Eleanor Lord Pray papers, 1894-1975 (bulk 1894-1930).

Open to research.

Chiefly correspondence of Pray with family members relating to her daily life in Vladivostok, Russia; family affairs; social life of the expatriate community; her surroundings in and around Vladivostok; and historic events. Also includes transcripts of a portion of Pray's correspondence prepared by her granddaughter, Patricia D. Silver; correspondence of Eleanor's husband, Frederick S. Pray; photographs; and miscellanous material. Subjects include the "American Store," a general store owned by her sister-in-law, Sarah E. Smith, and Sarah's husband, Charles Smith; Pray's work for the Vladivostok Chapter of the American Red Cross, 1919-1924; and her travels to Japan and to Harbin and Shanghai, China. Other subjects include the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905, and the Japanese attack on Vladivostok in 1905; first Russian Revolution, 1905-1907; World War I; forced removal of German citizens from Vladivostok during the war; second Russian Revolution, 1917-1921; taking of Vladivostok by the Legie česká (Czechoslovak Legion), June-July 1918; Allied intervention in Siberia, 1918-1920; occupation of Vladivostok by the Japanese military, 1918-1922; the Dalʹnevostochnai͡a Respublika (Far Eastern Republic) and Provisional Priamur governments of Siberia, 1921-1922; return of the Bolsheviks in 1922; and life under Soviet rule during the 1920s. Topics also include Soviet censorship of the mail and the arrival in Vladivostok of the official U.S. commercial agent, Richard Theodore Greener, in 1898. Correspondence with Pray's daughter, Dorothy Pray, and her sister-in-law, Sarah E. Smith, pertains to their life in Shanghai, China, and to Dorothy's school years at the Shanghai American School.

The Vladivostok Album by Eleanor Lord Pray, edited by Birgitta Ingemanson (2012) transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Member of a New England merchant family living in Vladivostok, Russia, from the 1890s to the early 1930s. Full name: Eleanor Roxanna Lord Pray; also known as Roxy.

Collection material in English, with Russian.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012200