Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 26 - 30 of 30

Rewi Alley Papers

 Collection
Identifier: KC-19-7
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1930-1971

Robert E. Rosenwald Collection of Westport High School Materials

 Collection
Identifier: KC-19-27
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1923

Snow Family Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: KC-19-41
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...
Dates: 1932 August 22

Wang Fu Shih Papers

 Collection
Identifier: KC-19-14
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1937, 1985

Yao Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: KC-19-46
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...
Dates: 1969, undated