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This material was donated by Dr. Kenneth E. Shewmaker to E. Grey Dimond in April 1987.

This folder contains letters from Edgar Snow to Dr. Shewmaker concerning his request for information on Agnes Smedley, his book, and a proposed project for Snow.

Scope and Contents These materials were donated by Kuan-Mien Lu and removed from the Mary Clark Dimond Papers in July 1985.This folder contains correspondence from Kuan-Mien Lu to Mary Clark Dimond concerning the UMKC commencement honoring Edgar Snow, and Lu's visit to the United States. The folder also includes a typed manuscript article by Edgar Snow, "Indusco Pioneers of the Northwest," written in 1939, concerning Lu's leadership role in Indusco; and an article concerning UMKC's commencement...

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This material was donated by Lois Wheeler Snow, widow of Edgar Snow, in April 1988.

The major portion of Lois Wheeler Snow's papers relate to the 1982 symposium held in China commemorating the tenth anniversary of Edgar Snow's death. It consists primarily of printed material.

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This material was given to Dr. William Woodward by his mother's cousin, Malcolm W. Lyon, and donated to E. Grey Dimond.

This material consists of photographs of China taken by Malcolm Lyon from 1925 to approximately 1927 when he was in the U.S. Navy. These photographs predate when Edgar Snow arrived in China for the first time in 1928. The photographs were originally stored in photo albums and disbound for easier preservation and access.

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The Mary Clark Dimond Papers are divided into divisions and sections which reflect her personal life and her many civic activities. Her papers include correspondence; personal, academic, and professional documents; diaries and writings; condolence papers; and audiovisual materials. Additional information on China and the Dimonds’ associations there can be found in the China Files (KC-19-10).

Scope and Contents The Nym Wales papers document American journalist Helen Foster Snow's activities when she reported from China in the 1930s under the name Nym Wales. She reported on the developing Chinese Civil War, the Korean independence movement, and the Second Sino-Japanese War. The materials include her reminiscences of her time reporting in China between 1933 through 1937. Helen married Edgar Snow in 1932 and interviewed Chinese Communist leaders in Yan'an alongside her husband in 1937. The couple...

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This material consists of correspondence between New Zealand-born writer and political activist Rewi Alley and Edgar Snow, and includes discussions of personal matters, trips, mutual acquaintances, publications, and world and Chinese conditions. The papers also include Rewi Alley's poetry and photographs.

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This material was donated by Robert E. Rosenwald, a classmate of Edgar Snow's in grade school and high school, in May 1987.

This collection contains a 1923 yearbook and the thirty-first annual commencement program for Westport High School of Kansas City, Missouri. Edgar Snow was a 1923 graduate from the high school and is listed in the commencement program.

Scope and Contents This copy of a letter was sent to E. Grey Dimond by Kenneth Krakauer, whose father was a business acquaintance of Edgar Snow's father.The letter is from Edgar Snow, dated August 22, 1932, to his father, James Edgar Snow. It describes the Chinese commemorative stamps Edgar sent to his father, an avid stamp collector. It also tells of the current political situation in China, such as Japan controlling Manchuria and the potential for Communists in the country to start a...

Scope and Contents This material was donated by Theodore Herman, a friend of Edgar Snow's, and removed from the Mary Clark Dimond Papers in July 1985.This material consists of correspondence between Theodore Herman, a professor at Colgate University, and Edgar Snow, regarding a possible lecture by Snow at Colgate. The correspondence includes discussion of Snow's documentary film "One Fourth of Humanity: The China Story," and of the student unrest at Colgate. The papers also contain photographs of...

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This folder contains excerpts from writer Wang Fu Shih's book Wao Guo Ji Zhe Xi Bei Yin Xiang Ji (Impressions of the North-west by a Foreign Journalist), his speech commemorating the 80th birthday of Edgar Snow, and copies of three letters to Wang from Helen Foster Snow and James Bertram. The folder also includes a letter to the Edgar Snow Memorial Foundation, dated October 1, 1985, explaining his donation to the Edgar Snow Collection.

Scope and Contents Dorothy Yao donated folders 1 and 2, which contain a letter written by Edgar Snow to her husband Yao Hsin-nung, journalist, in September 1969; and a poem her daughter Hilda H. Yao wrote in memory of her father when he passed away in 1991. Hilda H. Yao donated folder 3 in 2005. Included in the documents file are photographs of Edgar Snow with the Yao family; correspondence between Snow and Yao Hsin-nung; a elegy to Lu Xun written in Chinese and translated into English by Hilda...

Scope and Contents This collection contains Ying Ruocheng's collected photographs that were previously used for a traveling exhibit. Many of the photographs have pencil inscriptions on the back written in Chinese. The first half of the collection (photographs labeled A through G) includes photographs that illustrate Chinese theatre performances of playwright Cao Yu's plays. The second half of the collection (photographs labeled H-AA) includes stills from other theatre productions performed by the Beijing...