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    <title>Owen Lattimore papers, 1907-1997 (bulk 1950-1989)</title>
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    <namePart>Lattimore, Owen</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1900-1989</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, journals, writings, reviews, speeches, research notes, interviews, reports, transcripts of hearings, newspaper clippings, printed materials, and other papers pertaining to Lattimore's studies in Chinese and Mongolian history and linguistics, his appointment by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a political advisor to Chiang Kai-shek, and his service as director of Pacific Operations in the U.S. Office of War Information Overseas Operations Branch during World War II, the war against Japan and American assistance in the Chinese war effort, Lattimore's postwar work as a member of the U.S. Reparations Mission to Japan, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's accusations that Lattimore was a communist and Soviet agent and subsequent Senate Foreign Relations Committee investigations (1951), and the establishment of the Lattimore Institute for Mongolian Studies.  Includes papers (1924-1970) of his wife, Eleanor Holgate Lattimore (1895-1970).</abstract>
  <abstract>Correspondents include Joseph Barnes, Robert LeMoyne Barrett, Arnold Bernhard, Stanley H. Burton, Rosemary Carruthers, Isabel Casseres, G. Herbert Childs, Lauchlin Bernard Currie, Ildikó Ecsedy, John King Fairbank, Diluv Khutagt, Else Glahn, Elvebeuck Grebenik, Walther Heissig, Caroline Humphrey, Fujiko Isono, Joseph Needham, John Ulric Nef, Robert P. Newman, Urgunge Onon, Gerard Piel, Margaret L. Richards, Edgar Snow, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, and Arnold Joseph Toynbee.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition of Reports concerning Mongolia. General records, U.S. Dept. of State. Decimal file, 1910-1929, and case no. 893.00, vol. 26, available, no. 20,336.1.</note>
  <note>Books and opera playbill transferred to Library of Congress Asian Division.</note>
  <note>Map transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.</note>
  <note>Motion picture film transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.</note>
  <note>Orientalist, author, educator, and historian; died 1989.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003022">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003022</note>
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      <namePart>Barnes, Joseph</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1907-1970</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Barrett, Robert LeMoyne</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1871-</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bernhard, Arnold</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1901-</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Burton, Stanley H</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Carruthers, Rosemary</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Casseres, Isabel</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Chiang, Kai-shek</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1887-1975</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Childs, G. Herbert (George Herbert)</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Currie, Lauchlin Bernard</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Diluv Khutagt</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1884-1964</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Ecsedy, Ildikó</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Fairbank, John King</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1907-1991</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Glahn, Else</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Grebenik, Elvebeuck</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Heissig, Walther</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Humphrey, Caroline</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Isono, Fujiko</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1918-</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>McCarthy, Joseph</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1908-1957</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Needham, Joseph</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1900-1995</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Nef, John Ulric</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1899-</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Newman, Robert P</namePart>
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      <namePart>Onon, Urgunge</namePart>
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      <namePart>Piel, Gerard</namePart>
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      <namePart>Richards, Margaret L</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1882-1945</namePart>
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      <namePart>Snow, Edgar</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1905-1972</namePart>
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      <namePart>Stefansson, Vilhjalmur</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1879-1962</namePart>
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      <namePart>Toynbee, Arnold</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1889-1975</namePart>
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      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Congress.</namePart>
      <namePart>Senate.</namePart>
      <namePart>Committee on Foreign Relations.</namePart>
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      <namePart>Office of War Information.</namePart>
      <namePart>Overseas Operations Branch.</namePart>
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      <namePart>Reparations Mission to Japan.</namePart>
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    <topic>Communism</topic>
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    <geographic>Mongolia</geographic>
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    <topic>Subversive activities</topic>
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    <topic>World War, 1939-1945</topic>
    <topic>Campaigns</topic>
    <geographic>Pacific Ocean</geographic>
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    <geographic>China</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <geographic>China</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <topic>History</topic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <temporal>1933-1945</temporal>
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