Melby, John F. Papers

FOLDER TITLE LIST

Box 1

CHINA FILE

• General - 1938-1945
• Maps - 1945
• General - 1946 (January-May)
• General - 1949 (June-December)
• American Embassy - 1946
• Chinese-American Agricultural Collaboration Commission - 1946
• Diary - 1946
• List of periodicals in Shanghai - June 1946
• News and Views - Bulletin of the Press Bureau of the Embassy of the USSR in China - 1947 (3 folders)

Box 2

• General - 1947 (January-May)
• General - 1947 (June-December)
• News and Views - Bulletin of the Press Bureau of the Embassy of the USSR in China - 1947 (3 folders)
• "Notes on Local Government in Szechuan" by A. Dook Barnet
• "The Peitashu Incident" - July 1947
• The Shanghai Newsletter - 1947
• "Situation of Chinese Vernacular Press" - July 1947
• Special and feature articles - 1947
• "Supplementary English News Service - New China News Agency" - 1947

Box 3

• General - 1948 (January-May)
• General - 1948 (June-December)
• "Communist Suppression in Hainan" - report - 1948
• New China News Agency (Communist) - 1948
• Press Review - 1948 (January-May)
• Press Review - 1948 (June-August)
• Press Review - 1948 (September-December)

Box 4

• Republic of China - biographies of Kuomintang leaders - 1948 (3 folders)
• Republic of China - government organization - September 1, 1948
• United States Educational Foundation in China - 1948
• Marshall College (West Virginia) - lecture - "Some Aspects of American-Chinese-Soviet Relations in the Far East" - June 1949
• Department of State - Roundtable Discussion - "American Policy Toward China" - October 6-8, 1949

Box 5

• Publications - 1944-1948
• General - 1949-1952
• Drafts of speeches and telegrams

FAR EAST FILE

• General Headquarters Armed Forces in Far East (2 folders)
• Pacific Security - 1949-1952

Box 6

PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE FILE

• 1945-1946
• 1947
• 1948 (January-May)
• 1948 (June-December)
• 1949
• 1950
• 1951-1952

PHILIPPINE FILE

• General - 1948
• General - 1949 (January-September)
• General - 1949 (October-December)

Box 7

• Economic Report - 1949 - Part 1 "Present Economic Difficulties"
• Economic Report - 1949 - Part 2 "Development Problems and Politics"
• General - 1950 (January-May)
• General - 1950 (June-December)
• General - 1951 (January-May)
• General - 1951 (June-December)
• General - 1952
• Cowen-Melby correspondence - 1949-1950

Box 8

• Cowen-Melby correspondence - 1951 (January-March)
• Cowen-Melby correspondence - 1951 (April-May)
• Cowen-Melby correspondence - 1951 (June-July)
• Cowen-Melby correspondence - 1951 (August-December)

PRESS RELEASE FILE

• Press releases, 1949-1952

SOUTH PACIFIC COMMISION FILE

• Transcript of meeting - 8th session - 1951 (2 folders)

SOUTHEAST ASIA FILE

• General - 1948-1949

Box 9

• General - 1950-1952
• Joint State-Defense Department - Mutual Defense Assistance Program (MDAP) Survey - 1950-1951
• Military Group Joint MDAP Survey - 1950
• Southeast Asia Regional Conference - Bangkok, Siam - June 21-26, 1948 (2 folders)

Box 10

• Family and personal correspondence - 1950
• Harriman, W. Averell - memo of conversation with Melby re the Yalta Agreements and the Far East, June 15, 1951
• Indonesia - general - 1950
• Philippines - Summary of Facts re U.S. Philippine War Damage Commission
• Philippine and Southeast Asian Affairs, Office of (2 folders)

Box 11

• Press - Indochina - July 15-August 3, 1950
• Press - Philippines (Manila) - September-October 1950
• Press - Singapore - Malaya - August 1950
• Press - Thailand - Chinese and Siamese language newspaper clippings
• Press - United States Information Service

1950 (CHRONOLOGICAL FILE)

Box 12

• May-July
• August 1-15
• August 16-31
• September 1-15
• September 16-31
• October
• November-December

1951 (CHRONOLOGICAL FILE)

• January-April
• Undated documents
• Undated publications

DEPARTMENT OF STATE, DIVISION OF AMERICAN REPUBLICS

Box 13

• Bolivia - rubber agreements with the United States
• Brazil-Argentine relations
• Foreign policy reports on Brazil
• Manuscript, Rubber River: Being an Account of the Rise and Collapse of the Amazon Boom by John F. Melby (Draft 1)
• Introduction
• Chapter I - "Rubber Origins"
• Chapter II - "Rubber Boom"
• Chapter III - "Rubber Man"
• Chapter IV - "Rubber Scandal"
• Chapter V - "Rubber War"
• Chapter VI - "Rubber Government"
• Chapter VII - "Rubber Problem"

Box 14

• Draft II
• Introduction-Chapter 2
• Chapters 3-4
• Chapters 5-6
• Chapters 7-8
• Military Agreements with the United States
• Chile - correspondence re Chile and Peru, 1942
• Colombia - Gran Colombia Nations, collaboration among
• Peru - telegrams, 1940-1943
• Ecuador - Agriculture
• Ecuador - Aviation

Box 15

• Ecuador - Geographic reports
• Ecuador - Report of Preliminary Relief and Survey Mission, El Oro Province, March-April 1945
• Ecuador - Military
• Ecuador - Nester, Alfred T., Charge d'Affaires - correspondence, 1942-1943
• Ecuador - Subversive activities
• Ecuador - Territorial organizations and distribution
• Ecuador - Trade and economic reports
• Ecuador - Miscellaneous
• Peru - Agriculture
• Peru - Aprista Party
• Peru - Cities and roads
• Peru - Colombia-Leticia Affair
• Peru - Japanese
• Peru - Political

Box 16

• Peru - Rubber
• Peru-Ecuador boundary dispute (folders 1-4)

Box 17

• Peru-Ecuador boundary dispute (folders 5-8)

Box 18

• Peru-Ecuador boundary dispute (folders 9-10)
• Peru-Ecuador boundary dispute - Neutral Observers Reports

Box 19

• Ecuador - Dispatches (4 folders)

Box 20

• Peru - Telegrams (3 folders)
• Peru - Dispatches (folder 1)

Box 21

• Peru - Dispatches (folders 2-3)
• Reports and bulletins - Latin American countries - miscellaneous

Box 22

• Latin America - miscellaneous correspondence re
• Neutral Observers Reports re Peru-Ecuador boundary dispute
• Notes and Dispatches from Peru (2 folders)
• Peru - Miscellaneous
• Peru-Ecuador technical advisers
• Publications re Peru-Ecuador boundary dispute

Box 23

• Document from the Ecuadoran Government - United States Embassy
• Document from the Peruvian Government - United States Embassy
• Letters from the American Embassy, Lima
• Miscellaneous materials re Peru-Ecuador boundary dispute (2 folders)
• Mexico - "Agrarian phase of the Mexican Revolution" by Harley Notter, 1938
• Mexico - Correspondence from American Embassy, Mexico City - personal
• Mexico - Inspection trip through the Norman Colonies, 1938
• Mexico - "Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Ancient Maya," English version by Delia Goetz and Syvanius G. Morley - newspaper clippings re

Box 24

• Spain - miscellaneous dispatches, press releases and papers
• United Nations Conference on International Organization, June 23, 1945
• Uruguay - memoranda re, July 2, 1941
• Venezuela - Amazon Basin
• Wells, Summer, address - Foreign Policy Association dinner, New York Times, October 17, 1943

PERSONAL AND FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE

• Biographical Information - Curriculum Vitae on Melby
• Letters from Melby's father, Harry C. Melby, 1922-1945 (3 folders)

Box 25

• Letters from Melby's mother, Mrs. Harry C. Melby, 1935-1945 (3 folders)
• Letters from Melby's wife, Florence Melby, 1925-1942
• Letters from Melby's sister, Mary E. Melby, 1936-1942

Box 26

• Letters from Melby's brother, Everett K. Melby, 1935-1942 (2 folders)
• Letters from friends of John F. Melby, 1931-1945
• Letters from Lillian Hellman, 1945
• Programs, receipts - miscellaneous
• Personal correspondence, 1933-1968
• Personal Correspondence, 1969-1971
• Miscellaneous papers re employment possibilities, 1953

MANUSCRIPTS FILE: China

Box 27

• Article re China - "China Today" by Owen Lattimore
• Article re China - "China: Many Changes in Four Years" by John S. Service
• Articles on China - miscellaneous authors
• Articles on China - A-H
• Articles on China - K-N
• Articles on China - P-W
• Articles on China - Unidentified
• Bills and receipts - Melby's trip to China, 1973
• Chinese Government publications, 1948
• Correspondence re China - general, 1966-1969
• Correspondence re China - general, 1970-1974

Box 28

• Correspondence re China - general, 1975-1977
• Correspondence re China - George Ayers, 1969-1970
• Correspondence re China Studies Program at the University of Guelph, 1968-1970 (2 folders)

MANUSCRIPTS FILE: Mandate of Heaven

• Book reviews, 1968-1969
• Correspondence re, 1968-1969
• Correspondence re, 1970-1976
• Reading Copy

Box 29

• Drafts (4 folders)

MANUSCRIPTS FILE: Gold Bars and Concubines

• Drafts (3 folders)

Box 30

• Correspondence re Gold Bars and Concubines and other manuscripts, 1955-1968
• Course Paper, "United States Relations with China, 1945-1947: The Marshall Mission and the American Press," by Stanley A. Kochanck, June 1958 written for Professor John F. Melby, University of Pennsylvania
• Library of Congress, Public Affairs Bulletin No. 77, October 1949, The China White Paper by Francis Valeo
• Miscellaneous articles by John F. Melby - "The Tyranny of Liberty"
• Miscellaneous articles by John F. Melby - "The Attack on McCarthyism"
• Miscellaneous articles by John F. Melby - "The China Tangle"
• Chinese Press Review - Department of State, 1947 (4 folders)

Box 31

• Miscellaneous Press releases re China, 1947

MANUSCRIPTS FILE: Miscellaneous Articles

• Africa - Middle East
• Asia
• Cambodia
• Cuba
• Europe
• India
• Indonesia
• Japan-Korea
• Latin America
• Pearl Harbor
• Philippines
• South Africa
• Vietnam

MANUSCRIPTS FILE: Articles and Speeches by John F. Melby

Box 32

• "Maoism as a World Force" reprinted from The Annuals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Philadelphia, Vol. 402 (July 1972)
• "China and Japan," Canadian Institute of International Affairs reprinted from Vol. XXVI, No. 3 (Summer 1971), International Journal
• "The Cold War-Second Phase: China," Canadian Institute of International Affairs, reprinted from Vol. XXIII, No. 3 (Summer 1968) International Journal
• "The Origins of the Cold War in China," reprinted from Pacific Affairs, Vol. XLI, No. 1 (Spring 1968), University of British Columbia
• "China and the West"
• "Making of the White Paper"
• "The Chinese Revolution"
• The View from the Embassy
• The Continuity of Chinese Foreign Policy"
• "The Role of the Government"
• "Shadows on the Tapestry," Canadian Institute of International Affairs, International Journal, Vol. XXVIII, No. 2 (Spring 1973)
• "For Poor Lands: Reform or Revolt," The Rotarian, June 1969
• "The Philippines"
• Notes on Articles (handwritten by Melby)
• Articles re China and Asia by other authors reviewed by Melby
• Book reviews on China by John F. Melby
• Correspondence re articles and books re China and Asia, 1944-1977 (folder 1)

Box 33

• Correspondence re articles and books re China and Asia, 1944-1977 (folder 2)
• Speeches by John F. Melby
• Speeches re guerrilla warfare by W.W. Rostov and J.K. Zawodvey

CANADA FILE (UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH)

• Aims and objectives, University of Guelph, April 1972
• American Historical Association, 1967-1969
• "Asia in Perspective," Paper by Professor William L. Holland
• The Asian Society
• Association for Asian Studies
• Canada - general
• "Canada, Asia and the United States" by Chester Ronning
• "Canada's Trade with Asia" by Alben Hamilton, M.P.
• Canadian Institute of International Affairs
• Canadian Institute of Public Affairs

Box 34

• Canadian Labour Congress
• Citizens Advisory Committee on Urban Renewal
• Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars
• Correspondence - Canada
• Department of National Defense
• Department of State - Washington, D.C.
• Donner Canadian Foundation
• Foreign Policy Association
• Fugh, Philip - correspondence re, 1969-1970
• International Affairs Society
• International House of Philadelphia
• Northwest Angle re boundary between Minnesota and Ontario - correspondence with Senator Walter F. Mondale and Ambassador W. Walton Butterworth
• Peacekeeping, Conference on, Queen's College and the National Defense College, February 26, 1967
• Wellington College, University of Guelph

GENERAL FILE

• Africa - trusteeship - reports on Ruanda-Urundi, 1948-1950
• Alfaro, Eloy International Foundation
• "Construction of the United States together with an Account of its Travels since September 17, 1787" compiled by David Mearns and Verner W. Clapp, Library of Congress, 1952
• "How I answered Joe McCarthy" by anonymous

Box 35

• Letters - general, 1965-1992(2 folders)
• Publications
• Vietnam War - newspaper clippings and magazine articles re (2 folders)
• Cross reference sheets

Box 36

• Letters from John F. Melby to Lillian Hellman [1 of 9]
• Letters from John F. Melby to Lillian Hellman [2 of 9]
• Letters from John F. Melby to Lillian Hellman [3 of 9]
• Letters from John F. Melby to Lillian Hellman [4 of 9]
• Letters from John F. Melby to Lillian Hellman [5 of 9]
• Letters from John F. Melby to Lillian Hellman [6 of 9]
• Letters from John F. Melby to Lillian Hellman [7 of 9]
• Letters from John F. Melby to Lillian Hellman [8 of 9]
• Letters from John F. Melby to Lillian Hellman [9 of 9]
• Letters to John F. Melby from Lillian Hellman
• Miscellaneous Personal Letters

Box 37

• Letters between John F. Melby and Professor Robert Newman re "Cold War Romance between Lillian Hellman and John Melby" [1 of 6]
• Letters between John F. Melby and Professor Robert Newman re "Cold War Romance between Lillian Hellman and John Melby" [2 of 6]
• Letters between John F. Melby and Professor Robert Newman re "Cold War Romance between Lillian Hellman and John Melby" [3 of 6]
• Letters between John F. Melby and Professor Robert Newman re "Cold War Romance between Lillian Hellman and John Melby" [4 of 6]
• Letters between John F. Melby and Professor Robert Newman re "Cold War Romance between Lillian Hellman and John Melby" [5 of 6]
• Letters between John F. Melby and Professor Robert Newman re "Cold War Romance between Lillian Hellman and John Melby" [6 of 6]

Box 38

• Harlee Chandler, "The Discipline of Circumstances" [1 of 4]
• Harlee Chandler, "The Discipline of Circumstances" [2 of 4]
• Harlee Chandler, "The Discipline of Circumstances" [3 of 4]
• Harlee Chandler, "The Discipline of Circumstances" [4 of 4]
• Soviet War Propaganda [1 of 2]
• Soviet War Propaganda [2 of 2]
• Draft of Melby's Manuscript on United States Foreign Policy
• "Letters of a Russian Diplomat to an American Friend" [1 of 4]

Box 39

• "Letters of a Russian Diplomat to an American Friend" [2 of 4]
• "Letters of a Russian Diplomat to an American Friend" [3 of 4]
• "Letters of a Russian Diplomat to an American Friend" [4 of 4]
• Miscellaneous Correspondence re China - Book Reviews by John F. Melby

Box 40

• Manuscript, "Rubber River" [Melby's PhD Dissertation, University of Texas at El Paso] [1 of 3]
• Manuscript, "Rubber River" [Melby's PhD Dissertation, University of Texas at El Paso] [2 of 3]
• Manuscript, "Rubber River" [Melby's PhD Dissertation, University of Texas at El Paso] [3 of 3]
• Brazil - Antigua
• Ecuador - Rubber
• Correspondence with Truman Library and the Hoover Institute [re Melby's papers]
• Brasil Constroi No. 10
• President Sukarno's Visit to the United States, May 16 to June 3, 1956

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