Guide to the Woodbridge Bingham Papers, 1876-1986
Processed by Rosemary Evetts; completed by Robin Tremblay-McGaw
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Guide to the Woodbridge Bingham Papers, 1876-1986
Collection number: BANC MSS 87/114 cz
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
Contact Information:
- Processed by:
- Rosemary Evetts
- Completed by:
- Robin Tremblay-McGaw
- Encoded by:
- Campbell J. Crabtree
© 1996 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Collection Summary
Collection Title: Woodbridge Bingham Papers,
Date: 1876-1986
Collection Number: BANC MSS 87/114 cz
Collector:
Bingham, Woodbridge.
Extent:
Number of containers: 44 boxes, 12 cartons, 1 oversize folder
Linear feet: 33.5
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: Collection contains family and professional correspondence, diaries, writings, subject files, scrapbooks, clippings, and other
miscellaneous personal papers. Also included is material related to textbooks authored by Professor Bingham; materials related
to his East Asiatic classes at the University of California, Berkeley; a 1980 doctoral dissertation (Johns Hopkins) about
the Bingham family, by Char Miller; and an 1883 published genealogy titled The Woodbridge Record.
Languages Represented:
English
Information for Researchers
Access
Collection is open for research, with one exception: Carton 11, folder 4 is sealed until 2000.
Publication Rights
Copyright has been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must
be submitted in writing to the Head of the Manuscripts Division. 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], Woodbridge Bingham papers, BANC MSS 87/114 cz, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Related Collections
Title: Bingham Family Genealogical Material, 1631-1914,
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 69/64 p
Title: Bingham Family Papers, [ca. 1810-1908],
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS FILM P-N 148
Title: Records of the East Asia Teaching Training Committee, 1956-1965,
Identifier/Call Number: CU-53,
UC Archives
Materials Cataloged Separately
- Photographs have been transferred to Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library, except for those used in the preparation
of
History of Asia, found in Carton 12.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
The Woodbridge Bingham Papers were given to The Bancroft Library by his wife, Ursula Griswold Bingham, on August 17, 1986 and March 19, 1987, with additions made on August 10, 1990.
Biography
Woodbridge Bingham decided to study Chinese history and language at a time when few people in the U. S. were doing so. As
a result, he played a pioneering role in the development of East Asian studies in the United States. In 1924, when he began
his studies, there were only a few universities in the entire country offering any
Oriental courses and no professional organizations, associations, or publications for support. Bingham began his career at the University of California, Berkeley in 1937, teaching both undergraduate and graduate students the history and civilizations of Asia. The detailed syllabi and
reading lists he created for his classes became his
Southwest Asia: A Brief History and
History of Asia. He was a founding member, in 1941, of the Far Eastern Association, whose purpose was to publish
Far Eastern Quarterly (now the
Journal of Asian Studies). Bingham served through 1953 as a member of the first board of directors and from 1941 to 1947 was also a member of the editorial
advisory board; during 1947-1949, he edited the quarterly's
News and Notes and
News of the Profession sections.
In 1949 Bingham founded the University of California's Institute of East Asiatic Studies, and served as director until 1957. He was an advocate of the Faculty Fellows Program, which sought to foster closer ties between
students and faculty by providing opportunities for communication outside the classroom, and served as the program's coordinator
from 1963 to 1965. Although Bingham became an emeritus professor in 1969, his involvement as a Faculty Fellow lasted until
1977, when, as a member of the advisory board to a program known as CAL-in-the-UN, Bingham travelled to New York City to visit University of California student interns.
Woodbridge Bingham's strengths were his devotion to his subject area, his enthusiasm for teaching it, and his sincere interest
in his students. He motivated his students to their maximum abilities, acting on their behalf far above and beyond the duty
of an ordinary professor: he proposed, recommended, encouraged, and cheered them on. He not only advised them academically,
but personally as well, helping them to obtain housing, financial aid, foreign travel connections, and employment. Time after
time, grateful students wrote to ask Bingham for advice and direction and to thank him for his support, discipline, encouragement,
suggestions, and the opportunities he provided to broaden their experience and widen their vision. Hilary Conroy and Frank Iklé, co-authors for
A History of Asia, were former students.
The Binghams were an old, prominent, wealthy, and fascinating New England family. His father, Hiram (1875-1956), son of famous
but penniless missionaries, in 1899 married Alfreda Mitchell, granddaughter and heiress of Charles L. Tiffany. An explorer, Hiram discovered Macchu Picchu in the Peruvian highlands in 1911. Later he was elected to the U. S. Senate from Connecticut. Woodbridge was the oldest of seven brothers: Alfred Mitchell, lawyer; Brewster, minister; Charles Tiffany, physician; Hiram (1903-1988), diplomat; Jonathon Brewster, congressman; and Mitchell, artist. Although younger than Woodbridge, Alfred eventually settled in as the Bingham family head. In the 1930s, Alfred edited
and published
Common Sense, a radical left-wing magazine, while Brewster and Mitchell became deeply involved with a group known as M.R.A. (Moral Re-Armament), which eventually emerged in the 1970s as Up With People. Only two of the brothers made their homes away from New England: Mitchell in Florida and Woodbridge in Berkeley, California.
On 28 June 1928, Woodbridge married a young woman of similar standing and background, Ursula Wolcott Griswold. They had four daughters: Anne (b. 1929), Clarissa (b. 1931), Evelyn (b. 1938) and Marion (b. 1940). By 1930 Woodbridge and
Ursula had relocated from the East Coast to Berkeley for reasons of Woodbridge's health and to enable him to begin his Ph.D
program at the University of California. During 1934, with two children under age 6, they moved to Beijing (then called Peiping), China where they remained until he joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley in 1937.
Bingham was also a career naval reserve officer, primarily involved in translation and research. During World War II, he was
attached to the Joint Intelligence Center, Pacific Ocean Areas and later, the Office of Strategic Services.
Woodbridge Bingham died 5 May 1986. His ashes were buried in the family cemetery in Salem, Connecticut.
Scope and Content
The Woodbridge Bingham papers, 1876-1986, consist primarily of correspondence from the years 1902 through 1986, as well as
journals and daily diaries kept while traveling, and his writings and course textbook materials, including correspondence
with co-authors, editors, researchers, and fellow colleagues. Also includes miscellaneous personal and family papers, clippings,
subject files, and scrapbooks.
Bingham's professional correspondence deals largely with details of conferences, publications, research, translations, and
his students' difficulties and accomplishments. The strength of the collection is in its family correspondence, which will
be of most interest, perhaps, to social historians and women's studies scholars. Throughout his life, Woodbridge was a faithful
correspondent to his large and extended family. His mother, Alfreda, wrote nearly every week and his brother, Alfred, was
his most reliable correspondent.
After becoming engaged in September 1926, Woodbridge left for a year of study in China. While this collection lacks the letters
from Woodbridge to his fiancée, Ursula Wolcott Griswold, she wrote to him nearly every day. While summers in Connecticut,
research trips, World War II, and Ursula's own professional life as a YWCA national board member separated them many times during the next 60 years, each time Ursula renewed their correspondence. Her
letters during the Connecticut summers are particularly interesting, as they give day-to-day accounts of life with both of
their extended families.
Bingham's four daughters, who attended boarding school and college away from home, also became faithful letter-writers. Eventually
Evelyn settled in the San Francisco Bay area, but the others made their homes elsewhere. The letters from Anne, a medical
doctor, particularly indicate the difficulties involved for a bright, motivated woman in dealing with the traditional role
of women still dominant in the 1950s.
In addition to his immediate family members, Woodbridge carried on a significant correspondence with grandchildren, in-laws,
nieces and nephews, cousins, and assorted
near-family members. These include, but are not limited to, Ursula's family, the Griswolds, on her father's side, and the Sloanes, on
her mother's side; Cousin Kate Reynolds from Woodbridge's father's side; and his nephew, Nathaniel Shaw Bingham. Also included is Woodbridge's Yale roommate and life-long friend, Jerry Bartholomew and his family. While there is abundant correspondence with other family members, letters concerning certain personal events,
of family divorce and remarriage, are conspicuously absent. The family correspondence does more than simply chronicle events
in the Bingham family; it reflects sixty years of social change in America: radical politics, religion, divorce, inheritance,
child-rearing, diminishing wealth, changes in family structure, and the evolving role of women.
Container List
Boxes 1-10
Series 1. Outgoing Correspondence, 1902-1985.
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Personal and professional letters of Woodbridge Bingham. Incoming (and outgoing, as well as neither to nor from) letters also appear in three general subject files in carton 7: folder
20 concerns an embezzlement charge against an old family friend, J. R. Moulthrop; Navy correspondence is found in folders 24-27; and, folder 33 concerns a takeover threat at Tiffany & Company. Correspondence with Bingham's co-authors and publishers is also found among the textbook materials in Series 12.
Box 1, folder 1
Fragments
n.d.
Physical Description:
(14 items)
folder 2
Letters
n.d.
Physical Description:
(16 items)
folder 3
Letters
1902-1919
Physical Description:
(12 items)
folder 4
Letters
1920
Physical Description:
(10 items)
folder 5
Letters
1923
Physical Description:
(9 items)
folder 6-7
Letters
1924
Physical Description:
(36 items)
folder 8-14
Letters
1925
Physical Description:
(67 items)
folder 15
Letters
1926
Physical Description:
(9 items)
Box 2, folder 1-5
Letters
1926
Physical Description:
(67 items)
folder 6-9
Letters
1927
Physical Description:
(45 items)
folder 10-11
Letters
1928
Physical Description:
(40 items)
folder 12
Letters
1929
Physical Description:
(9 items)
Box 3, folder 1
Letters
1930
Physical Description:
(13 items)
folder 2-3
Letters
1931
Physical Description:
(24 items)
folder 4-5
Letters
1932
Physical Description:
(36 items)
folder 6-7
Letters
1933
Physical Description:
(48 items)
folder 8-9
Letters
1934
Physical Description:
(38 items)
folder 10-13
Letters
1935
Physical Description:
(55 items)
Box 4, folder 1
Letters
1935
Physical Description:
(19 items)
folder 2-4
Letters
1936
Physical Description:
(56 items)
folder 5-6
Letters
1937
Physical Description:
(67 items)
folder 7-10
Letters
1938
Physical Description:
(109 items)
folder 11-13
Letters
1939
Physical Description:
(67 items)
folder 14-19
Letters
1940
Physical Description:
(144 items)
Box 5, folder 1
Letters
1940
Physical Description:
(29 items)
folder 2-7
Letters
1941
Physical Description:
(206 items)
folder 8-9
Letters
1942
Physical Description:
(61 items)
folder 10
Letters
1943
Physical Description:
(2 items)
folder 11
Letters
1945
Physical Description:
(13 items)
folder 12-16
Letters
1946
Physical Description:
(201 items)
folder 17-20
Letters
1947
Physical Description:
(185 items)
Box 6, folder 1-5
Letters
1948
Physical Description:
(219 items)
folder 6-11
Letters
1949
Physical Description:
(227 items)
folder 12-14
Letters
1950
Physical Description:
(142 items)
folder 15-17
Letters
1951
Physical Description:
(90 items)
folder 18-19
Letters
1952
Physical Description:
(61 items)
folder 20-21
Letters
1953
Physical Description:
(69 items)
Box 7, folder 1-2
Letters
1954
Physical Description:
(55 items)
folder 3-4
Letters
1955
Physical Description:
(79 items)
folder 5-8
Letters
1956
Physical Description:
(141 items)
folder 9-11
Letters
1957
Physical Description:
(113 items)
folder 12-13
Letters
1958
Physical Description:
(70 items)
folder 14-15
Letters
1959
Physical Description:
(73 items)
folder 16-20
Letters
1960
Physical Description:
(156 items)
Box 8, folder 1-4
Letters
1961
Physical Description:
(110 items)
folder 5-7
Letters
1962
Physical Description:
(100 items)
folder 8-11
Letters
1963
Physical Description:
(118 items)
folder 12-14
Letters
1964
Physical Description:
(102 items)
folder 15-16
Letters
1965
Physical Description:
(48 items)
folder 17-21
Letters
1966
Physical Description:
(139 items)
Box 9, folder 1-4
Letters
1967
Physical Description:
(115 items)
folder 5-7
Letters
1968
Physical Description:
(97 items)
folder 8-10
Letters
1969
Physical Description:
(102 items)
folder 11-12
Letters
1970
Physical Description:
(67 items)
folder 13-15
Letters
1971
Physical Description:
(79 items)
folder 16-17
Letters
1972
Physical Description:
(87 items)
folder 18-19
Letters
1973
Physical Description:
(91 items)
Box 10, folder 1-2
Letters
1974
Physical Description:
(64 items)
folder 3-5
Letters
1975
Physical Description:
(112 items)
folder 6-7
Letters
1976
Physical Description:
(82 items)
folder 8-9
Letters
1977
Physical Description:
(64 items)
folder 10-11
Letters
1978
Physical Description:
(67 items)
folder 12-13
Letters
1979
Physical Description:
(67 items)
folder 14-15
Letters
1980
Physical Description:
(54 items)
folder 16
Letters
1981
Physical Description:
(29 items)
folder 17
Letters
1982
Physical Description:
(20 items)
folder 18
Letters
1983
Physical Description:
(20 items)
folder 19
Letters
1984-1985
Physical Description:
(28 items)
Boxes 11-37
Series 2. Incoming Correspondence, 1908-1986.
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Letters from family members arranged by order of relationship, and then chronologically.
Letters from others arranged alphabetically by correspondent, and then chronologically.
Divided into 5 sub-series: Letters from his wife, Ursula Wolcott Griswold Bingham; Letters from his daughters; Letters from
other family members; Letters from specific individuals; and Letters from various individuals.
Letters from his Wife, Ursula Wolcott Griswold Bingham, 1926-1983.
Box 11, folder 1-3
Letters
1926
Physical Description:
(26 items)
folder 4-11
Letters
1927
Physical Description:
(84 items)
Box 12, folder 1-5
Letters
1928
Physical Description:
(90 items)
folder 6-7
Letters
1929
Physical Description:
(21 items)
folder 8-9
Letters
1930
Physical Description:
(24 items)
Box 13, folder 1
Letters
1931-1932
Physical Description:
(8 items)
folder 2-3
Letters
1932
Physical Description:
(27 items)
folder 4-5
Letters
1933
Physical Description:
(17 items)
folder 6
Letters
1934-1935
Physical Description:
(14 items)
folder 7
Letters
1936-1939
Physical Description:
(21 items)
folder 8-9
Letters
1942-1943
Physical Description:
(22 items)
folder 10
Letters
1944
Physical Description:
(25 items)
Box 14, folder 1-4
Letters
1944
Physical Description:
(65 items)
folder 5
Letters
1945
Physical Description:
(23 items)
folder 6
Letters
1946
Physical Description:
(11 items)
folder 7
Letters
1947
Physical Description:
(13 items)
folder 8
Letters
1948-1949
Physical Description:
(14 items)
folder 9-10
Letters
1951
Physical Description:
(20 items)
folder 11
Letters
1952
Physical Description:
(25 items)
Box 15, folder 1-2
Letters
1953-1954
Physical Description:
(36 items)
folder 3
Letters
1955
Physical Description:
(28 items)
folder 4-5
Letters
1956
Physical Description:
(30 items)
folder 6
Letters
1957
Physical Description:
(11 items)
folder 7
Letters
1959-1961
Physical Description:
(18 items)
folder 8
Letters
1962-1967
Physical Description:
(18 items)
folder 9
Letters
1970-1983
Physical Description:
(24 items)
Letters from his Daughters, 1938-1986
Box 16, folder 1
From his daughters
1943
Physical Description:
(1 item)
folder 2-4
Anne Bingham
1938-1954
Physical Description:
(88 items)
folder 5-7
Anne Bingham Pierson
1954-1976
Physical Description:
(78 items)
folder 8-9
Anne Bingham Pierson Wright
1978-1985
Physical Description:
(72 items)
folder 10-11
Clarissa Bingham
1939-1952
Physical Description:
(40 items)
folder 12
Clarissa Bingham Brown
1953-1960
Physical Description:
(19 items)
Box 17, folder 1
Clarissa Bingham Brown
1960-1971
Physical Description:
(30 items)
folder 2-4
Clarissa Bingham Brown Junge
1970-1985
Physical Description:
(66 items)
folder 5-6
Evelyn Bingham
1941-1970
Physical Description:
(44 items)
folder 7
Evelyn Bingham Prosser
1971-1983
Physical Description:
(13 items)
folder 8
Evelyn Bingham Prosser Goodman
1986
Physical Description:
(1 item)
folder 9
Marion Bingham
1945-1960
Physical Description:
(30 items)
folder 10-11
Marion Bingham Hubbell
1960-1985
Physical Description:
(54 items)
Letters from other Family Members, 1903-1985
Box 18, folder 1-14
Bingham, Alfred Mitchell
1917-1984
Physical Description:
(385 items)
Box 19, folder 1-3
Bingham, Brewster
1917-1983
Physical Description:
(107 items)
folder 4-6
Bingham, Charles Tiffany
1922-1985
Physical Description:
(102 items)
folder 7
Bingham, Hiram (1831-1908)
1903-1906
Physical Description:
(4 items)
folder 8-15
Bingham, Hiram (1875-1956)
1908-1955
Physical Description:
(161 items)
Box 20, folder 1-3
Bingham, Hiram (1903-1988)
1920-1984
Physical Description:
(64 items)
folder 4-6
Bingham, Jonathon Brewster
1919-1982
Physical Description:
(132 items)
folder 7-9
Bingham, Mitchell
1924-1985
Physical Description:
(109 items)
folder 10
Bingham, Suzanne Hill Carroll
1955-1957
Physical Description:
(7 items)
Box 21, folder 1-11
Bingham, Alfreda Mitchell
1917-1925
Physical Description:
(225 items)
Box 22, folder 1-10
Bingham, Alfreda Mitchell
1926-1941
Physical Description:
(200 items)
Box 23, folder 1-5
Gregor, Alfreda Mitchell Bingham
1942-1967
Physical Description:
(139 items)
folder 6-8
Mitchell, Annie O.
1918-1936
Physical Description:
(71 items)
Letters from Specific Individuals, 1918-1985.
Box 24, folder 1
Acker, William R. B.
1929-1979
folder 4
Babb, James T. (James Tinkham), 1899-1968
1948-1959
folder 5-6
Baldwin, Frances Elizabeth, 1899-
1921-1924
folder 7
Bankers Trust Company (New York, N. Y.)
1937-1941
folder 8-11
Bartholomew, Jeremiah H., Jr.
1924-1985
folder 12
Bartholomew, Jeremiah H., Sr.
1938-1953
folder 13
Benner, Frederic C.
1935-1956
folder 14
Biggerstaff, Knight, 1906-
1931-1948
folder 15
Bingham, Frances Beach
1940-1983
folder 16-17
Bingham, June Rossbach, 1919-
1941-1982
folder 18
Bingham, Kathleen Howell
1929-1956
Box 25, folder 1
Bingham, Nathaniel Shaw
1948-1978
folder 2
Bingham, Norris Nevins
1935-1951
folder 3
Bingham, Rose Beach
1935-1959
folder 4
Bingham, Sylvia Knox
1935-1944
folder 6
Black, Carol & John
1944-1985
folder 7
Blackmore, Michael
1964-1968
folder 8
Blackmore, Thaung
1963-1973
folder 9
Blue, Rhea Camilla
1945-1950
folder 10
Bock, Felicia G.
1966-1976
folder 11
Bodde, Derk, 1909-
1936-1948
folder 12
Boehm, Eric H., 1918-
1958-1961
folder 13
Boodberg, Peter Alexis, 1903-
1935-1966
folder 14
Bradford, Standish
1920-1977
folder 15
Brill, E. J., 1901-
1930-1949
folder 16
Brokaw, R. Miriam
1956-1961
folder 17-18
Brown, Delmer Myers, 1909-
1940-1960
folder 19
Brown, Clarissa
1974-1976
folder 20
Brown, Edward O., Jr.
1968-1984
folder 21
Brown, Edward O., Sr.
1954-1968
folder 22
Brown, Phyllis Wyatt
1966-1984
folder 23
Brown, Marion Sloane
1960-1984
folder 24
Cameron, Frances Baldwin
1959-1976
folder 25
Carter, Edward C.
1933-1947
folder 27
Chapin, Helen Burwell, 1892-1950
1939-1948
folder 28
Chase, George Henry, 1874-1952
1931-1934
folder 29
Cheung, Hok-ming (Frederick)
1975-1978
folder 30
Chiu, A. Kaiming
1931-1949
folder 31
Christian, John Leroy, 1902-1945
1938-1942
Box 26, folder 1
Clubb, O. Edmund (Oliver Edmund), 1901-
1953-1985
folder 2
Commercial Press (Shanghai, China)
1929-1950
folder 3
Coney, Donald, 1901-1973
1945-1960
folder 4
Connecticut Bank & Trust Company
1967-1971
folder 5
Conroy, Hilary F., 1919-
1949-1984
folder 8
Creamer, James W.
1970-1973
folder 9
Deutsch, Monroe E. (Monroe Emanuel), 1879-1955
1932-1947
folder 10
Dowler, Lawrence
1977-1979
folder 11
Dwight & Scoville
1937-1941
folder 12
Eldridge, Harry
1929-1970
folder 13
Elisseeff, Serge, 1889-
1935-1948
folder 14
Fahs, Charles Burton
1936-1949
folder 15
Fairbank, John King, 1907-
1938-1979
folder 16
Fairbank, Wilma
1938-1949
folder 17
Feng, Chia-sheng
1936-1947
folder 18
Ferguson, John Calvin, 1866-1945
1925-1938
folder 19
Field, Frederick Vanderbilt, 1905-
1936-1940
folder 20
Field, Henry, 1902-
1932-1967
folder 21
First Congregational Church (Berkeley, Calif.)
1941-1950
folder 23
Fowler, Norris Nevins Bingham
1960
folder 24
Frankel, Hans H. (Hans Hermann), 1916-
1949-1970
folder 25
Gardner, Charles S. (Charles Sidney), 1900-
1927-1948
folder 26
Gillett, Marion & Clarence
1937-1940
folder 27
Ginner, Margaret E.
1960-1982
folder 28
Glasier, Herbert
1950-1951
folder 29
Gleysteen, Culver
1955-1974
folder 30
Gleysteen, Theodore Carter
1949-1958
folder 31
Goodrich, L. Carrington (Luther Carrington), 1894-
1932-1982
folder 33
Graves, Mortimer
1931-1970
Box 27, folder 1
Griffin, Clarissa Brown
1978-1984
folder 2
Griswold, Adela Sloane
1927-1930
folder 3
Griswold, Evelyn Sloane
1927-1942
folder 4
Griswold, William E. S., Sr.
1927-1957
folder 5
Griswold, William E. S., Jr.
1927-1982
folder 6
Hackett, E. Byrne
1941-1953
folder 7
Hampton, Albert
1930-1941
folder 8
Harvard University
1926-1930
folder 9
Hicks, John Donald, 1890-
1945-1950
folder 10-11
Hobart, R. Charles
1926-1954
folder 12
Holland, W. L. (William Lancelot), 1907-
1940-1960
folder 13
Howley, Robert J.
1956-1960
folder 14
Hubbell, William B., Jr.
1960-1984
folder 17
Huff, Elizabeth Willis, 1892-
1947-1973
folder 18
Hummel, R. Stuart
1939-1983
folder 19
Hung, William, 1893-
1930-1959
folder 20
Hurewitz, J. C., 1914-
1956-1962
folder 21
Iklé, Frank William, 1921-
1950-1984
folder 22
Jones, Juliette
1945-1974
folder 24
Karnes, Thomas L.
1973-1979
folder 25
Kates, George N. (George Norbert), 1895-
1936-1950
folder 26
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company
1929-1960
folder 27
Kerner, Robert Joseph, 1887-1956
1934-1949
folder 28
King, Frank H. H.
1969-1978
folder 29
Laai, Yi-faai, 1906-
1949-1950
folder 30
Larsen, Elizabeth
1968-1977
Box 28, folder 1
Lasker, Bruno, 1880-1965
1937-1957
folder 2
Latourette, Kenneth Scott, 1884-1968
1925-1964
folder 4
Leavens, Dickson Hammond
1926-1954
folder 5
Leavens, Marjorie B.
1955-1959
folder 6
Leupp, Harold Lewis, 1877-1952
1934-1941
folder 7
Light, Richard Upjohn, 1902-
1931-1951
folder 8
Lilienthal, Philip Eugene, 1914-
1947-1976
folder 9
Lin, Tung-chi, 1907-
1933-1980
folder 10
Lin, T. Y. (Tung-yen), 1911-
1948-1982
folder 12
Lundy, Frank A.
1940-1941
folder 13
Lusk, William T.
1918-1967
folder 14
McCune, George McAfee, 1908-1948
1939-1948
folder 15
Miller, Richard James, 1918-
1947-1961
folder 17
Morehouse, Ward, 1929-
1957-1967
folder 18
Morris, Virginia
1925-1927
folder 19
Moulthrop, J. R.
1930-1949
folder 21
Park, Richard Leonard
1956-1972
folder 23
Paxson, Frederic L. (Frederick Logan), 1877-1948
1932-1946
folder 24
Peabody, Endicott
1920-1942
folder 25-26
Peake, Cyrus Henderson, 1900-
1933-1967
folder 27
Peking Union Book Store (Peiping, China)
1933-1937
folder 28
Pettus, William B. (William Bacon) b. 1860
1932-1945
folder 29
Pierson, Alexandra deForest
1974-1984
Box 29, folder 1
Pierson, Cordelia
1977-1983
folder 2
Pierson, George W.
1946-1973
folder 3
Pierson, Olivia
1969-1983
folder 4
Pierson, Richard N., III
1969-1985
folder 5-6
Pierson, Richard N., Jr.
1954-1981
folder 7
Pierson, Richard N., Sr.
1955-1960
folder 8
Pierson, Richard N., Sr., Mrs.
1954-1976
folder 10-12
Pritchard, Earl
1941-1969
folder 15
Roselund, David & June
1967-1971
folder 16
Rudolph, Richard C.
1947-1956
folder 17
Savelle, Max, 1896-
1940-1966
folder 18
Scalapino, Robert A.
1954-1979
folder 19
Schiff, Judith Ann
1967-1979
folder 20
Scranton, Charles W. & Company
1923-1930
folder 21
Security Storage Company of Washington (D.C.)
1956-1960
folder 22
Shores, Louis, 1904-
1946
folder 23
Sinclair, Lachlan M.
1937-1984
folder 25
Spencer, Robert Francis, 1917-
1936-1940
folder 26
Sproul, Robert Gordon, 1891-1975
1934-1956
folder 27
Staley, Eugene, 1906-
1946-1949
folder 28
Stampp, Kenneth M. (Kenneth Milton)
1950-1963
Box 30, folder 1
Stevick, Guy L.
1973-1974
folder 2
Strong, Edward W. (Edward William), 1901-
1954-1964
folder 3
Teng, Ssu-yu, 1906-
1941-1962
folder 4
Tenney (Charles H.) & Company
1929-1930
folder 5
Thompson, Virgina McLean, 1903-[Adolf, Virginia Thompson, 1903-]
1951-1981
folder 7
Tucker, Tiffany Bingham
1955-1956
folder 8-10
Union & New Haven Trust Company
1921-1955
folder 11
Wilbur, C. Martin (Clarence Martin), 1908-
1946-1977
folder 12
Williston, Emily
1928-1929
folder 13
Wilmer, Richard H.
1956-1962
folder 14
Woolf, Marvin B.
1971-1975
folder 15
Wright, Richard T.
1978-1985
folder 16
Wu, Kuang-yu, 1908-
1935-1949
Letters from Various Individuals, 1903-1985
folder 3
Altrocchi - American
1931-1976
folder 5
Applegate - Astilla
1932-1972
folder 6
Atwater - Aydelotte
1926-1971
folder 7
Babcock - Bailey
1942-1968
folder 9
Balamuth - Barrows
1926-1979
folder 10
Batholomew - Bayley
1927-1978
folder 12
Benjamin - Bevis
1926-1972
folder 13
Bingham, Abigail - Bingham, K. Farr
1936-1982
folder 14
Bingham, John H. L. - Bingham, Timothy W.
1944-1985
folder 16
Blaisdell - Blumenthal
1937-1981
folder 17
Bodak - Book of the Month Club
1926-1977
folder 18
Borton - Bradley
1938-1977
folder 19
Braibanti - Brooks
1931-1975
folder 20
Brown - Brunner
1930-1982
folder 21
Buchanan - Byard
1932-1985
folder 22
Cabral - Carlisle
1938-1980
Box 32, folder 1
Chamberlain - Chappell
1929-1975
folder 2
Chase - Cherrington
1928-1983
folder 5
Cochrane - Condliffe
1938-197
folder 6
Congleton - Cox
1926-1980
folder 7
Craig - Cushing
1922-1964
folder 9
DeBary - DeYoung
1946-1980
folder 10
Dibblee - Dittmer
1946-1982
folder 12
Drake - Duhring
1934-1983
folder 13
Dungan - Eberhard
1920-1965
folder 15
Emeneau - Eustis
1937-1985
folder 17
Farquhar - Ferris
1938-1969
folder 20
Gammon - Gilbert
1936-1984
folder 21
Giles - Goodchild
1929-1979
Box 33, folder 1
Greene - Gregory
1926-1979
folder 2
Griffin - Grummen
1940-1980
folder 3
Guaranty - Hagemann
1923-1974
folder 4
Haines - Hammarberg
1927-1976
folder 6
Harrassowitz - Haswell
1933-1971
folder 7
Hatch - Hayhurst
1922-1972
folder 10
Holland - Horne
1928-1970
folder 12
Hrdlicka - Huff
1925-1973
folder 14
Iliff - Isseido
1929-1985
folder 15
Jackson - James
1942-1984
folder 16
Jamieson - Jensen
1920-1981
folder 17
Joelson - Junge
1937-1981
folder 20
Kiang - Kinnard
1930-1975
folder 21
Kirk - Kortozian
1929-1984
Box 34, folder 1
Koskinen - Kublin
1945-1980
folder 2
Kuchel - Lamont
1932-1972
folder 3
Landon - Laufer
1932-1980
folder 4
League of Women Voters - Lessing
1939-1972
folder 5
Letiche - Lieurance
1941-1982
folder 10
Maecchen - Mantri
1934-1980
folder 11
Mark - Matsumoto
1919-1980
folder 12
Matuszewski - Mazour
1940-1974
folder 13
McBlair - McCune
1932-1975
folder 14
McDonald - McKillop
1936-1973
folder 15
McKinnon - Miles
1939-1982
folder 19
Namkung - New Haven
1916-1984
folder 20
Newsom - Niehaus
1937-1971
Box 35, folder 1
Olivola - Overton
1918-1984
folder 3
Peacock - Pfund
1923-1984
folder 5
Pocock - Potter
1929-1966
folder 7
Quigley - Rauch
1941-1979
folder 8
Read - Reynolds
1937-1975
folder 9
Rhodes - Ristenpart
1923-1969
folder 10
Roberts - Rosinger
1928-1980
folder 11
Rossett - Ryerson
1938-1975
folder 13
Sanderson - Sawyer
1941-1973
folder 14
Scanlon - Schleif
1930-1981
folder 15
Schmidt - Scranton
1930-1975
folder 16
Seabury - Shafer
1940-1979
folder 17
Shapere - Shively
1920-1979
folder 19
Siple - Smith, Celia
1920-1973
folder 20
Smith, Evelyn - Sockman
1932-1985
Box 36, folder 1
Sohn - Springfield
1928-1971
folder 2
Stanford - Stephens
1929-1980
folder 3
Stephenson - Stilwell
1937-1971
folder 4
Stoker - Sturdy
1933-1972
folder 6
Talbott - Teggart
1929-1981
folder 7
Teicholz - Titiev
1933-1980
folder 9
Treutlein - Tsen
1918-1973
folder 10
Tsurumi - Tyson
1933-1984
folder 11
Union - Usinger
1937-1980
folder 12
Valyi - Vickery
1931-1981
folder 13
Vigezzi - Von Holt
1921-1971
folder 14
Wagenet - Walker
1921-1980
folder 15
Wallace - Watts
1936-1980
folder 16
Webb - Westerman
1930-1972
folder 17
Wheeler - Willenborg
1930-1982
folder 18
Williams - Wittfogel
1928-1980
Box 37, folder 1
From more than one family member
1919-1938
folder 2
From unidentified surname
1919-1982
folder 4
Unidentified correspondence
1937-1983
folder 6
No surname - no date
n.d.
folder 7
Illegible signatures
1903-1982
folder 12-13
Christmas cards
1927-1985
Box 38
Series 3. Letters to Ursula Wolcott Griswold Bingham, 1927-1985.
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent, and then chronologically.
Personal letters concerning family affairs.
Box 38, folder 1-11
A-Y miscellaneous
1929-1985
folder 13
From unidentified surname
1927-1984
Boxes 39-40, Box 43
Series 4. Letters neither to nor from Woodbridge Bingham, 1876-1984.
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by name of recipient, and then chronologically.
Letters primarily to other family members concerning family and personal matters.
Box 39, folder 1
To Bingham, Alfred M. (Alfred Mitchell), 1905-
1938-1982
folder 2-9
To Bingham, Clarissa Minerva Brewster
1887-1902
folder 10-15
To Bingham, Hiram (1875-1956)
1876-1952
folder 16
To Bingham, Hiram (1903-1988)
1928-1937
folder 17
To Bingham, Jonathon Brewster
1925-1963
folder 18
To Bingham, Suzanne Hill Carroll
1957
Box 43, folder 1
To Conroy, Hilary F., 1919-
1954-1984
folder 2-4
To Gregor, Alfreda Mitchell Bingham
1903-1966
folder 5
To Hubell, Marion Bingham
1961-1972
folder 6
To Ikle, Frank William, 1921-
1959-1984
folder 7
To Mitchell, Annie O.
1926-1936
folder 8
To Sproul, Robert Gordon, 1891-1975
1945-1951
Box 40, folder 1
To unidentified surname
1949
folder 2-19
To A - Z miscellaneous
1913-1984
Carton 1, Box 44
Series 5. Diaries, Journals, and Speeches, 1921-1985.
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Arranged by document type, and then chronologically.
Day-to-day diaries, as well as journals kept while travelling. Also includes dated notes which Professor Bingham referred
to as
diary notes and notes of telephone conversations. Note cards for speeches primarily on East Asia, but also on the Bingham family. Box
44 contains daily appointment calendars, filed chronologically, which were a later addition to the collection.
Ctn. 1, folder 1-39
Diaries, diary notes, & journals
1921-1985
Box 44, folder 1-24
Daybooks [Daily appointment calendars]
1939-1985
Cartons 2-4; Carton 5, folders 1-84; Boxes 41-42
Series 6. Writings and Course Materials, 1922-1982.
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Includes two drafts of his Ph.D. dissertation, journal articles, book reviews, transcripts of formal and informal speeches,
biographical sketches, and other miscellaneous writings. Course materials—notes, exams, etc., were left as Professor Bingham
filed them. Textbook materials are found in Series 12.
Box 41, folder 1-7
Hiram Bingham: a personal history
ca. 1980-1982
Box 42, folder 1-9
Hiram Bingham: a personal history
ca. 1982-1984
Ctn. 5, folder 1-84
Course materials
1937-1968
Carton 5, folders 85-90; Carton 6; Carton 7, folders 1-46; Carton 12, folder 44
Series 7. Subject Files, ca. 1880-1986.
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by subject, with family material precedes other subjects.
Consists of miscellaneous material relating to family members and concerns as well as professional subjects. Carton 6, folders
18-19 contain a 1980 doctoral dissertation by Char Miller (Johns Hopkins University), titled
Fathers and Sons: the Binghams and American Reform, 1790-1970; in folder 20 is
The Woodbridge Record (1883), a published genealogy.
Ctn. 5, folder 85-86
Bingham, Alfred Mitchell
1939-1970
folder 87
Bingham, Brewster
1935-1976
folder 88
Bingham, Charles Tiffany
1948
folder 89
Bingham, Hiram (1875-1956)
1919-1957
Ctn. 12, folder 44
Bingham, Hiram (1875-1956)
1928
Ctn. 5, folder 90
Bingham, Hiram (1903-1988)
ca. 1947
Ctn. 6, folder 1-5
Bingham, Jonathan Brewster
1964-1983
folder 6
Bingham, June Rossbach
1952-1967
folder 7
Bingham, Mitchell
1947-1985
folder 8
Bingham, Nathaniel Shaw
1960-1963
folder 9
Bingham, Sylvia Doughty Knox
1906-1981
folder 10-11
Bingham, Ursula Wolcott Griswold
1931-1982
folder 14
Goodman, Evelyn Bingham Prosser
1938-1984
folder 15
Hubbell, Marion Bingham
1957-1963
folder 16
Junge, Clarissa Bingham Brown
1937-1939
folder 17
Wright, Anne Bingham Pierson
1937-1974
folder 18-19
Fathers and Sons: the Binghams and American Reform
1980
folder 20
The Woodbridge Record
1883
folder 28
American Civil Liberties Union
1951-1958
folder 29
China Council (UC Berkeley)
1942-1946
folder 32
City Bank, Farmers' Trust Company v. Burnett Y. Tiffany & others
1933
folder 33
Committee for Far Eastern Policy
n.d.
folder 36
Discussion Club (UC Berkeley)
n.d.
folder 38
East Asiatic library
1949-1983
folder 39
Farmers' Loan & Trust Company v. Burnett Y. Tiffany
1928
folder 40
Faculty Fellows Program
1963-1965
folder 41-43
Far Eastern Association
1948-1950
folder 44
First Congregational Church
1961-1968
folder 48-50
Gutteridge Memorial Fund
1969-1972
folder 53
Hawaiian Historical Society
1974-1976
Ctn. 7, folder 1
Hawaiian Mission Children's Society
1905-1982
folder 2
Honor societies
1931-1960
folder 3
Institute of East Asiatic Studies
1951
folder 4-5
Institute of International Studies
1955-1957
folder 6
Institute of Pacific Relations
1939
folder 7
Japanese American Citizens League
1941-1945
folder 13-19
Mitchell, Annie O. - estate
1934-1952
folder 20
Moulthrop, J. R., Col.
ca. 1939-1954
folder 30
New London Junior College (Ct.)
1939-1943
folder 32
Rockefeller Committee on Far Eastern & Slavic Affairs
1946-1948
folder 33
Secret societies
1931-1970
folder 34
Teheran Conference on Middle East Research
1959
folder 35
Tiffany & Company
1927-1955
folder 36
United Board for Christian Colleges in China
1948-1962
folder 37
Woman's College of New Haven
1939
folder 40-45
Yale University
1923-1925
folder 46
Yenching School of Chinese Studies
1924-1932
Carton 7, folders 45-56
Series 8. Miscellaneous Personal Papers, 1901-1986.
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
Includes biographical material such as the annual bio-bibliography form required by the University
Ctn. 7, folder 47-49
Biographical material
1930-1978
folder 50
List of kodachromes
1955-1959
folder 54
Personal property
1957-1973
folder 56
Union & New Haven Company—property management
1931-1937
folder 57
University of California appointment
1937-1957
folder 58
Visas, passports, travel passes
1924-1967
Carton 7, folders 57-75
Series 9. Documents Relating to Family Businesses, 1928-1984.
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically.
Contains reports, minutes, financial statements, etc. pertaining to Bingham family properties and businesses in Connecticut.
folder 63
Lone Pine Lawn Corporation
1932-1940
Ctn. 8, folder 1
Mitchell, Annie O. - trust for grandsons
1928-1945
folder 2
Mumford Dairies
1940-1945
folder 3-7
Salem Valley Corporation
1964-1983
folder 9-11
Woodbridge Cemetery Association
1930-1972
folder 12
Woodbridge House
1953-1971
Carton 8, folders 1-22
Series 10. Newspaper Clippings, ca. 1924-1986.
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically.
Primarily subject files concerning family members and others, including one folder of wedding announcements and one of obituaries.
Ctn. 8, folder 13-34
Newspaper clippings
1924-1986
Carton 8, folders 23-29
Series 11. Scrapbooks, ca. 1920-1939.
Scope and Content Note
Seven scrapbooks, arranged chronologically. The earliest concerns his years at Yale, followed by one of miscellaneous family
items. The remaining volumes document the conflict between China and Japan, 1935-1939, with many items from English language
newspapers in China.
Cartons 9-12, Oversize Folder 1.
Series 12. Textbook Materials, ca. 1930-1980.
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Arrangement of Professor Bingham retained: a rough topical order.
Concerns the textbooks published as
History of Asia (in two volumes) and
Southwest Asia: A Brief History, as well as
Historical Leaders of China. Manuscript notes of each work are preceded by correspondence with his co-authors and publishers. Photographs pertaining to
the
History of Asia, arranged by volume and chapter, have been retained in the collection. Oversize folder of miscellany contains an historical
chronology, maps, and various clippings.
Introduction to the History of Asia, 1954-1963.
Ctn. 9, folder 1
Bingham, Jonathan Brewster
1960
folder 2-6
Conroy, Hilary F., 1919-
1952-1962
folder 7-9
Iklé, Frank William, 1921-
1956-1962
folder 10-13
Allyn and Bacon, Inc.
1961-1963
Ctn. 9, folder 14-41
Editorial and miscellaneous material
History of Asia, 1960-1974
Ctn. 10, folder 1-3
Conroy, Hilary F., 1919-
1969-1974
folder 4-6
Iklé, Frank William, 1921-
1969-1974
folder 7-16
Allyn and Bacon, Inc.
1960-1974
folder 40-53
Volume I, preliminary draft
folder 75-88
Volume II, preliminary draft
Historical Leaders of China, 1958-1973
folder 4
Lo, Jung-pang, 1912-
[RESTRICTED UNTIL 2000]
1964-1965
Ctn. 11, folder 5-12
Editorial and publication material
folder 13-75
Drafts, by chapter and case study
Ctn. 11, folder 76-95
Grant proposals and miscellaneous materials
Ctn. 12, folder 1-43
from
History of Asia, by volume and chapter
oversize Oversize, folder 1
Textbook miscellany—chronology, maps, clippings
