The letters, most with original mailing envelopes, are from an American woman tourist, a Chinese student at a Christian missionary school, US Army and Marine soldiers, an American or British businessman, and a Chinese Christian missionary
1921 letter from an American woman tourist, on stationery of China Navigation Company, S.S.Tungting, on the Yangtse River near Nanking, describing the picturesque river scenes as she sailed from Shanghai to Hankow; 1923 typed letter from a Christian student at Ningpo to an American friend, about the “patriotic” student protests against Japan’s “21 demands” for political and economic dominance in China; incomplete copy of Rev. H.G.C.Hallock’s [China] Almanac for 1928, printed on very fragile paper, which the veteran American missionary issued in Shanghai for nearly twenty years; 1934 typed letter from a young US Army Private of the 15th Infantry, Tientsin, who had “kept myself clean and out of jail”, complaining about all the “old timers” in his regiment who were reluctant to return to America; 1932 letter from an American or British businessman, Hong Kong, to his daughter in Shanghai, about the Korean revolutionary bombing of a Shanghai park frequented by Japanese; 1936 printed letter, with a hand-colored calendar sheet, apparently from a Chinese Christian missionary at the China Inland Mission, Kanhsien, Kiangsi; 1947 letter from a US Marine, Peiping, recording the sad incident of a group of Chinese children killed while playing at a Marine shooting range, and regretting the withdrawal US troops from China in a looming Cold War with the Soviet Union