwealth Club of California Juvenile Book Award Medals, the University of Oregon Distinguished Service Award, the California Japanese Alumni Association Award, the California Reading Association Award, the Japanese American of the Biennium Award, the Japanese American Citizen's League Award, the Nikkei in Education Award, and the Morris S. Rosenblatt Award from the Utah State Historical Society.

Uchida suffered from ill health during the later years of her life, which curtailed her writing and her public appearances. She died in Berkeley on June 21, 1992.

Scope and Content

The Yoshiko Uchida Papers, 1903-1994, consist of correspondence, writings, and her professional files, along with a small amount of personal and family papers, predominately from the years 1942 to 1992. The collection provides insight into the life of a successful and distinguished author, as well as the experience of a Japanese American citizen during a critical period in United States history. It offers information about Uchida's creative process as a writer, and also provides valuable primary historical information about the Japanese American experience during World War II.

Uchida was a private person; very little truly personal correspondence is found in the collection. Her general correspondence chiefly concerns business with publishers and other professionals in the literary publishing trade, and a large number of fan letters. Uchida's correspondence, however, reveals much about her tactful, polite, yet strong personality, and the habits of a hard-working writer. Uchida was a diligent and careful correspondent; she kept copies of her outgoing letters and took notes on the substance of her replies and telephone conversations.

Uchida's writings contain manuscripts of both published and unpublished works. Her published works are mainly books for children, while her unpublished works encompass a wider spectrum, including adult short stories, articles, and poetry. The collection reflects the changing currents in American culture in the latter part of the twentieth century, when literature written by and for minorities and women began to emerge and grow in importance.

Uchida's professional papers contain biographical and autobiographical information, as well as her bibliographies, awards, notes, and transcripts for appearances and speeches, interviews, and other professional activities. Her personal papers include writings she did as a child, with other memorabilia, as well as diaries and journals, personal documents, and the mass of information she gathered about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and other health issues during the last year of her life. Memorabilia from several memorial services and exhibits that were held after Uchida's death has also been added here.

The Uchida family papers include correspondence among the immediate family and contain letters Yoshiko wrote to her parents while she was in Japan during a Ford Fellowship. She kept her parents' legal documents and notes about their funeral arrangements, as well as some of her mother's poems. Of special interest are the papers regarding relocation and redress. These include correspondence written by members of the Uchida family during their internment, scrapbooks, diaries, drawings and watercolors, and publications regarding internment, and as well as information Uchida collected on redress.

During the course of processing, some fragile originals have been restricted from routine use; photocopies of these documents have been made and placed in the collection for use.

Container List

Boxes 1-14; Carton 1; Oversize Box 13, folders 1- 2; Oversize Box 14;

SERIES 1: CORRESPONDENCE, 1947-1994, undated

Scope and Content Note

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically, and then chronologically, with incoming and outgoing correspondence inter-filed.

Divided into two sub-series: General Correspondence and Correspondence with Fans. Uchida often re-used paper to make carbon copies of her correspondence to others, so letters may be copied onto the versos of other letters, drafts, or other documents.

General Correspondence, including Uchida's correspondence with her publishers, contains handwritten and typewritten letters, both in original and carbon copies, telegrams, cards, postcards, and manuscript notes.

Correspondence with Fans is further divided into two sub-subseries: Schools and Individuals. Letters written by classes as a group activity are filed under Schools, while letters from both adults and children who did not know Uchida personally but who wrote to express their appreciation of her work, are found under Individuals. Both are arranged first by state of origin, and then, where applicable, by city and school name, with letters from the United States found before that of other countries. Correspondence with Fans contains handwritten and typed letters, cards, and children's art work.

Correspondence is also found in all the other series.

GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1947-1994

Box 1, folder 1

A miscellany 1970-89

folder 2

Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. 1979-81

folder 3

American Library Association [1982?]-85

folder 4

The American Mercury 1951

folder 5

Art News 1960

folder 6

Asian American Arts Projects 1977-83

folder 7

The Atlantic Monthly 1950-55

folder 8-17

Atheneum 1977-87

folder 18

B miscellany 1949-91, undated

Box 2, folder 1

The Bancroft Library 1984-86

folder 2

Bauer, Caroline Feller 1984-89

folder 3

Beacham Publishing 1988-90

folder 4

Bridges, Noriko Sawada 1983-86

folder 5

Boyle, Kay, 1902- 1978-92

folder 6

C miscellany 1971-92

folder 7

California Department of Education 1986-88

folder 8

California Monthly 1966-83

folder 9

Carnival Press 1983-84

folder 10-19

Charles Scribner's Sons 1951-83

folder 20

Charm 1951-52

folder 21

Chikuma Shobo Publishing Company 1983

Box 3, folder 1

Classmate Magazine 1985-92

folder 2

Cobblestone Publishing, Inc. 1985

folder 3-4

Craft Horizons 1956-67

folder 5-6

Creative Arts Book Company 1983-92

folder 7

Curtis Brown, Ltd. 1973-82, undated

folder 8

D miscellany 1982-91

folder 9

De Forest, Louise 1956-68, undated

folder 10

De Patta, Margaret, 1903-1964 1959-62

folder 11

E miscellany 1958-88

folder 12

The Economy Company 1983

folder 13

Eltse, Ralph R. 1965-66

folder 14

E.P. Dutton (Firm) 1987-91

folder 15

Esquire 1952

folder 16

F miscellany 1973-88

folder 17

The Far East 1955

folder 18

Filmedia 1976-78

folder 19

Forberg, Ati 1972-83

folder 20

Friendship Press 1955-85

folder 21

G miscellany 1981-88, undated

folder 22

Gakugei-Shorin 1990-91

folder 23

Gale Research Company 1983-92

folder 24

Geisel, Helen P. 1953, undated

folder 25

Ginn and Company 1985-86, undated

folder 26

G.K. Hall & Company / Gregg Press 1980-82

folder 27

Greenwillow Books 1979-86

Box 4, folder 1

H miscellany 1952-92

folder 2

Hamada, Shoji, 1894-1978 undated

folder 3-4

Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich 1947-92, undated

folder 5

Harper & Row, Publishers 1977, 1983

folder 6

Harper's Bazaar 1951-52

folder 7

Harper's Magazine 1950-60, undated

folder 8

Honolulu Academy of Arts 1956

folder 9

Hosokawa, Bill 1972-85

folder 10-11

Houghton Mifflin Company 1983-92

folder 12

H.W. Wilson Company 1985

folder 13

Hyoronsha Publishing Co., Ltd. 1976

folder 14

I miscellany 1955-90

folder 15

Inouye, Daniel K., 1924- 1982

folder 16

Instructor Curriculum Materials 1981-82

folder 17

Intercultural Publications, Inc. 1953-55

folder 18

Iwanami Shoten 1977-90, undated

folder 19

J miscellany 1983, undated

folder 20

Jacaranda Wiley, Ltd. 1983-84

folder 21

Japan UNI Agency, Inc. 1987-90, undated

folder 22

Japanese American Citizens' League 1975-91

folder 23

Japanese American Curriculum Project 1971-91

folder 24

The Japanese American Library 1986-88

folder 25

Japanese American Relocation Project 1983-85

folder 26

Jones, John T., M.D. 1985-88

folder 27

Jukes, Mavis 1987-88

folder 28

Junior Literary Guild 1978-85

folder 29

K miscellany 1970-90

folder 30

Kawai, Kanjiro, 1890-1966 1957-59

folder 31

Kondo, George E. 1976-82, undated

Box 5, folder 1

L miscellany 1952, undated

folder 2

Langstroth, Libby 1982

folder 3

The Lion and the Lamb Peace Arts Center 1990-91

folder 4

M miscellany 1958-92, undated

folder 5

MacMillan Publishing Company 1987-92

folder 6

Mademoiselle 1949-52

folder 7

Margaret K. McElderry Books 1987-92

folder 8

Masuda, Kiyo 1981-83

folder 9

McCartney, Sedoris 1966-86

folder 10

Mizumura, Kazue 1964

folder 11

Motive 1951

folder 12

Museum of International Folk Art (N.M.) 1957

folder 13

N miscellany 1965-86, undated

folder 14

Nakamura, Toyo 1982-83

folder 15

Nakayama, Yoko 1990

folder 16

National Japanese American Historical Society 1990

folder 17

New Ark Productions 1987

folder 18

The New York Times Book Review 1986

folder 19

The New Yorker 1949-52

folder 20

Northland Press 1985-91, undated

folder 21

Nozaki, Kyoko N. 1991

folder 22

O miscellany 1958-90

folder 23

The Oakland Museum 1971

folder 24

Ohbayashi, Michiko 1988-89, undated

folder 25

Okazaki, Steven 1986-87

folder 26

P miscellany 1976-92

folder 27

Penguin (Firm) 1991

folder 28

Philomel Books 1990

folder 29

Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 1983-85

folder 30

Publisher's Press 1992

folder 31

R miscellany 1971-88

folder 32

Reader's Digest 1971-74

folder 33

Reader's Digest of Japan 1985-86

folder 34

Rice, Richard B. 1985-88

folder 35

RKB-Mainichi Broadcasting Co., Ltd. 1991-92

folder 36

Robinson, Charles, 1931 1975-78

folder 37

S miscellany 1950-92, undated

folder 38

Sammet, L. L. (Loy Luther) and Family 1982-88, undated

Box 6, folder 1-2

Scott, Foresman and Company 1974-94

folder 3

Science Research Associates, Inc. 1980-87

folder 4

Sekerak, Emil 1981-82

folder 5

Seko, Sachi 1982-83

folder 6-8

Simon and Schuster, Inc.

Fireside Books 1988-90

Silver Burdett Press [later Silver Burdet Ginn] 1990-93, undated

folder 9

Smithsonian Institution 1986-87

folder 10

Stoner, Bob 1988

folder 11

T miscellany 1955-92, undated

folder 12

Takenaka, Masao 1985-92

folder 13

Thomas Y. Crowell Company 1968-79

folder 14

Today's Woman 1952

folder 15

U miscellany 1955-88

folder 16

Ueki, Teruyo 1990-92

folder 17

United Methodist Church (U.S.) 1983-85, undated

folder 18

United States Army 1949-50

folder 19

[United States Congress] 1990-92

folder 20

[United States Presidents] 1973-91

folder 21

University of California, Davis, Office of the Chancellor 1982

folder 22

University of Minnesota. Kerlan Collection 1967-87, undated

Box 7, folder 1

University of Oregon 1981

folder 2-3

University of Oregon. Library 1968-87, undated

folder 4-6

University of Washington Press 1980-90

folder 7

Utah State Historical Society 1979-82, undated

folder 8

W miscellany 1971-90

folder 9

Weglyn, Michi, 1926- 1985-92

folder 10

Willis, Elizabeth Bayley 1982

folder 11

Winthrop, Elizabeth 1986-88

folder 12

Wolf, Harriet 1952-55

folder 13

Woman's Day 1949-52, undated

folder 14

World Book, Inc. 1984-85

Box 8, folder 1

Y miscellany 1955-83

folder 2

Yamaguchi Shoten 1983-89

folder 3

Yamashita, Karen Tei 1985

folder 4

Yanagi, Muneyoshi [Soetsu], 1889-1961 1954-60, undated

folder 5

Yardbird Publishing 1978-80

folder 6

Yoshida, Yukiko 1985-92, undated

folder 7

Yuasa, Hachiro, 1890- 1958-59

folder 8

Zemach, Margot 1985-86

folder 9

Yoshiko Uchida's Christmas letters 1989-91

folder 10-11

Unidentified correspondence, fragments 1952-92, undated

CORRESPONDENCE WITH FANS, 1957-1994, undated

Schools

Arkansas

Box 9, folder 1

Badgett Elementary School, Little Rock 1986

Arizona

folder 2

Willcox Middle School, Willcox 1992

California

folder 3-4

Cornell School, Albany 1985

folder 5

Marin School, Albany 1985

folder 6

John Marshall School, Anaheim 1987-89

folder 7

Columbus School, Berkeley 1981

folder 8-9

Daruma no Gakko, Berkeley 1980; 1990

folder 10

Emerson School, Berkeley 1986

folder 11-13

Longfellow School, Berkeley 1990-92

folder 14

Madera School, Berkeley 1972

folder 15

Malcolm X Intermediate School, Berkeley 1985

folder 16

George Washington School, Burbank 1985

folder 17-18

Lincoln School, Burlingame 1976

folder 19

Proctor Elementary School, Castro Valley 1994

folder 20

San Clemente School, Corte Madera 1975

folder 21

Jefferson Elementary, Eureka 1981

folder 22

Ardenwood School, Fremont 1992

folder 23

Ericson Elementary, Fresno 1989

folder 24-25

Golden Avenue School, Lemon Grove 1989-92

folder 26

East Avenue School, Livermore 1985

folder 27

Hoover Street School, Los Angeles 1987-92

folder 28

Lincoln Elementary School, Lynwood 1987

Box 10, folder 1-2

Mariposa Junior High, Mariposa 1991-92

folder 3

Phillips Brooks School, Menlo Park 1991

folder 4

Loma Verde School, Novato 1985

folder 5-6

Olive School, Novato 1985

folder 7-8

Pleasant Valley School, Novato 1981

folder 9

Rancho School, Novato 1983

folder 10

Montclair School, Oakland 1979

folder 11

Northern Lights School, Oakland 1992

folder 12

St. Cyril's School, Oakland 1989

folder 13

Prunedale School, Salinas 1986

folder 14

California Junior High School, San Francisco 1975

oversize Oversize Box 13, folder 1

California Junior High School, San Francisco 1975

Box 10, folder 15-16

Clarendon Alternative School, San Francisco 1982, 1984

folder 17

Columbus School, San Francisco 1977

folder 18

Commodore Stockton School, San Francisco 1991

folder 19

St. James School, San Francisco 1993

folder 20

Roosevelt School, San Leandro 1987

folder 21

Gault Elementary School, Santa Cruz 1989

folder 22

Avalon School, South San Francisco 1973

folder 23-24

[unidentified schools], Torrance 1989

folder 25-26

Willow Glen Elementary, Visalia 1991; 1992

folder 27

Golden State Middle School, West Sacramento 1989

folder 28

Gulf Ave. Elementary School, Wilmington 1986

Colorado

folder 29

Village East Community Elementary School, Aurora 1990

Connecticut

folder 30

Nichols School, Stratford 1993

Hawaii

oversize Oversize Box 14

Kahala School 1983

Box 10, folder 31

Kilawea Elementary, Honolulu 1983

Box 11, folder 1-3

Mililani Uka Elementary School, Mililani 1983-85

Idaho

folder 4

Malta Elementary School, Malta 1989

Illinois

folder 5

Greenbrook School, Hanover Park 1986

folder 6

St. Raymond School, Mt. Prospect 1992

folder 7

Middleton School, Skokie 1985

folder 8

Clarence Olson Elementary School, Woodstock 1986

Iowa

folder 9-10

Hoover Elementary School, Iowa City 1989; 1990

folder 11

Van Allen School, Mount Pleasant 1986

Kansas

folder 12

Andale Elementary School, Andale 1993

folder 13

[unidentified school], Clearwater 1986

folder 14

Munjor School, Hays 1986

folder 15

Sinai School, Kansas City 1986

folder 16

Tomahawk Elementary, Olathe 1986

folder 17

Franklin School, Wichita 1974

folder 18

Peterson School, Wichita 1981

Louisiana

folder 19

Mary Hines Elementary, Charenton undated

folder 20

Natalbany Baptist Christian School, Natalbany 1986

folder 21

N.S.U. Elementary, Natchitoches 1986

Maryland

folder 22

[unidentified school], Clarksburg 1987

folder 23-24

Darnestown Elementary School, Gaithersburg 1986; 1987

folder 25-26

Jones Lane Elementary School, Gaithersburg 1988; 1989

folder 27

Diamond Elementary School, Gaithersburg 1992

folder 28

Potomac Elementary School, Potomac 1981

folder 29

Dr. Brown Elementary School, Waldorf 1989

Massachusetts

Box 12, folder 1-5

Smith College Campus School, Northampton 1987-91

folder 6

Highland School, Pittfield 1994

folder 7-8

Michigan

Murphy School, Haslett 1984; 1986

folder 9

Tyler Elementary School, Livonia 1986

Mississippi

folder 10

EGGSTRA Program, Greenwood City Schools, Greenwood 1986

Missouri

folder 11

Platte City Middle School, Platte City 1994

Montana

folder 12

Deer Pool School, Colfalls 1987

Nebraska

folder 13

Dorchester Public School, Dorchester 1986

folder 14

[unidentified school], Grand Island 1990

New Jersey

folder 15

Newbury School, Howell 1986

folder 16

Anthony's Grammar School, Jersey City 1986

New Mexico

folder 17

Gosher Elementary School, Gosher 1993

New York

folder 18

Schwaebisch Hall Elementary School, New York 1986

folder 19

Enrico Fermi School, Rochester 1986

folder 20

PS38, Rosedale 1987

folder 21

Slingerlands School, Slingerlands 1990

Oregon

folder 22

Eastside School, Eugene 1990

folder 23

Spencer Butte Middle School, Eugene 1986

folder 24

Mount Pleasant Elementary School, Oregon City 1986

Pennsylvania

folder 25

[unidentified school], Lancaster 1986

South Dakota

folder 26

Buchanan School, Pierre 1986

Texas

folder 27

Johnson Elementary School, Bryan 1986

folder 28

Sam Houston Elementary School, Bryan 1987

folder 29

Valley Hi Elementary, San Antonio 1994

oversize Oversize Box 13, folder 1

Washington School, Sherman 1984

Virginia

Box 12, folder 30

Bedford Elementary School, Bedford 1981

Washington

folder 31

Lockwood Elementary, Bothell 1986

folder 32

The Intermediate School, Seattle 1990

folder 33

Tyee Park Elementary School, Tacoma 1981

Japan

folder 34

Toho-Gakuen, Tokyo 1983

folder 35

Tokyo Metropolitan Yamasashi High School, Tokyo 1986

Unknown Cities

folder 36

Libby and the Children of Room 13 1992

folder 37

McKee (?) School, 5th Grade undated

Individuals

Box 13, folder 1

Arkansas 1959-88

folder 2-4

California 1959-94

folder 5

Colorado 1974-89

folder 6

Connecticut 1967-87

folder 7

Delaware 1986

folder 8

Georgia 1986-89

folder 9

Hawaii 1968-88

folder 10

Idaho 1986

folder 11

Illinois 1962-92

folder 12

Indiana 1972-94

folder 13

Iowa 1957-88

folder 14

Kansas 1959-88

folder 15

Kentucky 1970-88

folder 16

Louisiana 1967

folder 17

Maine 1986-89

folder 18

Maryland 1966-92

folder 19

Massachusetts 1972-91

folder 20

Michigan 1968-92

folder 21

Minnesota 1969-91

folder 22

Mississippi 1984-87

folder 23

Missouri 1965-89

folder 24

Nebraska 1971-91

folder 25

New Hampshire 1975

folder 26

New Jersey 1961-92

folder 27

New Mexico 1972-87

Box 14, folder 1

New York 1957-94

folder 2

North Carolina 1982-88

folder 3

North Dakota 1969-72

folder 4

Ohio 1960-90

folder 5

Oklahoma 1959-89

folder 6

Oregon 1962-86

folder 7

Pennsylvania 1965-94

folder 8

South Carolina 1984

folder 9

South Dakota 1986-88

folder 10

Tennessee 1982-92

folder 11

Texas 1984-90

folder 12

Utah 1973-86

folder 13

Vermont 1973-79

folder 14

Virginia 1972-91

folder 15

Washington 1982-93

folder 16

Washington, D.C. 1984

folder 17

Wisconsin 1959-92

folder 18

Wyoming 1985-88

folder 19

Canada 1970-88

folder 20

Japan 1967

folder 21

Marshall Islands 1988

folder 22

Russia 1992

folder 23

Spain 1985

folder 24

Unidentified 1957-90

oversize Oversize Box 13, folder 2

Drawings by Erin Paanenen and various children 1975, undated

oversize Oversize, folder 1 C

Drawings by Erin Paanenen and various children 1975, undated

Ctn. 1, folder

Paper Cranes undated

Boxes 15-49; Oversize Boxes 1-11; Oversize Box 13, folders 3-9;

SERIES 2: WRITINGS, circa 1949-1992, undated

Scope and Content Note

Divided into seven sub-series: Books, Stories, Folktales, Poetry, Articles, Working Notes and Research, and Miscellany.

Writings, which contains both published and unpublished works, are arranged in alphabetical order by title, and within each title, an outline or synopsis (if available) is filed first, then the draft(s) of the text, followed by materials regarding the publication of the work (where applicable), such as illustrations, printing proofs, publicity materials, reviews, and fan letters that Uchida had obviously gathered together with the working files for a few selected titles. Working notes and research are grouped by subject. Some correspondence regarding Uchida's writings may be found in the General Correspondence sub-series of Series 1.

Includes outlines, manuscripts, typescripts, galley proofs, mock-ups, notes, correspondence, sketches, drawings, fliers, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and catalogues.

BOOKS

Additional Note

* indicates original material for this title is also held by another institution

The Best Bad Thing

Box 15, folder 1-9

Typescripts, galleys, screenplay, reviews, publicity

oversize Oversize Box 1

Galleys

The Birthday Visitor

Box 16, folder 1-3

Corrected typescript, mock-up, publicity and reviews

oversize Oversize Box 13, folder 3

Production materials

The Clock That Got Tired

Box 16, folder 4

Illustrated typescript

The Dancing Kettle and Other Japanese Folk Tales *

folder 5-9

Publicity, reviews, scrapbook, fan letters, script of television broadcast

Desert Exile

Boxes 17-19

Typescripts of early version titled "Camp-1942";

Typescripts, corrected typescripts, changes and additions, photocopies of photos, captions, galleys, page proofs, excerpt published in Berkeley Monthly, publicity, reviews;

Japanese translation: galley proofs, publicity, reviews, newspaper clippings, Desert Exile fan letters;

"Camp 1942" rejection letters, Desert Exile rejection letters

oversize Oversize Box 13, folder 4

Publicity, cover art

The Forever Christmas Tree

Box 20, folder 1-3

Corrected typescripts, mock-up, publicity and reviews

The Full Circle*

folder 4-8

Illustrations, publicity, reviews, notes, instructor's guide: How to Use The Full Circle, fan letters

oversize Oversize Box 13, folder 5

Cover art

The Ghost at Green Acres

Box 20, folder 9-12

Typescripts and carbon typescripts, including The Good Year at Green Acres (Green Acres II), notes

The Happiest Ending

Box 21, folder 1-8

Corrected typescripts, galley proofs, page proofs, publicity, reviews

oversize Oversize Box 2

Galley proofs

Hisako's Mysteries*

Box 21, folder 9-10

Carbon typescript, publicity, reviews

oversize Oversize Box 4, folder 1-2

Galleys

The History of Sycamore Congregational Church

Box 22, folder 1

Corrected typescript

In Between Miya*

folder 2

Reviews

The Invisible Thread

Box 23, folder 3-11

Drafts, typescripts, layout, photocopies of photos, captions notes, publicity, reviews, fan letters

oversize Oversize Box 3, folder 1-2

Galleys, revised galleys

A Jar of Dreams*

Box 24, folder 1-9

Typescripts, mock-up, notes, publicity, reviews, screenplay

oversize Oversize Box 5

Galleys

Joji

Box 24, folder 10-12

Drafts, notes

Journey Home

Box 25, folder 1-15

Typescripts, carbon typescripts, publicity, reviews, awards, teleplay, correspondence with KCET regarding teleplay, glossary from Houghton Mifflin

oversize Oversize Boxes 6-7

Galleys, master set

Journey to Topaz*

Box 26, folder 1-8

Carbon typescript, chapter titles, introduction to Gregg Press Edition, illustrations, publicity, reviews, correspondence regarding television production, legal documents and notes regarding broadcasting rights

Journey of the Cloud

Box 27, folder 1-3

Typescript, illustrated manuscript, illustrations

oversize Oversize Box 11: a,b,c

Illustrations, illustrated manuscript

Let's Meet Haruko

Box 27, folder 4-6

Illustrated manuscripts, typescript, draft illustrations

The Lonely Rabbit

folder 7-10

Typescripts, corrected typescripts, drafts

The Magic Listening Cap*

Box 28, folder 1-6

Typescripts, illustrations, correspondence regarding contract, corrections to trade paperback edition (1987), notes, publicity, reviews

Makoto, the Smallest Boy*

folder 7-10

Typescript (incomplete), galleys, publicity, reviews, notes

Mik and the Prowler*

folder 11

Publicity, reviews

My Linnets

folder 12-15

Illustrated manuscript, revised drafts, journal notes and fragments, correspondence regarding publication, rejection letters

New Friends for Susan*

folder 16-19

Outline, illustrations, publicity, reviews

Peter Goes to Nursery School

folder 16-17

Illustrated manuscript, corrected typescript

Picture Bride

Boxes 29-31

Synopsis, typescripts, galleys, page proofs, mock-up, illustrations, publicity, reviews, fan letters, rejection letters, notes, miscellany

oversize Oversize Box 13, folder 6

Cover art

The Promised Year*

Box 32, folder 1-4

Carbon typescript, publicity, reviews

oversize Oversize Box 13, folder 7

Art proofs

Return of the First Son

Box 32, folder 5-11

Draft typescripts, notes

Rokubei and the Thousand Rice Bowls*

Box 33, folder 1-7

Typescripts, illustrations, reviews, correspondence regarding publication

The Rooster Who Understood Japanese

folder 8-11

Typescripts, proofs, mock-up, publicity, reviews, awards, fan letters

oversize Oversize Box 8

Galleys

Rosie's Jar

Box 33, folder 12-17

Typescript, corrected typescript, correspondence regarding publication

Samurai of Gold Hill*

Box 34, folder 1-10

Carbon typescript, publicity;

Oakland Museum reception: notes regarding planning and preparation, guest list;

Reviews, republication publicity, notes

The Sea of Gold*

folder 11-15

Carbon typescript, illustrations, publicity, reviews, excerpts

Sumi and the Goat and the Tokyo Express

Box 35, folder 1-5

Typescript, draft typescripts, galley, publicity, reviews, Adaptation for Flights Near and Far

oversize Oversize Box 9

Galley

Sumi's Prize

Box 35, folder 6-9

Typescript, galley, mock-up, publicity, reviews

oversize Oversize, folder 2 C

Mock-up

Sumi's Special Happening

Box 35, folder 10-12

Typescripts, publicity, reviews

Susan is a Tomboy

folder 13-14

Illustrated manuscript, typescript

Tabi: Journey through Time

folder 15-18

Typescripts, drafts;

Documents and correspondence regarding Sycamore Congregational Church Asian American Curriculum Project

oversize Oversize Box 10

Galleys of Teacher's Manual

Takao and Grandfather's Sword*

Box 36, folder 1-4

Illustrations, galleys, publicity, reviews

The Two Foolish Cats

folder 5-11

Typescripts, galleys, mock-up, publicity, reviews, awards, Classmate Magazine reprint

Until the Shores of Home[Samurai II]

folder 12-16

Typescripts, drafts, notes

Box 37, folder 1-10

We Do Not Work Alone

Box 38, folder 1-2

Draft typescript, excerpt printed in Pottery Quarterly

Who Got the Rice Cakes

folder 3-5

Typescript, draft typescripts, correspondence regarding publication, notes

Who Got Outfoxed

folder 6

Draft typescript, manuscript

Who Has the Most Friends

Box 38, folder 7-9

Draft typescripts, manuscripts, correspondence regarding publication

Miscellany

folder 10-11

Book jackets, miscellaneous illustrations

STORIES

Box 39, folder 1

"Benny"

folder 2

"The Birthday"

folder 3-6

"The Bracelet"

folder 7

"The Crepe Paper Flowers"

folder 8

"Culver Elementary School"

folder 9

"Enter -- J.Q. Dingle"

folder 10

"The Festival of the Dolls"

folder 11

"A Forgotten Lunch"

folder 12

"The Happy New Year"

folder 13

"I Feel Much Better Now"

folder 14

"If I Just Wait - The Grandmother"

folder 15-18

"Letter From A Concentration Camp"

folder 19

"The Little Gold Bag"

folder 20

"The Long White Dress"

folder 21

"The Long Year"

Box 40, folder 1

"The Man in the Gray Hat"

folder 2

"Mrs. Yamada Writes of Soup"

folder 3

"Mrs. Yamanaka Goes Home"

folder 4

"Of Dry Goods and Black Bow Ties"

folder 5

"Of Dust and Dead Trees"

folder 6

"Of Lost Lonely Souls"

folder 7

"Ogre of the Back House"

folder 8

"Oh Broom, Get to Work"

folder 9

"On a Summer Day"

folder 10

"On Seeing a Chinese Vase"

folder 11

"The Saga of an Unmet Need"

folder 12-13

"Saturday Visit"

folder 14-15

"Something To Be Remembered By"

folder 16

"Step Your Watch, Please"

folder 17

"The Teacher"

folder 18

"This Small World "

folder 19

"Time Out for Thought"

folder 20

"Tomorrow We Shall Go To Kazuo's"

folder 21

"A Tree in the Desert"

folder 22-23

"Uncle Kanda's Black Cat"

folder 24

"Unhappy Amelia"

Box 41, folder 1

"The Visitor"

folder 2

"The Wide Green Lawn" and "Class"

folder 3

"You Will Look like Everyone Else"

folder 4

"A Zillion Stars"

folder 5

Miscellany

FOLKTALES

Box 41, folder 6

"The Angels' Wings"

folder 7

"Blood on the Mountain"

folder 8

"The Dog of the Sea Kingdom"

folder 9

"Gombei and the Wild Ducks"

folder 10

"Hainawa Sentaba"

folder 11

"Kin no Tsubaki"

folder 12

"Kitsune Hitokuchi"

folder 13

"The Magic Purse"

folder 14

"The Mirror of Matsuyama"

folder 15

"The Mountain that Became a Sea"

folder 16

"The Mountain Witch and the Three Charms"

folder 17

"The Old Man and the Rabbit"

folder 18

"Sanzoku no Ototo"

folder 19

"Tenjyo no Oyome San"

folder 20

"The Tiger and the Fox"

folder 21

"The Two Bamboos"

folder 22

"Urashima Taro and the Princess of the Sea"

folder 23

"Uriko Hime"

folder 24

"The Vision of the Great White Elephant"

folder 25

"Wise Old Woman"

folder 26

"Zuiten Kozosan"

folder 27

Folktale Notebook and miscellaneous notes

folder 28

Collected Folktales: Source Materials

POETRY

Bird Song

Boxes 42-43

Typescripts, draft versions, illustrations, poems not used in Bird Song;

Old versions and galleys of Bird Song and Honeysuckles;

First printing: original and corrected copy of Honeysuckles

Box 44, folder 1

"Californian's Lament"

folder 2

"Chanson" and "Unto Eternity"

folder 3

Late on an October Afternoon and Other Poems

folder 4

Marigolds (Haiku and Other Poems)

folder 5

"My Mother's Poems" and other poems

folder 6-8

Visitor From Another World and Other Poems

folder 9

Whirly Bird and Other Poems

folder 10

Poetry Notebook, 1991-1992

folder 11-18

Poems, 1966-1992

folder 19

Miscellany

ARTICLES

Box 45, folder 1

"The Best of Japan"

folder 2

California Monthly articles

"Evacuation: The First Five Months"

"Japan After Five Years"

oversize Oversize Box 13, folder 8

Proof, "Japan After Five Years"

Box 45, folder 3-8

Craft Horizons articles

Includes "Letters from San Francisco"

folder 9

Gourmet: The Magazine of Good Living articles

"Japanese New Year"

"Tea and Tempura"

folder 10

"Hearn's Matsue"

folder 11

"I Have a Daughter to Put Away"

folder 12

"Japan's Doll Drama" and "Bento Time"

folder 13-14

"Margaret De Patta"

Text for catalog of the Margaret De Patta Memorial Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, 1964

Box 46, folder 1

Nippon Times articles

folder 2

"On with the Show"

folder 3

"Photograph of a President"

folder 4

"Richard Hieb in Japan"

folder 5

"Season of the Ensoku"

folder 6

"Shiko Munakata"

folder 7

"Some Thoughts About the Issei and Nissei"

folder 8

"A Sort of Pilgrimage"

folder 9

" A Square Ball"

folder 10

"The Story of the S.S. Hope"

folder 11-13

"Topaz: City of Dust"

folder 14

United States Army articles

folder 15

"The Wakamatsu Colony of Gold Hill"

folder 16

"We Do Not Work Alone: Portrait of a Potter"

folder 17

"We Want You To Be Happy"

folder 18

Write to Communicate articles

oversize Oversize Box 13, folder 9

Poster

WORKING NOTES AND RESEARCH

Box 47, folder 1

Notes for writing

folder 2

Working notes

folder 3-6

Working notes and ideas - adult

folder 7

Ideas

folder 8

Writing material

folder 9

Working notes - book

folder 10

Miscellaneous notes, drawings, and character development

folder 11

"Momi Japanese Dolls" illustrations

Box 48, folder 1

Issei: clippings and notes

folder 2

Issei/Nisei: miscellaneous

folder 3

Interview with Mrs. Matsuura

folder 4

Juvenile research

Research notes

folder 5

Silver jewelry

folder 6

Japanese pottery, Kanjiro Kawai

folder 7-8

Wakamatsu Colony

folder 9

Miscellaneous

folder 10

Other writers

MISCELLANY

Box 49, folder 1

General publicity

folder 2

Publicity log

folder 3

Book party lists and materials

folder 4

Japanese American Philatelic Society publicity

folder 5

Japanese vernaculars list

Catalogs

folder 6-7

Japanese American Curriculum Project

folder 8

Aladdin Books

folder 9

Creative Arts Books

folder 10

Northland Press

folder 11

Putnam & Grossett Book Group

Boxes 50-56; Boxes 65-66 [RESTRICTED]; Oversize Box 13, folders 10-12

SERIES 3: PROFESSIONAL PAPERS, 1944-1994.

Scope and Content Note

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically or chronologically, as appropriate.

Divided into seven sub-series: Bio-bibliographical, Awards and Honors, Talks and Invitations, Interviews, Professional Activities and Organizations, Donations to Institutions, and Permissions, Royalties, and Copyrights.

Bio-Bibliographical contains bibliographies, autobiographical and biographical statements, and clippings, and is followed by Awards and Honors (arranged alphabetically by name of award). Talks and Invitations (arranged chronologically) includes correspondence, flyers, clippings, and occasionally the text of Uchida's talks or reference notes. Interviews contains a log of interviews and Uchida's interview notes (arranged chronologically), with published interviews filed last. Professional Activities and Organizations (arranged alphabetically) includes program files, followed by miscellaneous materials, and a daily planner.

The last two sub-series concern donations to institutions and Uchida's files concerning permissions, royalties, and copyrights. These include details of donor agreements, and requests for permissions to publish, as well as royalty and copyright statements and related correspondence. These have been restricted from general use, and are available only with written permission of the curator.

Listings of Yoshiko Uchida manuscript items or collections held by other institutions have been provided by those curators and are included as Appendix A.

BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHICAL, 1944-1994

Box 50, folder 1-2

Bibliographies 1972-91

folder 3

Photocopies of photos of Yoshiko Uchida undated

folder 4

Curriculum vitae 1944-57

folder 5

Autobiographical sketches 1947-91

folder 6

"My Objectives as a Writer" 1982

Biographies

folder 7

Biographical statements 1958-86

folder 8

"An Artist Who Searches for Her Roots" by Bill Hosokawa (in Japanese) 1986

folder 9

"History Makers: Yoshiko Uchida" 1987

Excerpt from United States History

folder 10

"A Question of Loyalty" 1988

Excerpt from The Elusive Eden, A New History of California

folder 11

Contemporary American Success Stories 1994

folder 12

Clippings from newsletters and other publications 1958-91

folder 13

Newspaper clippings 1953-87, undated

folder 14

Term paper on Yoshiko Uchida by Sadako Kashiwagi 1986

AWARDS AND HONORS, 1955-1992

Box 51, folder 1

Bay Area Book Reviewers Award 1986

folder 2

California Japanese Alumni Association Award 1982

folder 3

California Reading Association Award 1981

folder 4-5

Commonwealth Club Awards 1973, 1982

folder 6

Herstory for Futures Unlimited (honorary membership) 1991-92

folder 7-9

Japanese American of the Biennium Awards (JACL) 1984, 1988

folder 10-11

Japanese American Citizen's League Awards 1976, 1982

folder 12

Japanese National Advisory Council Certificate of Recognition 1976

folder 13

Morris S. Rosenblatt Award (Utah State Historical Society) 1981

folder 14

National Women's History Project 1989-90

oversize Oversize Box 13, folder 10

Poster, National Women's History Month

Box 51, folder 15

The New York Herald Tribune Book Review Award 1955

folder 16

Nikkei in Education Award 1989

folder 17

San Mateo County Reading Association Young Authors' Hall of Fame 1984-85

folder 18

Sycamore Congregational Church Resolution 1979

folder 19

University of Oregon Distinguished Service Award 1981

TALKS AND INVITATIONS, 1955-1992

Box 52, folder 1-8

Invitations, correspondence, flyers, and clippings 1955-80

Box 53, folder 1-7

Invitations, correspondence, flyers, clippings, and speeches 1981-83

Box 54, folder 1

Invitations, correspondence, flyers, clippings, and speeches 1984

folder 2

Sherman Public Library and Sherman Public Schools, Sherman, Texas 1984

oversize Oversize Box 13, folder 11

"Focus on Sherman Schools" Feb. 26, 1984

Box 54, folder 3

Speeches 1984

folder 4-6

Invitations, correspondence, flyers, clippings, and speeches 1985-87

folder 7

The Children's Literature Center of the Library of Congress, Symposium: Window on Japan 1987

Reference materials for talks

Box 55, folder 1-2

Notes 1971-89, undated

folder 3-4

Clippings circa 1970's-80's

INTERVIEWS, 1973-1991

Box 55, folder 5

Interview log 1973-82

Interview notes

folder 6

KPFA, "Asian Media" Aug. 28, 1973; Sept. 6, 1973

folder 7

Richard Wada and Doug Yamamoto Jan. 12, 1975

folder 8

KPFA, M. Toshio Spring [1976?]

folder 9

Contra Costa Times Nov. 17, 1976

folder 10

KPFA, Adam David Miller Jan. 11, 1977

folder 11

KGO-TV, "Perspectives", Mike Lee Jan. 12/15, 1977

folder 12

KPFA Feb. 1, 1977

folder 13

Scott Foresman newsletter for teachers, with Debbie Storm Sept. 30, 1977

folder 14

Orinda Sun, with Dorothy Bowen Nov. 17, 1978

folder 15

Berkeley Gazette, with Barbara Erickson Dec. 26, 1978

folder 16

KUED-TV, Public Television, Utah, for the film, "Topaz" 1986-87

folder 17

[unidentified] July 1987

folder 18

[unidentified fragments] undated

Interviews

folder 19

Jade Magazine [1975?]

folder 20

A Smith Spectrum, Smith College 1986

folder 21

Parents' Press July 1991

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND ORGANIZATIONS, 1958-1992

Box 56, folder 1-2

The Authors Guild, Inc. 1961-91

folder 3

California Reading Initiative 1986

folder 4

Junior Publishers Program 1991

folder 5

Society of Children's Books Writers 1983-87

folder 6

Poets and Writers, Inc. 1977-86, undated

folder 7

Writers' directories 1969-92

folder 8

Miscellany 1958-90, undated

folder 9

Daily planner 1992

DONATIONS TO INSTITUTIONS, 1969-1992 [RESTRICTED]

University of California, Berkeley.

Box 65, folder 1

East Asiatic Library, and The Bancroft Library 1984-89

oversize Oversize Box 13, folder 12

Exhibit materials

Box 65, folder 2

Lowie Museum [Phoebe A. Hearst Museum] 1987-88

folder 3

Japanese American National Museum 1991-92

folder 4

The Oakland Museum 1985-87

folder 5

University of Minnesota, Library. 1979

Kerlan Collection.

folder 6

University of Oregon. Libraries 1969-79

PERMISSIONS, ROYALTIES, AND COPYRIGHTS, 1948-1994 [RESTRICTED]

Box 66, folder 1

Permissions notebook [1948-92]

folder 2-4

Permissions notes [1984-92]

folder 5-7

Permission requests and related correspondence 1992-94

folder 8

Notes relating to royalties [1963-92]

folder 9

Copyrights [1951-92]

folder 10

Out of print titles 1973-79

Boxes 57-60; Box 67 [RESTRICTED]; Oversize Box 13, folder 13

SERIES 4: PERSONAL PAPERS, 1931-1994.

Scope and Content Note

Arrangement

Arranged in categories, in roughly chronological order.

Contains Uchida's earliest childhood writings and other memorabilia, diaries, school records, material from her early career, and fellowship applications, followed by personal documents, including a copy of her birth certificate, certification of registration, and renunciation of Japanese citizenship, passports, property records, and diaries, journals, and articles concerning health matters. Materials from Uchida's memorial services and exhibits, and the settlement of her estate were added after her death.

Includes juvenalia, diaries and journals, notes, legal documents, calendars, art work, clippings, correspondence, and memorabilia.

Juvenalia

Box 57, folder 1

"Jimmy Chipmunk and His Friends" [1931]

folder 2

"Willie the Squirrel" [1931]

folder 3

"Salley Jane Waters" 1933

Memorabilia

folder 4

Daily Record - Special to Yoshi Uchida from Makoto Nukaga 1933

folder 5

Ye Sicke Room Guest Log undated

Diaries and Journals

folder 6

Diary 1931-32

folder 7-10

"My Diary of Important Events" 1932-41

Education

folder 11-12

School records 1933-44

folder 13-15

Smith College 1943-44, 1955

folder 16

Application to Columbia University, School of General Studies 1951

Early Career

Box 58, folder 1

Frankford Friends School 1944

folder 2

The Public Schools of Springfield, Massachusetts 1944

folder 3

Teachers College, Columbia University, New York 1944

folder 4

American Council, Institute of Pacific Relations, Inc. 1947

folder 5

United Student Christian Council 1948-51

Fellowships

folder 6-7

Ford Foundation Fellowship application 1952-71, undated

folder 8

Guggenheim Fellowship application 1958-59

Personal Documents

folder 9

Birth Certificate (copy), 1953-57

Certification of Registration,

Renunciation of Japanese Citizenship

folder 10

Passports 1952-80

folder 11

Purchase and sale of home, Oakland, Calif. 1950-71

folder 12

Will and related documents 1985-92

Memorial gift

folder 13

Birdsong by Yoshiko Uchida Oct. 1992

folder 14

Acknowledgments and thank-you notes 1992

folder 15

Memorial service, Sycamore Congregational Church Nov. 14, 1992

folder 16

Memorial service and exhibit, University of California, Berkeley Jan.-Apr. 1993

folder 17

Memorial program, Alameda County Library June 1994

Miscellaneous

folder 18

Reading journal undated

folder 19

Travel 1975-86

folder 20

Earl Palmer sermons 1975-78

folder 21

Masao Takenaka lecture 1985

folder 22

Notes

folder 23-24

Newspaper clippings 1953-92, undated

folder 25

Clippings from magazines and journals 1986-90, undated

oversize Oversize Box 13, folder 13

"The Great Blue Heron," woodblock by A. Elliot Offner undated

Box 60, folder 14

Scrapbook 1975-1991

Health matters

Box 59, folder 1-16

Diaries, journals, clippings, articles,and notes 1974-92, undated

Box 60, folder 1-13

Diaries, journals, clippings, articles, and notes 1974-92, undated

Settlement of estate [RESTRICTED]

Box 67, folder 1-9

Correspondence and legal papers of Executors, Mary Jane Perna and Gordon Dwight Honda; 1992 taxes June 1992-94

folder 10-12

Correspondence of Mary Jane Perna with: 1992-93

Keiko (Kay) Kakutani (sister),

Mabel P. Marshall (friend), and miscellaneous

Boxes 61-64; v. 1-2; Oversize Box 12

SERIES 5: UCHIDA FAMILY PAPERS, 1903-1991.

Scope and Content Note

Divided into three sub-series: Correspondence, Miscellaneous, and Relocation and Redress Papers.

Contains only a small amount of family correspondence, including letters by Yoshiko and her sister, Kay, and their parents, followed by family history materials, and a few personal papers of Dwight and Iku Uchida.

Relocation and redress papers are arranged with correspondence first, followed by other documents grouped by subject. Of particular interest are Yoshiko's camp diaries, scrapbook, and drawings of Topaz and Tanforan, along with a scrapbook assembled by her father.

Includes handwritten and typewritten letters, notes, legal documents, manuscripts, diaries, scrapbooks, calendars, notebooks, art work, printed materials, and newspaper and magazine clippings.

CORRESPONDENCE, 1949-1988

Box 61, folder 1

Letters of Kay Kakutani to family and from others 1955-88

folder 2-8

Letters of Yoshiko Uchida to and from family 1949-61, undated

folder 9

Letters from others 1952, undated

folder 10-11

Miscellaneous and unidentified 1952, undated

MISCELLANEOUS, 1903-1986

Box 62, folder 1

Photocopies of photos of Uchida Family [1916?], undated

folder 2

Uchida family history 1921-86, undated

folder 3

History of family friends 1972-76

Dwight Takashi Uchida

folder 4-7

Legal documents, including signature, funeral arrangements, and document holder 1903-66, undated

Iku [Umegaki] Uchida

folder 8-9

Writings and poems by Iku Umegaki 1942-81, undated

folder 10-11

Legal documents, including funeral arrangements 1916-67, undated

folder 12

Legal documents relating to estate 1965-66, undated

RELOCATION AND REDRESS PAPERS, 1941-1991

Relocation, 1941-1988

Correspondence

Box 63, folder 1

Dwight, T., Letters to family

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folder 2

Dwight, T., Correspondence with others

view online item

folder 3

Uchida, Dwight T., Letters of support for

view online item

folder 4

Uchida family, correspondence

view online item

folder 5

Uchida, Yoshiko, correspondence

view online item

folder 6

Uchida, Yoshiko, miscellany 1942-44

folder 7

Notes 1982, undated

folder 8

National Student Relocation Council 1942-43

folder 9

Smith College 1942-43

folder 10

Inventory of property 1942

folder 11-12

Date book, Daily reminder 1942

folder 13

Diary entries 1942

folder 14

Diary 1943

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Scrapbooks:

volume v. 1

Dwight T. Uchida, 1942-48

view online item

volume v. 2

Yoshiko Uchida, 1942-45

view online item

folder 15

Pencil drawing of camp by Yoshiko Uchida, June 15, 1942

view online item

oversize Oversize Box 12

Watercolor drawings of Topaz and Tanforan by Yoshiko Uchida, undated [?]

[A] [Watercolors by Yoshiko Uchida, Views of Tanforan]

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[1] Aug. 15, 1942. Tanforan.

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[2] July 7, 1942

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[3] August 27, 1942. Tanforan.

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[4] August 20, 1942

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[5] 7/9/42

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[6] Our Barrack 7-2-C. Topaz, Utah, 10/5/42. With distortions by Y. Uchida.

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[7] Topaz, Utah, 1/10/43

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[8] North East Corner of Topaz. Dusk. 10/3/42

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[9] After School Scene. Topaz Dust Storm.

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[10] Sunset at Topaz, September 28, 1942

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[11] [Untitled camp scene]

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[12] Ryokuho. August 23, 1943

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[13] [Untitled pencil sketch] June 27, 1942

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[14] August 4, 1942. Tanforan

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[15] [Untitled watercolor of people at camp housing] 7/21/42

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Box 63, folder 16

War Relocation Authority memoranda 1943-[44?]

Relocation camp publications

folder 17-18

Trek 1942-43

folder 19

All Aboard 1944

folder 20

Relocation camp newsletters 1942-44

folder 21

"From Camp to College" undated

folder 22

Born Free and Equalby Ansel Adams 1944

folder 23

Nissei in Uniform [1944?]

folder 24

They Work for Victory [1944?]

folder 25

Articles 1943-88

Box 64, folder 1-2

Newspaper clippings 1942-67

Redress, 1978-1991

Box 64, folder 3-4

Redress 1987-91

folder 5-6

Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians - Redress 1978-85, undated

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