Grace Estelle Fox Papers, 1889-1989 | McDaniel College

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Collection Overview

Title: Grace Estelle Fox Papers, 1889-1989

Predominant Dates:1889-1950

ID: MS/2013.05

Primary Creator: Fox, Grace (b. 1899)

Extent: 7.0 Boxes

Arrangement: Genre and chronological

Date Acquired: 02/09/1989

Subjects: British - China - History - 19th Century, China, Letters - Courtship - 1890-1900, Pirates - China - History, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

Languages: English

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.

Subject/Index Terms

British - China - History - 19th Century
China
Letters - Courtship - 1890-1900
Pirates - China - History
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

Administrative Information

Repository: McDaniel College

Use Restrictions:

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Copying: Papers may be copied in accordance with the Archives usual procedures.

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

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Correspondence and Papers of Florence Weaver Fox, 1889-1898],
[Series 2: Papers of Grace Fox],
[Series 3: Estate of Grace Fox Papers, 1974-1990],
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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.