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Collection Overview
Biographical Note
Grace Fox was born December 25, 1899 in Washington, D.C. to Edmund Fox and Florence Weaver Fox. She graduated from Vassar in 1922 and went on to Columbia University where she earned her M.A. in 1925 and her Ph.D. in 1940. Ms Fox's field of study was British policy in the Far East. She died in February of 1984.
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McDaniel College
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Acquisition Source:
Grace Estelle Fox
Acquisition Method:
Bequest
Related Materials:
Grace Estelle Fox Papers, 1925-1970 at Columbia University Libraries Archival Collections For more information please see http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4078369/summary.
Preferred Citation:
Grace Estelle Fox Collection, 1889-1989,MS2013.05; McDaniel College Archives, Westminster, Maryland
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Citing Archival Collections
Processing Information:
All records regarding the UNRRA were kept in original order. Printed duplicates of Grace Fox's articles were removed. When the Fox-Weaver house was being put up for sale in 1989 the College's archivist had all papers in books from the house removed and kept. Most of these papers refer to Korea, China, and Japan. A list of books from the Fox-Weaver was not within the papers transferred to the Archives.
Box and Folder Listing
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Series 1: Correspondence and Papers of Florence Weaver Fox, 1889-1898],
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Series 2: Papers of Grace Fox],
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Series 3: Estate of Grace Fox Papers, 1974-1990],
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- Series 1: Correspondence and Papers of Florence Weaver Fox, 1889-1898
- This series contains mostly the letters sent to Florence Weaver from her fiancé Edmund Fox. Also included are papers and correspondence concerning Florence's joining the D.A.R, her diaries of summer travels 1889-1891, and photographs.
- Box B00381: 1896-1897
- Folder F0003520: Letters To Florence Weaver From Edmund Fox, September - October 1896
- Folder F0003521: Letters To Florence Weaver From Edmund Fox, November 1896
- Folder F0003522: Letters To Florence Weaver From Edmund Fox, December 1896
- Folder F0003523: Letters To Florence Weaver From Edmund Fox, January 1897
- Folder F0003524: Letters To Florence Weaver From Edmund Fox, February 1897
- Box B00382: 1897
- Folder F0003525: Letters To Florence Weaver From Edmund Fox, March 16-31, 1897
- Folder F0003526: Letters To Florence Weaver From Edmund Fox, April 1897
- Folder F0003527: Letters To Florence Weaver From Edmund Fox, May 1897
- Folder F0003528: Commencement Invitation and Program, June 7, 1897
- Commencement invitiaion and program for Geartown University's Law Department. Also Photograph of Edmund Fox and another young man.
- Folder F0003529: Letters To Florence Weaver From Edmund Fox, June 1897
- Folder F0003530: Letters To Florence Weaver From Edmund Fox, July 1897
- Folder F0003531: Letters To Florence Weaver From Edmund Fox, August 1897
- Box B00383: 1897-1898
- Folder F0003531: Letters To Florence Weaver From Edmund Fox, September 1897
- Folder F0003532: Letters To Florence Weaver From Edmund Fox, October 1897
- Folder F0003533: Letters To Florence Weaver From Edmund Fox, November 1897
- Folder F0003534: Letters To Florence Weaver From Edmund Fox, December 1897
- Folder F0003535: Letters To Florence Weaver From Edmund Fox, January 1898
- Folder F0003536: Wedding, January- February 1898
- Includes invoices, regrets, and a letter with wedding wishes from her friend Nancy. Florence Weaver married Edmund Fox on February 2, 1898.
- Folder F0003537: Letters from Edmund Fox, 1898
Three letters from Edmund Fox :
One to his wife, April 1898
Two to his in-laws Dr. and Mrs. Weaver, October 1898
- Box B00384: 1889-1894
- Folder F0003538: Diary of Florence Weaver, Summer 1889
- European trip. Two note books
- Folder F0003539: Diary of Florence Weaver, August-November 1890
- During August and September Florence Weaver traveled throughout the mid west and western United States.
- Folder F0003540: Diary of Florence Weaver, August 1891 and 1893
- During August of 1891 Florence traveled through South Carolina, New York, Montreal, Quebec, and new York City. This diary also contains her account of visiting the 1893 Exposition in Chicago.
- Folder F0003541: Beulah A. Weaver, Receipt Book, circa 1894
- Note book containg recipes for cements to mend irons and pot, ochre wash for walls and cakes, icings, muffins, and an asparagus souffle.
- Box B00385: 1863- 1910
- Folder F0003542: Papers, 1863-1898
- Bulk of material from 1890s includes programs, notes, calling cards, invoices, writing paper, October 1894 issue of "Spirit of '76," and a grade report for Jacob Weaver from the Preparatory Department of Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, 1863.
- Folder F0003543: American Sentinel, December 21, 1894
- Folder F0003544: Florence Weaver D. A. R. in Maryland, 1894-1897
- Includes a copy of the Proposed Constitution of the Maryland Society Daughters of the American Revolution.
- Folder F0003534: Letters to Florence Weaver, 1894-1895
- Letters from friends and family.
- Folder F0003546: Letters to Florence Weaver, 1897
- Letters from friends and family.
- Folder F0003547: Photographic Print,, June 1910
- Photographic print signed " To my dear friends, the Weavers from "Grandpap (illegible)."
- Series 2: Papers of Grace Fox
- Box B00386: United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA)
All the the records in this box were rehoused in new folders, however original titles and order were kept except where noted.
For more inofrmation on UNRRA go to the United Nations Archives online: http://archives.un.org
- Folder F0003548: UNRRA Chronological File, 1943-1944
- Copies of letters and reports.
- Folder F0003549: UNRRA Chronological File, 1945
- Letters and reports
- Folder F0003550: UNRRA Chronological File, January 1-July 31, 1946
- Copies of letters and reports
- Folder F0003551: UNRRA Chronological File, 1946-1947
- Copies of letters and reports. This folder titled by Archivist.
- Folder F0003552: UNRRA Chronological File, August 1947- August 1948
- Copies of letters and reports.
- Folder F0003553: The Scope of UNRRA, 1942-1945
- Organization analysis, surveys, and histories.
- Folder F0003554: Action and Opinions of the British Committee on Administration of Territories, European Division, July 2, 1942 - August 19, 1942
- Digest of meetings 1-32 and 34; Copy No. 9 10/30/43.
- Folder F0003555: UNRRA The Council, circa 1948
- Draft and copies.
- Folder F0003556: The Committee System, 1948
- Author, Grace Fox, UNRRA Historian
- Box B00387: Grace Fox Papers
- Folder F0003557: UNRRA Accolades, 1948
- Includes letter, and citation.
- Folder F0003558: Photographs from UNRRA File, undated
- Two photographic prints - both unidentified. One of a mid- century modern complex and the other of a young girl with a chicken.
- Folder F0003559: In the Court of St. James, June 1971
- Article on the American Ambassadors to England and the embassy in London. Stanford Alumni Almanac.
- Folder F0003560: Project I: Outline: Influence of the British Admiralty in the Opening of China and Japan to British Trade 1834-1868, Undated
- Folder F0003561: Research on Piracy off the Coast of Hong Kong., 1959
- Communication from captains of British ships between 1855-1864.
- Folder F0003562: Research Notebook
- Contains notes from her research for a book on the British Admiralty and Chinese pirates from 1832-1968.
- Folder F0003563: Reasearch, 1961 - 1966
- Letters and notes from her research for a book on the British Admiralty and Chinese pirates from 1832-1968.
- Folder F0003564: Letter: From Yoshi to Grace Fox, April 4, 1959
- Letter contained enclosure of Yoshi's research into four scrolls from the Temple Kozanji, Toganoo, Japan that were attributed to Toba-sôjô Kakuyû.
- Folder F0003565: Articles Published by Grace Fox, 1935-1950
Includes the following reprints of published articles:
"The Reception of Lord Durham's Report in the English Press," The Canadian Historcal Review, September, 1935
"Women Domestic Workers in Washington, D.C., 1940," Monthly Labor Review, February, 1942, Bureau of Labor Statistics
"The Anglo-Japanese Conversation of 1854," The Pacific Historical Review, December, 1941
"The Origins of UNRRA," Political Science Quarterly, December, 1950
- Folder F0003566: Book Reviews written by Grace Fox, 1958 and 1969
- Notes and drafts.
- Folder F0003567: Lecture notes, undated
- Folder F0003568: Talk on Chinese Piracy, 1939
- This talk was given before the Women's Club of Westminster, MD in December, 1939.
- Folder F0003569: Library Critique, undated
- List of books by subject with notes.
- Folder F0003570: Four Letters, an Eulogy and a Poem, 1931, 1947, 1952 and undated
Letter: from E. S. Cartwright of Oxford University Tutorial Committee to Grace Fox, October, 1931.
Three letters from attorneys concerning Grace Fox's sister's estate, 1947.
Eulogy for Margaret Raub Fox, 1952.
Poem about Grace Fox, undated.
- Folder F0003571: Notebook, 1974
- Notebook lists exercises and practices for chewing , speaking, and breath control.
- Folder F0003572: Papers Removed from Grace Fox's Books, 1989
- Most of the papers removed refer to Korea, China, and Japan.
- Series 3: Estate of Grace Fox Papers, 1974-1990
- Box B00389
- Folder F0003572: Fox- Weaver House, 1974-1990
- Folder F0003573: Inventory of Carroll Hall, 1989
- Most items on this inventory are from the Fox-Weaver House
- Folder F0003574: Photographs of furniture and Decorative Items from the Fox- Weaver House, 1989
- Folder F0003577: Fox, Grace, 1943-1984
- Item 1: Book, Dictionary of International Biography, 1977
- Item 2: Needle point book cover
- Flame Stiich
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Series 2: Papers of Grace Fox],
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