Pearl S. Buck, Author, Literary Manuscripts, ca. 1923-2014 A&M 4052

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Repository

West Virginia and Regional History Center

Identification

A&M 4052

Title

Pearl S. Buck, Author, Literary Manuscripts ca. 1923-2014 ca. 1923-1973

URL:

https://archives.lib.wvu.edu/ark:/99999/198663

Quantity

36.7 Linear Feet, 36 ft. 8 in. (74 document cases, 5 in. each); (2 document cases, 2 1/2 in. each); (1 flat storage box, 5 in.); (2 flat storage boxes, 1 1/2 in. each); (3 record cartons, 15 in. each); (7 large flat storage boxes, 1 1/2 in. each)

Location

West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / Fax: 304-293-3981 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/

Language

English

Abstract

Literary manuscripts of Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), an American fiction writer and humanitarian who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938. She is best known for her novels about peasant life in China. The collection includes the great majority of manuscripts comprising Buck's literary works, including her novels, non-fiction, children's books, and short stories, as well as articles and speeches, among other material. There is also material about Pearl Buck. Formats include holographs, typescripts, typescript carbons, mixed manuscripts, galleys, and more. Prominent topics of Buck's literary works include: Chinese history, politics, and culture; American culture; international relations; adoption; children with disabilities; women's rights; and writing. The collection also includes material regarding the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation, Pearl Buck as an author, and other subjects. For additional material, see A&M 727, Pearl S. Buck, Author. Papers (1930-1976, undated).

Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Pearl S. Buck, Author, Literary Manuscripts, A&M 4052, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Biographical / Historical

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, in 1892 to Caroline Stulting Sydenstricker and Absalom Sydenstricker, Southern Presbyterian missionaries who returned to China shortly after their daughter's birth. Pearl was raised and educated in Chinkiang (Zhenjiang), China, but studied in the United States at Randolph Macon Women's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, when she was seventeen. She returned to China after her graduation in 1914, and in 1917 Pearl married agricultural economist and missionary John Lossing Buck. The Bucks lived in Nanhsuchou (Nanxuzhou) in rural Anhwei (Anhui) Province and later in Nanking (Nanjing), China, until 1934. They had one biological daughter, Carol, who had severe intellectual and physical disabilities, and adopted another daughter, Janice.

Pearl began writing about Chinese peasant life and culture and the interactions between East and West in the 1920s, and her first novel, East Wind, West Wind, was published in 1930. She published the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Good Earth in 1931, and went on to write more than seventy novels, plays, and short stories and to author numerous articles and essays. Other early books include Sons (1932), A House Divided (1935), The First Wife and Other Stories (1933), All Men are Brothers (1933, translation), The Mother (1934), The Exile (1936), Fighting Angel (1936), and This Proud Heart (1938). In 1938, Pearl Buck became the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.

By 1935, Pearl had divorced her first husband and married her publisher and editor, Richard J. Walsh. They settled at Green Hills Farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, to be close to Carol, and the couple adopted six more children. Pearl was a prolific writer, and most of her fiction remained set in China and the Far East. Other novels include Dragon Seed (1942), Pavilion of Women (1946), God's Men (1951), Come, My Beloved (1953), Imperial Woman (1956), Letter from Peking (1957), and The Living Reed (1963). Due to personal and political circumstances, Pearl never returned to China after she left in 1934.

Pearl campaigned tirelessly for issues related to Chinese human rights, interracial understanding, and orphaned and disabled children for the rest of her life. In 1949, she founded Welcome House, the first interracial adoption agency in the United States. In 1964, she established the Pearl S. Buck Foundation to provide medical care and education for Amerasian children. Pearl also championed civil rights and women's rights in the United States.

Richard Walsh died in 1960, and in the early 1960s Pearl began a loving relationship with lifelong friend William Ernest Hocking that lasted until Hocking's death in 1966. By 1969, Pearl had moved to Danby, Vermont. Pearl S. Buck died in Vermont in 1973 and is buried at Green Hills Farm in Pennsylvania.

After her death, ownership of Pearl Buck's literary manuscripts was disputed, and eventually awarded to the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation, which were temporarily stored in the Pfeiffer Library at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon, WV until the partnership between these two institutions and the WVRHC was formed in 2014, which led to the transfer of the collection to WVU.

Scope and Contents

The collection includes the great majority of manuscripts comprising Buck's literary works, including her novels, non-fiction, children's books, and short stories, as well as articles and speeches, among other material. There is also material about Pearl Buck.

Formats include holographs, typescripts, typescript carbons, mixed manuscripts, galleys, and more.

Prominent topics of Buck's literary works include: Chinese history, politics, and culture; American culture; international relations; adoption; children with disabilities; women's rights; and writing. The collection also includes material regarding the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation, Pearl Buck as an author, and other subjects.

For additional material, see A&M 727, Pearl S. Buck, Author, Papers.

Overview of Record Series:

The collection includes eight series:

Series 1. Novels; ca. 1930-1973.
Series 2. Non-fiction; ca. 1936-1972.
Series 3. Children's Books; ca. 1940-1967.
Series 4. Translation; ca. 1933.
Series 5. Collections of Short Stories; ca. 1934-1973.
Series 6. Other Works; ca. 1923-1967, 2014.
Series 7. Miscellaneous; ca. 1960-2014.
Series 8. Oversized; ca. 1930-1995.

Series 1-5 include the bulk of Buck's published books in draft form. The cataloging information for these series was drawn from Mary Lee Welliver's thesis, Pearl S. Buck's Manuscripts: The Harvest of Half a Century (see series 7, box 71, folder 284). Some of the drafts are deemed "original" -- for more information on how this conclusion was reached, please see pages 17-18 of the thesis. Series 6 includes drafts of works that were not cataloged in Welliver's thesis.

Since many of Buck's drafts are undated, date ranges given in the series descriptions are based in part on dates of publication. Also, page counts have not been verified.

Manuscripts from the collection were originally housed in 273 large numbered envelopes. The original envelope numbers have been retained as folder numbers, and the original envelopes have been moved to boxes 83-86.

Regarding terminology in this finding aid:

"Galley" indicates a preliminary version of a publication meant for review and copyediting, printed on oversize paper.

"Paged galleys" indicates galleys where pagination has been added, and the number of pages reflects that pagination.

"Unpaged galleys" lack page numbers, and are counted by the number of leaves referred to as "galley pp.".

"Holograph" indicates an entirely handwritten work (as opposed to typescript).

"Manuscript" is used in the general sense to include holographs, typescripts, and galleys.

"PSB" stands for Pearl S. Buck.

Related Material

727

Separated Material

Signed letter to Rare Signatures, A&M 435:

Signed letter from Pearl Buck to Otto Whittaker, with signed enclosure, dated 1967.

Book to Book Collection:

Crouch, Archie R. Scholars' Guide to China Mission Resources in the Libraries and Archives of the United States. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Amerasians
Authors, American -- West Virginia
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973
Children with mental disabilities
China
China -- Fiction
China -- Foreign Relations -- United States
China -- In literature
Hillsboro (W. Va.)
Human rights advocacy
Intercountry adoption
Interracial adoption
Literature and society -- China
Literature and society -- United States
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Novelists, American -- West Virginia
Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation
United States -- Foreign Relations -- China
United States -- Relations -- China
Walsh, Richard J. (Richard John), 1886-1960
West Virginia - Writers.
West Virginia Wesleyan College
Women novelists, American -- 20th century
Women social reformers -- United States

Significant Places Associated With the Collection

China
China -- Fiction
China -- Foreign Relations -- United States
China -- In literature
Hillsboro (W. Va.)
United States -- Foreign Relations -- China
United States -- Relations -- China
West Virginia - Writers.

Container List

Series 1. Novels

ca. 1930-1973

Scope and Contents

Includes holographs, typescripts, typescript carbons, mixed manuscripts, and galleys for more than thirty of Buck's published novels. Many address the topic of Chinese peasant life. Some works are represented by multiple drafts, and some include corrections and revisions by the author.

Highlights include:
paged galleys of Buck's first novel, East Wind, West Wind ;
a typescript of Sons ;
original holograph and typescripts of The Patriot ;
typescripts of The Angry Wife , her only novel set in West Virginia and one of many written under the pseudonym John Sedges; and
multiple drafts of Imperial Woman .

Additional drafts, outlines, and synopses for novels and novellas can also be found in Series 6, Other Works. Galleys and galley proofs can be found in Series 8, Oversized.

Mixed Materials Box: 23 Folder: 106.1-106.2
A House Divided , New York: John Day, 1935; Mixed manuscript, 400 pp., many handwritten corrections. Inserts include: handwritten pgs.
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 40.1-40.2
Bright Procession , New York: John Day, 1952. (John Sedges, pseudonym) (Other title: Strong Son ); First typescript carbon, 271 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 41
Bright Procession , New York: John Day, 1952. (John Sedges, pseudonym) (Other title: Strong Son ); Typescript carbon, 150 pp., serialized version published in the Companion as "Strong Son." Additional Miscellaneous Pages: 23 pp. Includes correspondence regarding edits (1951)
1951, undated
Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 42
Bright Procession , New York: John Day, 1952. (John Sedges, pseudonym) (Other title: Strong Son ); Typescript carbon, 271 pp., few corrections, basically the same as #40
Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 61.1
China Flight , Philadelphia: Triangle Publishing Co., 1945.; Original typescript, approximately 230 pp., many corrections by PSB. May include inserts. See #61.3 III for additional inserts.
Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 61.2
China Flight , Philadelphia: Triangle Publishing Co., 1945.; Typescript carbon (file copy), 256 pp., moderate corrections. Same as #62 I. Inserts: typed 5 pp. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: serial outline for Collier's , 15 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 61.3
China Flight , Philadelphia: Triangle Publishing Co., 1945.; 5 pp. typescript with many corrections, 5 pp. handwritten inserts., and 1 p. handwritten note of instructions to secretary
Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 62.1
China Flight , Philadelphia: Triangle Publishing Co., 1945.; Typescript carbon, 256 pp., moderate corrections. Inserts: typed 5 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 62.2
China Flight , Philadelphia: Triangle Publishing Co., 1945.; Typescript carbon, incomplete copy, 232 pp. Missing: p. 2.
Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 59.1-59.2
China Sky , Philadelphia: Triangle Publishing Co., 1942.; Original holograph, approximately 200 pp. (includes 5 typed pages), serial version, many corrections by PSB. Inserts: handwritten 4 pp. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: Outline of remaining action (inserted at p. 107), 6 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 60
China Sky , Philadelphia: Triangle Publishing Co., 1942.; Typescript carbon, 229 pp., serial version, moderate corrections. Inserts: typed 3 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 54.1-54.3
Command the Morning , New York: John Day, 1959.; Typescript, 364 pp., moderate corrections. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: 9 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 55.1-55.2
Command the Morning , New York: John Day, 1959.; Original typescript, 294 pp., many corrections by PSB. Missing pages: 268, 283-288? Inserts: handwritten 12 pp., typed 19 pp. Also includes handwritten note from PSB(?) signed PSW.
Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 56.1
Command the Morning , New York: John Day, 1959.; Typescript carbon, 200 pp., incomplete
Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 64.1-64.2
Death in the Castle , New York: John Day, 1965.; Mixed typescript and typescript carbon, 245 pp., publisher's manuscript, moderate corrections by editor. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: Preliminary pages and layouts, 7 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 64.3
Death in the Castle , New York: John Day, 1965.; Unpaged galleys, 85 galley pp., few corrections. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: Author's handwritten note, 1 p.; first page of book (printed); layout for title page. Moved to box 77a, folder 3
Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 64.4
Death in the Castle , New York: John Day, 1965.; Paged galleys, 248 pp. Moved to box 77a, folder 4
Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 70.1
Dragon Seed , New York: John Day, 1942.; Original typescript, 377 pp., many corrections and revisions by PSB. Inserts: handwritten 8 pp., typed 18 pp. (folder 1 of 2)
Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 70.2
Dragon Seed , New York: John Day, 1942.; Original typescript, 377 pp., many corrections and revisions by PSB. Inserts: handwritten 8 pp., typed 18 pp. (folder 2 of 2)
Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 71
Dragon Seed , New York: John Day, 1942.; Mixed manuscript (typescript 26 pp., typescript carbon 120 pp.), 146 pp., incomplete. Missing pages: 27-223, 343-435. Inserts: typed 21 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 72.1
Dragon Seed , New York: John Day, 1942.; Typescript carbon, 148 pp., incomplete, publisher's manuscript, installments 3-6 of serialized version (for Asia Magazine?), many revisions. Missing pages: 1-75. Inserts: typed 1 p.
Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 72.2
Dragon Seed , New York: John Day, 1942.; Typescript carbon, 69 pp., incomplete, serialized version. Missing pages: 1-112, 182-223
Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 74.1-74.2
Dragon Seed , New York: John Day, 1942.; Typescript carbon, 437 pp., moderate corrections. Inserts: typed 30 pp. Marked as carbon III.
Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 74.3
Dragon Seed , New York: John Day, 1942.; Typescript carbon, 27 pp., incomplete, first installment only of serialized version.
Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 74.4
Dragon Seed , New York: John Day, 1942.; Typescript carbon, 112 pp., incomplete, carbon copy of publisher's manuscript #76 above
Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 75
Dragon Seed , New York: John Day, 1942.; Typescript carbon, 240 pp., incomplete. Missing pages: 27-223. Inserts: typed 30 pp. Marked as carbon II
Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 76.1-76.3
Dragon Seed , New York: John Day, 1942.; Typescript, 438 pp., publisher's manuscript, many corrections and revisions. Inserts: typed 27 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 81.1
East Wind, West Wind , New York: John Day, 1930.; Paged galleys, 277 pp., few corrections. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: Preliminary pages & layouts (original), 5 pp.; preliminary pages (printed), 5 pp. Moved to box 77b, folder 1;
Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 81.2
East Wind, West Wind , New York: John Day, 1930.; Paged galleys, 251 pp., few corrections, Book-of-the-Month edition only. Moved to box 77b, folder 2
Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 96.1-96.2
God's Men , New York: John Day, 1951.; Mixed manuscript of typescripts, typescript carbons, holographs, & retyped inserts and pages, approximately 145 pp., incomplete
Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 97.1-97.3
God's Men , New York: John Day, 1951.; Typescript carbon, 588 pp., few corrections. Inserts: typed 3 pp. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: extra copies of inserts
1950
Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 98.1-98.2
God's Men , New York: John Day, 1951.; Original mixed manuscript (typed 339 pp., handwritten 18 pp.), 355 pp., many corrections & revisions by PSB. Inserts: handwritten 25 pp., typed 2 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 66 Folder: 269
God's Men , New York: John Day, 1951.; Mixed manuscript, 110 pp., incomplete, many handwritten corrections, last part of manuscript missing. Inserts: handwritten 14 pp., typed 33 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 108.1-108.4
Imperial Woman , New York: John Day, 1956.; Typescript carbon, 604 pp., moderate corrections. Inserts: typed 3 pp. carbon copy of #112 above.
1955
Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 109.1-109.2
Imperial Woman , New York: John Day, 1956.; Original mixed manuscript, approximately 316 pp., incomplete, many corrections & revisions by PSB. Missing pages: 1-149, 326, 340-384. Inserts: handwritten 14 pp., typed 1 p.
Mixed Materials Box: 25 Folder: 110.1-110.4
Imperial Woman , New York: John Day, 1956.; Mixed manuscript, 578 pp. (typed 575, handwritten 3), second draft, many corrections & revisions by PSB. Missing pages: 354-389. Inserts: handwritten 38 pp., typed 10 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 26 Folder: 112.1-112.4
Imperial Woman , New York: John Day, 1956.; Typescript, 604 pp., printer's manuscript, few corrections. Inserts: typed 7 pp. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: preliminary pages, 6 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 27 Folder: 115.1-115.4
Kinfolk , New York: John Day, 1949. (Other title: The Bridge ); Typescript carbon (last typing), 525 pp., few corrections, carbon copy of #118.
1948
Mixed Materials Box: 27 Folder: 116.1-116.3
Kinfolk , New York: John Day, 1949. (Other title: The Bridge ); Typescript carbon (second typing), 544 pp. (same as 121 II)
Mixed Materials Box: 27 Folder: 117.1-117.3
Kinfolk , New York: John Day, 1949. (Other title: The Bridge ); Typescript carbon, 525 pp., few corrections, carbon copy of #118.1-118.3.
Mixed Materials Box: 28 Folder: 118.1-118.3
Kinfolk , New York: John Day, 1949. (Other title: The Bridge ); Typescript, 525 pp., publisher's manuscript, few corrections. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: 3 pp.
1948
Mixed Materials Box: 28 Folder: 119.1-119.3
Kinfolk , New York: John Day, 1949. (Other title: The Bridge ); Original mixed manuscript, 450 pp., many corrections & revisions by PSB. Inserts: handwritten 3 pp., typed 9 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 28 Folder: 120.1
Kinfolk , New York: John Day, 1949. (Other title: The Bridge ); Typescript carbon, 525 pp., few corrections, carbon copy of #118.1-118.3.
Mixed Materials Box: 29 Folder: 120.2-120.4
Kinfolk , New York: John Day, 1949. (Other title: The Bridge ); Typescript carbon, 525 pp., few corrections, carbon copy of #118.1-118.3.
Mixed Materials Box: 29 Folder: 121.1-121.3
Kinfolk , New York: John Day, 1949. (Other title: The Bridge ); Mixed manuscript, 487 pp., file copy with many corrections & revisions by PSB. Inserts: handwritten 54 pp., typed 13 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 30 Folder: 121.4-121.7
Kinfolk , New York: John Day, 1949. (Other title: The Bridge ); Typescript carbon (second typing), 544 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 30 Folder: 123.1
Letter from Peking , New York: John Day, 1957; Original container for typescript with publisher label
Mixed Materials Box: 30 Folder: 123.2
Letter from Peking , New York: John Day, 1957; Typescript of novel, 193 pp., few corrections. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: memorandum
Mixed Materials Box: 32 Folder: 130.1-130.2
Mandala , New York: John Day, 1970.; Facsimile (burned copy) of typescript, 389 pp., moderate corrections. Inserts: typed 9 pp. (copy of #277)
Mixed Materials Box: 33 Folder: 131.1-131.2
Mandala , New York: John Day, 1970.; Facsimile (burned copy) of typescript, 389 pp., moderate corrections. Inserts: typed 20 pp. (copy of #277, but with additional revisions.)
Mixed Materials Box: 69 Folder: 277.1-277.3
Mandala , New York: John Day, 1970.; Typescript, 389 pp., moderate corrections by PBS. Inserts: typed 9 pp., facsimile of pp. 358-389, 31 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 32.1-32.2
Other Gods , New York: John Day, 1940 (Serialized Good Housekeeping , 12/38-5/39 under title American Legend ); Original mixed manuscript, 207 pp. (handwritten 168, typed 39), incomplete, serialized version, moderate corrections by PSB. Missing pages: 1-110, 149-177.
Mixed Materials Box: 37 Folder: 150
Other Gods , New York: John Day, 1940 (Serialized Good Housekeeping , 12/38-5/39 under title American Legend ); Original holograph, 53 pp., incomplete, many handwritten corrections by PSB
Mixed Materials Box: 37 Folder: 151.1-151.4
Other Gods , New York: John Day, 1940 (Serialized Good Housekeeping , 12/38-5/39 under title American Legend ); Typescript (original typing), 513 pp., moderate corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8.1-8.3
Pavilion of Women , New York: John Day, 1946.; Typescript carbon, 457 pp., incomplete, moderate corrections. Missing pp.: 256-318. (Same as #183)
Mixed Materials Box: 46 Folder: 183.1-183.3
Pavilion of Women , New York: John Day, 1946.; Typescript carbon, 457 pp., moderate corrections. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: 10 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 66 Folder: 273
Pavilion of Women , New York: John Day, 1946.; Typescript, 145 pp., incomplete, many handwritten corrections, contains sections of original manuscript. Missing pages: 1-257.
Mixed Materials Box: 29 Folder: 120.5-120.7
Peony , New York: John Day, 1948; Typescript carbon of novel, 401 pp., moderate corrections. Insert: typed 1 p.
Mixed Materials Box: 39 Folder: 158.1-158.2
Peony , New York: John Day, 1948; Typescript of novel, 415 pp., working manuscript, moderate corrections by PSB. Insert: typed 1 p.
Mixed Materials Box: 39 Folder: 159
Peony , New York: John Day, 1948; Typescript of serialized version of novel, 232 pp., moderate revisions by PSB. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: approximately 41 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 40 Folder: 160.1
Peony , New York: John Day, 1948; Typescript of serialized version of novel, 191 pp., few corrections. Insert: typed 1 p. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: extra copies of Foreword and p. 1.
Mixed Materials Box: 40 Folder: 160.2
Peony , New York: John Day, 1948; Typescript carbon of serialized version, of novel, 191 pp., same as #160.1 I. Insert: typed 1 p.
Mixed Materials Box: 40 Folder: 164
Peony , New York: John Day, 1948; Mixed manuscript of novel, 185 pp., incomplete, many handwritten corrections by PSB. Last 2/5 of manuscript missing. Inserts: handwritten 14 pp., typed 18 pp. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: 5 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 41 Folder: 166.1-166.2
Peony , New York: John Day, 1948; Typescript carbon, 415 pp., few corrections, copy of #158, but with fewer corrections. Final typing. Missing page: 153. Insert: typed 1 p.
Mixed Materials Box: 42 Folder: 168
Portrait of a Marriage , New York: John Day, 1945 (Other titles: Our Daily Bread ; serialized in Redbook as "A Man's Daily Bread."); Typescript carbon, 266 pp. (facsimile of 169A)
Mixed Materials Box: 42 Folder: 169.1
Portrait of a Marriage , New York: John Day, 1945 (Other titles: Our Daily Bread ; serialized in Redbook as "A Man's Daily Bread."); Original holograph, 80 pp., many corrections & revisions by PSB
Mixed Materials Box: 42 Folder: 169.2-169.3
Portrait of a Marriage , New York: John Day, 1945 (Other titles: Our Daily Bread ; serialized in Redbook as "A Man's Daily Bread."); Mixed manuscript, 362 pp. (typescript carbon 96 pp., handwritten inserts 266 pp.) many corrections by PSB.
Mixed Materials Box: 42 Folder: 169.4-169.5
Portrait of a Marriage , New York: John Day, 1945 (Other titles: Our Daily Bread ; serialized in Redbook as "A Man's Daily Bread."); Typescript, 266 pp., moderate corrections by PSB. Inserts: handwritten 4 pp. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: 3 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 235.1
Portrait of a Marriage , New York: John Day, 1945 (Other titles: Our Daily Bread ; serialized in Redbook as "A Man's Daily Bread."); Typescript carbon, 172 pp., incomplete, few corrections, last half of manuscript missing (carbon copy of 169A)
Mixed Materials Box: 50 Folder: 197.1-197.2
Sons , New York: John Day, 1932; Typescript, 433 pp., publisher's manuscript, few handwritten corrections. Insert: typed 1 p. (Typed by PSB in China)
Mixed Materials Box: 66 Folder: 272.1
Sylvia , published in Japanese only (Published serially in Redbook , 1951, as "No Time for Love."); Original mixed manuscript, 95 pp. (handwritten 4 pp., typed 95 pp.), incomplete, many handwritten corrections & revisions by PSB. Missing pages: 1-61. Inserts: handwritten 6 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 66 Folder: 272.2
Sylvia , published in Japanese only (Published serially in Redbook , 1951, as "No Time for Love."); Typescript, 23 pp., incomplete, last part of manuscript missing.
Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 238.1
Sylvia , published in Japanese only, 195? (Published serially in Redbook , 1951, as "No Time for Love."); Typescript carbon, 176 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 26.1-26.2
The Angry Wife , New York: John Day, 1947. (John Sedges, pseudonym); Typescript, 323 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 27
The Angry Wife , New York: John Day, 1947. (John Sedges, pseudonym); Typescript carbon, 323 pp., few corrections, carbon copy of #26 above
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 28
The Angry Wife , New York: John Day, 1947. (John Sedges, pseudonym); Typescript carbon, 325 pp., publisher's manuscript, few corrections, carbon copy of #26 above
1947
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 29.1-29.2
The Angry Wife , New York: John Day, 1947. (John Sedges, pseudonym); Original typescript, first draft, 314 pp., many corrections and revisions by PSB. Inserts: typed 10 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 100.1-100.2
The Hidden Flower , New York: John Day, 1952 (Other title: Lennie ); Typescript, 286 pp., publisher's manuscript, few corrections. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: publisher's dummy, 5 pp.
1951
Mixed Materials Box: 23 Folder: 107.1-107.2
The Hidden Flower , New York: John Day, 1952 (Other title: Lennie ); Mixed manuscript, 267 pp., many corrections by PSB, Inserts: handwritten 2 pp., typed 4 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 32 Folder: 128.1-128.4
The Living Reed , New York: John Day, 1963.; Typescript, 629 pp., publisher's manuscript, moderate revisions. Inserts: typed 16 pp. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: handwritten publishing layouts 11 pp., letter to Mrs. Richard J. Walsh (Pearl S. Buck) 1 p.
Mixed Materials Box: 32 Folder: 128.5
The Living Reed , New York: John Day, 1963.; Typescript of foreword and epilogue, 16 pp., memorandum to Mrs. Shaddinger, 1 p.
Mixed Materials Box: 32 Folder: 129.1
The Living Reed , New York: John Day, 1963.; Unpaged galleys, 190 galley pp., few corrections. Moved to box 78b, folder 1.
Mixed Materials Box: 32 Folder: 129.2
The Living Reed , New York: John Day, 1963.; Paged galleys, 478 pp. (160 galley pp.). Moved to box 78b, folder 2.
Mixed Materials Box: 31 Folder: 126.1-126.2
The Long Love , New York: John Day, 1949 (John Sedges, pseudonym); Typescript (typescript 365 pp. and paged galleys 19 pp.), publisher's manuscript, moderate corrections. Missing page: 256. Inserts: typed 15 pp. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: Preliminary, 7 pp. Oversized paged galleys and page plates moved to box 78a, folder 2.
Mixed Materials Box: 31 Folder: 127.1-127.2
The Long Love , New York: John Day, 1949 (John Sedges, pseudonym); Mixed manuscript, mostly typescript carbon, 365 pp., few corrections. Inserts: typed 12 pp. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: extra copies of inserts; note to Mrs. Shaddinger from PSB.
1949
Mixed Materials Box: 31 Folder: 127.3-127.4
The Long Love , New York: John Day, 1949 (John Sedges, pseudonym); Typescript carbon, 365 pp., few corrections. Inserts: typed 14 pp. Same as #127.1-127.2 I.
1938
Mixed Materials Box: 66 Folder: 270.1
The Long Love , New York: John Day, 1949 (John Sedges, pseudonym); Mixed manuscript, approximately 190 pp., incomplete, many handwritten corrections & revisions by PSB. Inserts: handwritten 19 pp., typed 3 pp.
1934
Mixed Materials Box: 66 Folder: 270.2
The Long Love , New York: John Day, 1949 (John Sedges, pseudonym); Original typescript, approximately 190 pp., incomplete, many corrections & revisions by PSB. Inserts: handwritten 19 pp., typed 3 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 66 Folder: 270.2
The Long Love , New York: John Day, 1949 (John Sedges, pseudonym); Original typescript, approximately 190 pp., incomplete, many corrections & revisions by PSB. Inserts: handwritten 19 pp., typed 3 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 35 Folder: 138
The Mother , New York: John Day, 1934; Original typescript, 222 pp., many corrections by PSB. (Original from Nanking, China)
Mixed Materials Box: 35 Folder: 139
The Mother , New York: John Day, 1934; Typescript carbon, 237 pp., publisher's manuscript, many handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 36 Folder: 144.1-144.2
The New Year , New York: John Day, 1968 (Other title: Kim Christopher ); Facsimile (burned copy) of typescript (#149 as corrected), 262 pp. Insert: typed 1 p.
Mixed Materials Box: 36 Folder: 145.1-145.2
The New Year , New York: John Day, 1968 (Other title: Kim Christopher ); Facsimile (burned copy) of typescript not in this collection, 338 pp., publisher's manuscript, few handwritten corrections. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: preliminary material, 6 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 37 Folder: 146.1-146.3
The New Year , New York: John Day, 1968 (Other title: Kim Christopher ); Facsimile (burned copy) of typescript (#149 as corrected), 262 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 37 Folder: 147.1
The New Year , New York: John Day, 1968 (Other title: Kim Christopher ); Unpaged galleys, 98 galley pp., few corrections. Moved to box 79a, folder 1.
Mixed Materials Box: 37 Folder: 147.2
The New Year , New York: John Day, 1968 (Other title: Kim Christopher ); Paged galleys, 255 pp., few corrections. Moved to box 79a, folder 2.
Mixed Materials Box: 37 Folder: 148
The New Year , New York: John Day, 1968 (Other title: Kim Christopher ); Paged galleys, 255 pp., few corrections. Moved to box 79b, folder 1.
Mixed Materials Box: 37 Folder: 149.1-149.2
The New Year , New York: John Day, 1968 (Other title: Kim Christopher ); Typescript (original), 262 pp. (photocopy 7 pp.), few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 66 Folder: 267
The New Year , New York: John Day, 1968 (Other title: Kim Christopher ); Mixed manuscript, 200 pp., many handwritten corrections by PSB and Richard J. Walsh, Jr. Inserts: handwritten 9 pp. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: memo
Mixed Materials Box: 69 Folder: 276
The New Year , New York: John Day, 1968 (Other title: Kim Christopher ); Facsimile (burned copy) of #149.1-149.2 as corrected, 262 pp. Insert: typed 1 p.
Mixed Materials Box: 47 Folder: 184.1-184.2
The Patriot , New York: John Day, 1939.; Typescript (final draft), 303 pp., few corrections, same as #186 II. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: outline, 20 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 47 Folder: 185.1-185.2
The Patriot , New York: John Day, 1939.; Typescript, 300 pp., incomplete, moderate corrections. Inserts: Outline for incomplete portion of work, 19 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 47 Folder: 186.1-186.2
The Patriot , New York: John Day, 1939.; Original holograph (first draft), 221 pp., incomplete, many corrections by PSB. Missing pages: 92-110. Many inserts. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: extra pages, 11 pp.; outline, 12 pp.
1938
Mixed Materials Box: 48 Folder: 186.3-186.4
The Patriot , New York: John Day, 1939.; Typescript, 303 pp., few corrections. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: 37 pp. Inserts: 17 pp. marked as omitted, outline of concluding chapters, 20 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 48 Folder: 187.1-187.2
The Patriot , New York: John Day, 1939.; Mixed manuscript (second draft), 365 pp (handwritten 182, typed 183), incomplete, many corrections by PSB. Missing Pages: 269-288, 293-300. Inserts: mixed 26 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 48 Folder: 188.1
The Patriot , New York: John Day, 1939.; Mixed manuscript, 403 pp. (typescript), publisher's manuscript, many corrections. Inserts: handwritten 2 pp., typed 24 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 49 Folder: 188.2
The Patriot , New York: John Day, 1939.; Mixed manuscript, 403 pp. (typescript), publisher's manuscript, many corrections. Inserts: handwritten 2 pp., typed 24 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 44 Folder: 175.1-175.3
The Promise , New York: John Day, 1943.; Typescript carbon, 345 pp., few corrections. Inserts: typed 5 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 45 Folder: 176.1-176.2
The Promise , New York: John Day, 1943.; Mixed manuscript, approximately 291 pp., many corrections & revisions by PSB. Inserts: handwritten 9 pp., typed 17 pp. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: 21 pp. One oversized unpaged galley moved to box 79b, folder 2.
Mixed Materials Box: 45 Folder: 177
The Promise , New York: John Day, 1943.; Typescript, 245 pp., incomplete, few corrections. Missing pages: 77-108, 141-208. Inserts: typed 4 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 45 Folder: 178
The Promise , New York: John Day, 1943.; Typescript and typescript carbon, 277 pp., incomplete, moderate corrections. Missing pages: 73-140.
Mixed Materials Box: 62 Folder: 250.1
The Rainbow , New York: John Day, 1974 (Other title: Potter's Luck ); Typescript and two typescript carbons, 27 pp., incomplete, few corrections
1959
Mixed Materials Box: 52 Folder: 204.1-204.2
The Three Daughters of Madame Liang , New York: John Day, 1969.; Typescript, 342 pp., few handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 52 Folder: 205.1-205.2
The Three Daughters of Madame Liang , New York: John Day, 1969.; Original mixed manuscript of novel, 370 pp., many corrections by PSB. Missing Page: 91.
Mixed Materials Box: 52 Folder: 206.1-206.2
The Time Is Noon , New York: John Day, 1967 (Other titles: Good People , American Legend or American Argument ); Typescript of novel, 447 pp., moderate corrections. (This is the 1942 version later revised and published in 1967)
Mixed Materials Box: 53 Folder: 207.1-207.2
The Time Is Noon , New York: John Day, 1967 (Other titles: Good People , American Legend or American Argument ); Paged galleys, 363 pp., moderate corrections by PSB & Richard J. Walsh. (Unpublished version, edited by Richard J. Walsh Sr.)
Mixed Materials Box: 53 Folder: 208.1-208.2
The Time Is Noon , New York: John Day, 1967 (Other titles: Good People , American Legend or American Argument ); Original typescript, 371 pp., few corrections (unrevised copy)
Mixed Materials Box: 53 Folder: 209.1
The Time Is Noon , New York: John Day, 1967 (Other titles: Good People , American Legend or American Argument ); Unpaged galleys, 141 galley proofs, few corrections (Published version). Moved to box 80a, folder 2.
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 30.1-30.2
The Time Is Noon , New York: John Day, 1967 (Other titles: Good People , American Legend ); Typescript carbon, 371 pp. First carbon of #208
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 31.1-31.2
The Time Is Noon , New York: John Day, 1967 (Other titles: Good People , American Legend ); Typescript carbon, 373 pp. Second carbon of #208
Mixed Materials Box: 53 Folder: 209.2
The Time Is Noon , New York: John Day, 1967 (Other titles: Good People , American Legend ); Unpaged galleys, 121 galley proofs (unpublished version). Moved to oversized box 80a, folder 3.
Mixed Materials Box: 53 Folder: 210.1-210.3
The Time Is Noon , New York: John Day, 1967 (Other titles: Good People , American Legend ); Typescript carbon, 372 pp., publisher's manuscript, moderate corrections (possibly typesetter's copy)
Mixed Materials Box: 53 Folder: 211
The Time Is Noon , New York: John Day, 1967 (Other titles: Good People , American Legend ); Paged galleys, 383 pp. (Published version). Moved to box 80b, folder 1.
Mixed Materials Box: 54 Folder: 212.1-212.2
The Time Is Noon , New York: John Day, 1967 (Other titles: Good People , American Legend ); Mixed manuscript, 379 pp. Many corrections by PSB. Inserts: handwritten 57 pp. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: 19 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 55 Folder: 215.1
The Townsman , New York: John Day, 1945 (John Sedges, pseudonym) (Other titles: Monument in Median , Pilgrim's Pride ); Paged galleys, 394 pp., many corrections & revisions by PSB. Inserts: typed 20 pp. Moved to box 80b, folder 2.
Mixed Materials Box: 55 Folder: 215.1
The Townsman , New York: John Day, 1945 (John Sedges, pseudonym) (Other titles: Monument in Median , Pilgrim's Pride ); Typescript, 24 pp., few handwritten corrections, facsimiles of inserts.
Mixed Materials Box: 55 Folder: 215.1
The Townsman , New York: John Day, 1945 (John Sedges, pseudonym) (Other titles: Monument in Median , Pilgrim's Pride ); Holographs, 5 pp., memos about changes to novel and galley proofs.
Mixed Materials Box: 55 Folder: 215.1
The Townsman , New York: John Day, 1945 (John Sedges, pseudonym) (Other titles: Monument in Median , Pilgrim's Pride ); Typescript, 8 pp., many handwritten corrections. Cornerstone ending (published). Note: manuscripts contain three different endings PSB suggested for this book: 1. lovers reunited, 2. statue ending, 3. cornerstone ending (published).
Mixed Materials Box: 55 Folder: 215.1
The Townsman , New York: John Day, 1945 (John Sedges, pseudonym) (Other titles: Monument in Median , Pilgrim's Pride ); Typescript, 19 pp., few corrections. Facsimiles of galley inserts of statue ending, similar but not facsimiles of actual inserts in the galley
Mixed Materials Box: 55 Folder: 215.1
The Townsman , New York: John Day, 1945 (John Sedges, pseudonym) (Other titles: Monument in Median , Pilgrim's Pride ); Typescript, 5 pp., moderate corrections. Facsimiles of pp. 177-181.
Mixed Materials Box: 55 Folder: 215.2-215.5
The Townsman , New York: John Day, 1945 (John Sedges, pseudonym) (Other titles: Monument in Median , Pilgrim's Pride ); Mixed manuscript, 630 pp. (typescript carbon 596 pp., typescript 34 pp.), many corrections PSB. Missing Page: 1. Inserts: handwritten 5 pp., typed 8 pp. (Lovers reunited ending)
Mixed Materials Box: 55 Folder: 216
The Townsman , New York: John Day, 1945 (John Sedges, pseudonym) (Other titles: Monument in Median , Pilgrim's Pride ); Typescript, 637 pp., few corrections (Lovers reunited ending)
Mixed Materials Box: 56 Folder: 217
The Townsman , New York: John Day, 1945 (John Sedges, pseudonym) (Other titles: Monument in Median , Pilgrim's Pride ); Typescript carbon, 637 pp., few corrections (Lovers reunited ending).
Mixed Materials Box: 43 Folder: 170.1-170.2
This Proud Heart , New York: John Day, 1938.; Typescript, 470 pp., few corrections (facsimile of #173)
Mixed Materials Box: 43 Folder: 171.1-171.2
This Proud Heart , New York: John Day, 1938.; Paged galleys, 371 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 43 Folder: 172.1-172.2
This Proud Heart , New York: John Day, 1938.; Original holograph, 295 pp., incomplete, many corrections by PSB. Missing pages: 38-44, 70-128. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: 9 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 44 Folder: 173.1-173.2
This Proud Heart , New York: John Day, 1938.; Typescript, 470 pp., possibly publisher's manuscript, few corrections, some by PSB
Mixed Materials Box: 44 Folder: 174.1-174.3
This Proud Heart , New York: John Day, 1938.; Mixed manuscript, 391 typescript pp., many corrections & revisions by PSB. Inserts: handwritten 115 pp.

Series 2. Non-fiction

ca. 1936-1972

Scope and Contents

Includes typescripts, typescript carbons, mixed manuscripts, and holographs for eighteen of Buck's non-fiction works. Topics include Asia, the role of women in American society, racism, children's welfare, and adoption.

Highlights include:

multiple drafts and leather-bound presentations of Buck's manuscripts for the biographies of her parents -- The Exile and The Fighting Angel -- two novels that helped earn her the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature;

a mixed manuscript of the book titled Of Men and Women ;

typescripts of How it Happens ;

multiple drafts of The Joy of Children ; and

multiple drafts of her autobiographies, My Several Worlds and A Bridge for Passing .

Additional non-fiction works can be found in Series 6, Other Works. Galleys of non-fiction works can be found in Series 8, Oversized.

Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 39.1-39.2
A Bridge for Passing , New York: John Day, 1962 (Other title: Picture in Japan ); Typescript carbon, 249 pp., publisher's manuscript, few corrections (also includes 1963 memo regarding filing the manuscript)
1963, undated
Mixed Materials Box: 46 Folder: 182
A Bridge for Passing , New York: John Day, 1962 (Other title: Picture in Japan ); Typescript carbon (fourth carbon), 232 pp., moderate corrections. Inserts: typed 10 pp.
1961
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 263.1-263.2
A Community Success Story: The Founding of the Pearl Buck Center , New York: John Day, 1972 (Other title: The Pearl Buck School in Eugene, Oregon, USA .); Typescript carbon, 160 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 33.1-33.2
American Argument , New York: John Day, 1949 (written with Eslanda Robeson); Typescript carbon, 258 pp., many corrections & revisions by PSB & Eslanda Robeson. Inserts: typed 11 pp. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: 65 pp., including "My Two Cents Worth" by Eslanda Robeson.
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 34.1-34.2
American Argument , New York: John Day, 1949 (written with Eslanda Robeson); Typescript, 258 pp., publisher's manuscript, many corrections & revisions. Inserts: typed 13 pp. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: preliminary pages 6 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 35.1-35.2
American Argument , New York: John Day, 1949 (written with Eslanda Robeson); Original mixed manuscript, 232 pp. (handwritten 15, typed 206, photocopy 11), incomplete, many corrections & revisions. Missing: Sec. III and part of Sec. IV. Inserts: handwritten 11 pp., typed 26 pp. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: 23 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 45
Children for Adoption , Random House, Inc., 1964; Mixed manuscript, 198 pp. (typed 25, handwritten 4, typescript carbon 169), moderate corrections by PSB. Inserts: handwritten 3 pp., typed 22 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 48
China in Black and White , New York: John Day, 1945; Original typescript, 83 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 90.1
Fighting Angel , New York: John Day, 1936 (Other title: Blind Angel: Portrait of a Soul ); Typescript, 16 pp., digest of book, many corrections & revisions by PSB. Missing: 16 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 90.1
Fighting Angel , New York: John Day, 1936 (Other title: Blind Angel: Portrait of a Soul ); Typescript carbon, 21 pp., digest. Missing: 18 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 90.2
Fighting Angel , New York: John Day, 1936 (Other title: Blind Angel: Portrait of a Soul ); Typescript carbon, 8 pp., digest, incomplete
Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 90.2
Fighting Angel , New York: John Day, 1936 (Other title: Blind Angel: Portrait of a Soul ); Typescript carbon, 15 pp., chapter 2 only.
Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 91
Fighting Angel , New York: John Day, 1936 (Other title: Blind Angel: Portrait of a Soul ); Typescript, 180 pp., moderate revisions by PSB. Missing: 44 pp. Inserts: handwritten 23 pp., typed 1 p.
Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 92.1-92.2
Fighting Angel , New York: John Day, 1936 (Other title: Blind Angel: Portrait of a Soul ); Typescript, 225 pp., publisher's manuscript, few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 67 Folder: 274.1-274.19
Fighting Angel , New York: John Day, 1936 (Other title: Blind Angel: Portrait of a Soul ); Original holograph, 469 pp., moderate handwritten corrections by PSB. Originally enclosed in green leather binding and green ribbon. See box 68 for green leather binding and ribbon.
Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 84.1-84.2
For Spacious Skies (written with Theodore F. Harris) New York: John Day, 1966 (Other titles: From Sea to Shining Sea , A Portrait in Dialogue , Dialogues .); Typescript, 257 pp., few corrections, some deletions. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: 5 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 85.1-85.2
For Spacious Skies (written with Theodore F. Harris) New York: John Day, 1966 (Other titles: From Sea to Shining Sea , A Portrait in Dialogue , Dialogues .); Typescript, 267 pp., publisher's manuscript, moderate corrections, some deletions.
Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 85.3
For Spacious Skies (written with Theodore F. Harris) New York: John Day, 1966 (Other titles: From Sea to Shining Sea , A Portrait in Dialogue , Dialogues .); Unpaged galleys, 79 galley pp., few corrections. Moved to box 77b, folder 3
Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 86.1-86.2
For Spacious Skies (written with Theodore F. Harris) New York: John Day, 1966 (Other titles: From Sea to Shining Sea , A Portrait in Dialogue , Dialogues .); Original holograph, 216 pp. (handwritten by PSB and Theodore F. Harris) and typescript 2 pp., moderate corrections & revisions by PSB. Inserts: handwritten 22 pp., typed 1 p. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: 35 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 87
For Spacious Skies (written with Theodore F. Harris) New York: John Day, 1966 (Other titles: From Sea to Shining Sea , A Portrait in Dialogue , Dialogues .); Mixed manuscript, 207 pp. (typescript carbon 178 pp., typed 29 pp.), many corrections & revisions by PSB and Theodore F. Harris. Inserts: handwritten 17 pp., typed 23 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 88.1
For Spacious Skies (written with Theodore F. Harris) New York: John Day, 1966 (Other titles: From Sea to Shining Sea , A Portrait in Dialogue , Dialogues .); Typescript, 178 pp., incomplete, moderate corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 88.2
For Spacious Skies (written with Theodore F. Harris) New York: John Day, 1966 (Other titles: From Sea to Shining Sea , A Portrait in Dialogue , Dialogues .); Typescript carbon, 178 pp., incomplete, moderate corrections by PSB.
Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 88.3
For Spacious Skies (written with Theodore F. Harris) New York: John Day, 1966 (Other titles: From Sea to Shining Sea , A Portrait in Dialogue , Dialogues .); Typescript carbon, 178 pp., incomplete, moderate corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 88.4
For Spacious Skies (written with Theodore F. Harris) New York: John Day, 1966 (Other titles: From Sea to Shining Sea , A Portrait in Dialogue , Dialogues .); Typescript carbon, 178 pp., incomplete, moderate corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 89
For Spacious Skies (written with Theodore F. Harris) New York: John Day, 1966 (Other titles: From Sea to Shining Sea , A Portrait in Dialogue , Dialogues .); Paged galleys, 221 pp., few corrections. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: 2 pp. Moved to box 78a, folder 1.
Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 83
Friend to Friend (with Carlos P. Romulo) John Day, 1958; Typescript, 97 pp., few corrections. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: 10 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 68 Folder: loose
Green leather cover for Fighting Angel manuscript and ribbon; Green leather cover for manuscript. See box 67, folder 274.1-274.19 for manuscript pages. Also contains ribbon that bound pages together.
1966
Mixed Materials Box: 23 Folder: 105.1- 105.3
How It Happens (with Erna von Pustau), New York: John Day, 1947; Original mixed manuscript, 452 pp. (typescript 316, handwritten 3, typescript carbon 134), many corrections & revisions by PSB. Inserts: handwritten 4 pp., typed 1 p.
Mixed Materials Box: 54 Folder: 214.1-214.3
How It Happens (with Erna von Pustau), New York: John Day, 1947; Typescript and typescript carbon, approximately 737 pp., many corrections. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: 14 pp. (manuscript includes typescript of original conversations from which the book was compiled)
Mixed Materials Box: 34 Folder: 135.1-135.4
My Several Worlds , New York: John Day, 1954; Typescript carbon, 652 pp., moderate corrections. Missing pages: 520-533. Inserts: typed 9 pp. (Same as 136)
Mixed Materials Box: 34 Folder: 135.5
My Several Worlds , New York: John Day, 1954; Typescript and typescript carbons of foreword (insert) for non-fiction work, 3 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 34 Folder: 135.6
My Several Worlds , New York: John Day, 1954; Typescript and typescript carbon of inserts for non-fiction work, 19 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 34 Folder: 136.1-136.4
My Several Worlds , New York: John Day, 1954; Typescript carbon (incomplete), 652 pp., moderate corrections. Missing pages: 57-61. Inserts: typed 9 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 35 Folder: 137.1-137.3
My Several Worlds , New York: John Day, 1954; Typescript, 652 pp., publisher's manuscript, handwritten moderate corrections. Inserts: typed 9 pp. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: preliminary materials, 7 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 38 Folder: 154.1-154.2
Of Men and Women , New York: John Day, 1941.; Original mixed manuscript, approximately 433 pp. (typed & handwritten 174 pp., typescript carbon 259 pp.), incomplete, many corrections by PSB. Includes "Women and War" and other articles.
Mixed Materials Box: 68 Folder: loose
Red leather cover for The Exile manuscript; Red leather cover for manuscript. See box 67, folder 275.1-275.5 for manuscript pages.
1968
Mixed Materials Box: 54 Folder: 213
Tell the People (with Dr. James Y. C. Yen), New York: John Day, 1945; Typescript of conversation with Dr. Yen, June 11, 1944, 151 pp. Basis for the book. Taken by court stenographer and transcribed.
1944
Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 46
The Child Who Never Grew , New York: John Day, 1950; Typescript carbon, second typing, 66 pp., few corrections. Appeared as an article in Ladies' Home Journal, May, 1950.
Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 47
The Child Who Never Grew , New York: John Day, 1950; Mixed manuscript, first draft, 74 pp. (handwritten 23, typescript carbon 51), many revisions by PSB. Inserts: handwritten 16.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 63.1
The Child Who Never Grew , New York: John Day, 1950; Typescript carbon, 51 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 63.2
The Child Who Never Grew , New York: John Day, 1950; Typescript carbon, 51 pp., few corrections (Same as #63I)
Mixed Materials Box: 36 Folder: 141
The Chinese Novel , New York: John Day, 1939; Original holograph of Nobel Prize Lecture, 20 pp., many handwritten corrections by PSB.
Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 80.1-80.2
The Exile , New York: John Day, 1936 (Other title: American Woman ); Typescript carbon, 254 pp., publisher's manuscript, few corrections. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: Layouts, 2 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 67 Folder: 275.1-275.5
The Exile , New York: John Day, 1936 (Other title: American Woman ); Typescript, 254 pp., publisher's manuscript, few handwritten corrections. Originally enclosed in red leather cover. See box 68 for red leather cover.
Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 99
The Gifts They Bring , New York: John Day, 1965; Original mixed manuscript, 167 pp. (handwritten 18 pp., typescript 149 pp.), many corrections & revisions by PSB. Inserts: handwritten 3 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 69 Folder: 278
The Gifts They Bring , New York: John Day, 1965; Typescript, 215 pp., publisher's manuscript, moderate corrections. Inserts: typed 1 p. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: Preliminary pages, 4 pp.; Index, 17 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 26 Folder: 113
The Joy of Children , Bookworld Enterprises, 1964; Original mixed manuscript, 52 pp. (handwritten 15 pp., typescript 37), moderate corrections by PSB.
Mixed Materials Box: 26 Folder: 114.1
The Joy of Children , Bookworld Enterprises, 1964; Typescript carbon, 47 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 26 Folder: 114.2
The Joy of Children , Bookworld Enterprises, 1964; Typescript carbon, 47 pp. (Same as 114 I)
Mixed Materials Box: 56 Folder: 219
To My Daughters, with Love , New York: John Day, 1967.; Typescript, 236 pp. (typescript 219 pp., facsimile 17 pp.), publisher's manuscript, many corrections. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: preliminary materials 10 pp., including title page layouts
Mixed Materials Box: 56 Folder: 220
To My Daughters, with Love , New York: John Day, 1967.; Typescript, 304 pp. (facsimile [burned] 93 pp., typescript carbon 211 pp.), few corrections. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: 68 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 57 Folder: 221.1-221.2
To My Daughters, with Love , New York: John Day, 1967.; Mixed manuscript, 216 pp. (facsimile [burned] 183 pp., typescript carbon 31 pp., handwritten 2 pp.), incomplete, few corrections. Missing: chapters 10, 16, 20. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: 10 pp.

Series 3. Children's Books

ca. 1940-1967

Scope and Contents

Includes typescript carbons, galleys, typescripts, mixed manuscripts, and holographs for eleven children's books, including The Big Fight , The Big Wave , and Matthew, Mark, Luke and John . Galleys can be found in Series 8, Oversized.

Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 13.3
"Oriental Fairy Tales", later Fairy Tales of the Orient , Simon and Shuster, 1965 (Published with L. K. Engel); Original mixed manuscript, 46 pp. (handwritten 42 pp., typed 4 pp.), moderate corrections (manuscript consists of 38 forewords to the fairy tales and 4 typescript pages that appear to be captions to illustrations)
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 13.4
"Oriental Fairy Tales", later Fairy Tales of the Orient , Simon and Shuster, 1965 (Published with L. K. Engel); Typescript carbon of foreword, 11 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 256.5
Johnny Jack and His Beginnings , New York: John Day, 1954.; Typescript carbon, 11 pp., few corrections. Missing: first page
Mixed Materials Box: 62 Folder: 248.7
Little Fox in the Middle , Macmillan, 1966.; Typescript carbon, 12 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 33 Folder: 132.3
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John , New York: John Day, 1967.; Typescript, 44 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 36 Folder: 140.1
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John , New York: John Day, 1967.; Typescript carbon, 44 pp., publisher's manuscript, few corrections. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: preliminary pages, 5 pp. (Same as 132.3 III)
Mixed Materials Box: 36 Folder: 140.2
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John , New York: John Day, 1967.; Unpaged galleys, 21 galley pp., few corrections, moved to box 78b, folder 3.
Mixed Materials Box: 38 Folder: 153.1
One Bright Day , New York: John Day, 1950 (Other title: One Happy Day ); Original typescript, 31 pp., many handwritten corrections by PSB
Mixed Materials Box: 38 Folder: 153.2
One Bright Day , New York: John Day, 1950 (Other title: One Happy Day ); Mixed manuscript, 37 pp. typescript, publisher's manuscript, moderate corrections. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: preliminary pages 9.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 65.1
Stories for Little Children , New York: John Day, 1940 (Other title: Dedicated to Five Children ); Original holograph, 21 pp., many corrections & revisions by PSB. Includes: "The Dark," "The Sun," "The Clouds," "Thunder," "At Supper," "Richard and the Squirrel," "The Star," "The Children and the Snow," "When Fun Begins," "The Moon."
1940
Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 65.2
Stories for Little Children , New York: John Day, 1940 (Other title: Dedicated to Five Children ); Typescript carbon file copy, 35 pp.
1940
Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 65.3
Stories for Little Children , New York: John Day, 1940 (Other title: Dedicated to Five Children ); Typescript, 35 pp., publisher's manuscript, few corrections
1940
Mixed Materials Box: 51 Folder: 201.1
Stories for Little Children , New York: John Day, 1940 (Other title: Dedicated to Five Children ); Unpaged galleys, 8 galley pp., few corrections, moved to box 79b, folder 3.
Mixed Materials Box: 51 Folder: 201.2
Stories for Little Children , New York: John Day, 1940 (Other title: Dedicated to Five Children ); Paged galleys, 48 pp. (13 galley pp.), few corrections, moved to box 80a, folder 1.
Mixed Materials Box: 61 Folder: 242.3
The Beech Tree , New York: John Day, 1955.; Typescript carbon, 20 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 44
The Big Fight , New York: John Day, 1965.; Typescript carbon, 18 pp., publisher's manuscript, few corrections. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: preliminary pages 3
Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 44
The Big Fight , New York: John Day, 1965.; Unpaged galleys, 9 galley pp., few corrections, moved to box 77a, folder 1
Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 44
The Big Fight , New York: John Day, 1965.; Paged galleys, 22 pp. Missing: pp. 1-8 and ending of book.
Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 44
The Big Fight , New York: John Day, 1965.; Typescript, 18 pp., few corrections (As published in Boys' Life Book of Wild Animal Stories , Random House, 1965)
Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 44
The Big Fight , New York: John Day, 1965.; Unpaged galleys, 6 galley pp. (Published in Boys' Life Book of Wild Animal Stories , Random House, 1965), moved to box 77a, folder 2
Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 43.1
The Big Wave , New York: John Day, 1948.; Typescript, 40 pp., publisher's manuscript, few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 43.2
The Big Wave , New York: John Day, 1948.; Typescript carbon, 2 pp., (foreword only)
Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 52.3
The Chinese Children Next Door , New York: John Day, 1942.; Original typescript, 14 pp., many corrections by PSB.
Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 52.4
The Chinese Children Next Door , New York: John Day, 1942.; Original(?) typescript carbon, 16 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 62 Folder: 247.3
The Water-Buffalo Children , New York: John Day, 1943.; Original typescript, 22 pp., many handwritten corrections by PSB.
1943
Mixed Materials Box: 62 Folder: 247.4
The Water-Buffalo Children , New York: John Day, 1943.; Typescript carbon, 26 pp., moderate handwritten corrections
1943
Mixed Materials Box: 62 Folder: 247.5
The Water-Buffalo Children , New York: John Day, 1943.; Typescript carbon, 26 pp., many handwritten corrections & revisions by R. J. Walsh. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: 6 pp.
1943

Series 4. Translation

ca. 1933

Scope and Contents

Includes two typescript drafts of All Men Are Brothers , Buck's translation of one of China's most famous novels, Shui Hu Chuan (also known as Water Margin or Shui Hu Zhuan ). A brochure advertising this book can be found in Series 6, Other Works, box 70, folder 279.7.

Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 19.1-19.4
All Men Are Brothers , New York: John Day, 1933 (Chinese title: Shui Hu Chuan ), part I; Original typescript, 822 pp., many corrections by PSB. (Includes first 35 chapters). Additional Miscellaneous Pages: foreword, preface, prologue, 29 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 20.1-20.3
All Men Are Brothers , New York: John Day, 1933 (Chinese title: Shui Hu Chuan ), part II; Original typescript, p. 822 through 1302 (chapters 36-55), many corrections by PSB.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 20.4-20.5
All Men Are Brothers , New York: John Day, 1933 (Chinese title: Shui Hu Chuan ), part III; Original typescript, p. 1303 through 1641 (chapters 56-70 and epilogue), many corrections by PSB.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 21.1-21.4
All Men Are Brothers , New York: John Day, 1933 (Chinese title: Shui Hu Chuan ), publisher's copy, part I; Typescript, moderate corrections, p. 1-657 (middle of chapter 29), including foreword, poem, & prologue
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 22.1-22.4
All Men Are Brothers , New York: John Day, 1933 (Chinese title: Shui Hu Chuan ), publisher's copy, part II; Typescript, moderate corrections, p. 658-1227 (middle of chapter 29 through 51)
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 23.1-23.3
All Men Are Brothers , New York: John Day, 1933 (Chinese title: Shui Hu Chuan ), publisher's copy, part III; Typescript, moderate corrections, p. 1228-1671 (chapter 52 through epilogue)

Series 5. Collections of Short Stories

ca. 1934-1973

Scope and Contents

Includes typescripts, typescript carbons, holographs, and mixed manuscripts of short stories from nine of Buck's anthologies. Some of the anthologies were published posthumously. Some entries include the periodical in which the various short stories appeared; please note that this is not indicative of a systematic search. Additional short stories can be found in Series 6, Other Works. A magazine clipping has been moved to Series 8, Oversized.

Mixed Materials Box: 51 Folder: 199.1
The Good Deed and Other Stories , 1969: "Mr. Chen's House." Other titles: "The Courtyard of Peace."; Typescript carbon of short story.
Mixed Materials Box: 51 Folder: 199.3
"Descent into China"; Typescript of short story, 15 pp., not published in The Good Deed and Other Stories .
Mixed Materials Box: 51 Folder: 199.4
"Descent into China"; Typescript carbon of short story, 15 pp., not published in The Good Deed and Other Stories .
Mixed Materials Box: 51 Folder: 199.16
"John-John Chinaman"; Typescript of short story, not published in The Good Deed and Other Stories .
Mixed Materials Box: 51 Folder: 199.17
"John-John Chinaman"; Typescript carbon of short story, not published in The Good Deed and Other Stories
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 256.3
East and West , New York: John Day, 1975: "Dream Child"; Typescript, 20 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 256.4
East and West , New York: John Day, 1975: "Dream Child"; Facsimile of typescript, 20 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 61 Folder: 242.6
East and West , New York: John Day, 1975: "Fool's Sacrifice"; Typescript, 24 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 61 Folder: 244.2
East and West , New York: John Day, 1975: "India, India" McCall's, Sept., 1964.; Typescript of short story, 22 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 61 Folder: 244.3
East and West , New York: John Day, 1975: "India, India" McCall's, Sept., 1964.; Typescript carbon, 22 pp., few corrections (carbon copy of 244 IIa above)
Mixed Materials Box: 58 Folder: 233.1
East and West , New York: John Day, 1975: "The Golden Bowl"; Original typescript of short story, 38 pp., many handwritten corrections by PSB. Inserts: typed 4 pp.
1942
Mixed Materials Box: 58 Folder: 233.2
East and West , New York: John Day, 1975: "The Golden Bowl"; Typescript of short story, 76 pp., many corrections & revisions by PSB. (second draft). Inserts: typed 4 pp.
1942
Mixed Materials Box: 58 Folder: 233.3
East and West , New York: John Day, 1975: "The Golden Bowl"; Typescript carbon of short story, 79 pp., moderate corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 235.4
East and West , New York: John Day, 1975: "To Whom a Child Is Born"; Typescript carbon, 36 pp., few corrections by PSB. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: 3 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 62 Folder: 246.4
East and West , New York: John Day, 1975: "Until Tomorrow"; Typescript carbon, 24 pp., moderate handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 66 Folder: 271.4
East and West , New York: John Day, 1975: "Until Tomorrow"; Original typescript, 22 pp., many handwritten corrections by PSB.
Mixed Materials Box: 61 Folder: 242.5
Escape at Midnight , Dragonfly Books, Hong Kong, 1963: "A Field of Rice" (Saturday Evening Post, 12/22/62); Typescript, 17 pp.
1962
Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 79.2
Escape at Midnight , Dragonfly Books, Hong Kong, 1963: "Escape at Midnight"; Typescript carbon, 18 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 23 Folder: 104.5
Escape at Midnight , Dragonfly Books, Hong Kong, 1963: "Honeymoon Blues"; Typescript carbon of short story, 14 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 235.2
Escape at Midnight , Dragonfly Books, Hong Kong, 1963: "Night Nurse" (Other title: "The Tryst"); Typescript carbon, 18 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 239.7
Escape at Midnight , Dragonfly Books, Hong Kong, 1963: "Night Nurse" (Other title: "The Tryst"); Typescript carbon, 11 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 62 Folder: 248.5
Escape at Midnight , Dragonfly Books, Hong Kong, 1963: "The Lighted Window"; Typescript carbon, 83 pp., few handwritten corrections
1950-1952
Mixed Materials Box: 62 Folder: 248.6
Escape at Midnight , Dragonfly Books, Hong Kong, 1963: "The Lighted Window"; Typescript carbon, 50 pp., many handwritten corrections
1950-1952
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 18.2
Escape at Midnight , Dragonfly Books, Hong Kong, 1963: "The Old Signs Fail" ( Woman's Home Companion , 12/40); Original holograph, 21 pp., many corrections & revisions by PSB. No p. 17.
Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 239.5
Escape at Midnight , Dragonfly Books, Hong Kong, 1963: "The Old Signs Fail" ( Woman's Home Companion , 12/40); Typescript carbon, 34 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 236.8
Escape at Midnight , Dragonfly Books, Hong Kong, 1963: "The Silver Butterfly" ( Saturday Evening Post 5/14/60, Fourteen Stories , 1961); Typescript carbon of short story, 21 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 236.9
Escape at Midnight , Dragonfly Books, Hong Kong, 1963: "The Silver Butterfly" ( Saturday Evening Post 5/14/60, Fourteen Stories , 1961); Typescript carbon, 21 pp. (Same as #236 IVa)
Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 236.1
Escape at Midnight , Dragonfly Books, Hong Kong, 1963: "The Silver Butterfly" ( Saturday Evening Post 5/14/60, Fourteen Stories , 1961); Typescript carbon, 21 pp. (Same as #236 IVa and 236 IVb)
Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 236.11
Escape at Midnight , Dragonfly Books, Hong Kong, 1963: "The Silver Butterfly" ( Saturday Evening Post 5/14/60, Fourteen Stories , 1961); Typescript, 14 pp. (publisher's manuscript), few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 93.1-93.2
Far and Near , New York: John Day, 1947.; Typescript carbon, 311 pp., publisher's manuscript, few corrections. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: 8 pp. This manuscript contains all short stories in the book plus "Crusade" which is not in the published volume.
Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 78.6
Far and Near , New York: John Day, 1947: "Enough for a Lifetime" ( Woman's Home Companion 1/35); Typescript carbon, 22 pp. (missing p. 6 and 23)
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 17.1
Far and Near , New York: John Day, 1947: "Heat Wave" ( American Mercury 4/35); Original holograph, 10 pp. (both sides), moderate corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 22 Folder: 103.1
Far and Near , New York: John Day, 1947: "Heat Wave" ( American Mercury 4/35); Typescript of short story, 13 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 23 Folder: 104.4
Far and Near , New York: John Day, 1947: "Home to Heaven"; Typescript carbon of short story, 14 pp., few corrections
1946
Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 240.9
Far and Near , New York: John Day, 1947: "Mr. Right"; Original typescript, 20 pp., many corrections by PSB.
Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 238.5
Far and Near , New York: John Day, 1947: "Mrs. Mercer and Her Self"; Typescript carbon, 19 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 78.2
Far and Near , New York: John Day, 1947: "The Enemy," ( Harper's Magazine 11/42; Scholastic , 2/8/43); Original typescript, 31 pp., many corrections & revisions by PSB. Inserts: typed 2. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: 2 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 78.3
Far and Near , New York: John Day, 1947: "The Enemy," ( Harper's Magazine 11/42; Scholastic , 2/8/43); Typescript, 30 pp., moderate corrections by PSB.
Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 78.4
Far and Near , New York: John Day, 1947: "The Enemy," ( Harper's Magazine 11/42; Scholastic , 2/8/43); Typescript carbon, 31 pp., moderate corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 78.5
Far and Near , New York: John Day, 1947: "The Enemy," ( Harper's Magazine 11/42; Scholastic , 2/8/43); Typescript carbon, 31 pp., incorporates corrections on #78 IIb.
Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 239.1
Far and Near , New York: John Day, 1947: "The One Woman"; Typescript, 33 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 239.2
Far and Near , New York: John Day, 1947: "The One Woman"; Typescript, 33 pp. (final and revised copy)
Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 239.3
Far and Near , New York: John Day, 1947: "The One Woman"; Typescript, 33 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 239.4
Far and Near , New York: John Day, 1947: "The One Woman"; Typescript, 33 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 41 Folder: 167
Far and Near , New York: John Day, 1947: "The Perfect Wife" ( Passing Show , 11/30/35) (Other title: "The Pleasant Vampire"); Magazine clipping, 5 pp., contains publisher's notations. Moved to box 81, folder 1.
1935
Mixed Materials Box: 62 Folder: 246.1
Far and Near , New York: John Day, 1947: "The Perfect Wife" ( Passing Show , 11/30/35) (Other title: "The Pleasant Vampire"); Typescript, 28 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 62 Folder: 246.2
Far and Near , New York: John Day, 1947: "The Perfect Wife" ( Passing Show , 11/30/35) (Other title: "The Pleasant Vampire"); Typescript, 28 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 237.5
Far and Near , New York: John Day, 1947: "The Truce"; Typescript, 26 pp. (first typescript)
Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 237.6
Far and Near , New York: John Day, 1947: "The Truce"; Typescript, 26 pp., few corrections by PSB.
Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 237.7
Far and Near , New York: John Day, 1947: "The Truce"; Typescript, 26 pp., few corrections
1937
Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 237.8
Far and Near , New York: John Day, 1947: "The Truce"; Typescript, 27 pp., few corrections by PSB (final revised copy)
Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 237.9
Far and Near , New York: John Day, 1947: "The Truce"; Typescript carbon, 28 pp., incorporates corrections in #237 Vd.
Mixed Materials Box: 66 Folder: 271.5
Far and Near , New York: John Day, 1947: "The Truce"; Original typescript, 20 pp., many handwritten corrections by PSB.
Mixed Materials Box: 62 Folder: 246.3
Far and Near , New York: John Day, 1947: "Virgin Birth"; Typescript, 33 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 58 Folder: 232.1
Fourteen Stories , New York: John Day, 1961: "Begin to Live" ( Woman's Home Companion , 4/45); Typescript carbon of short story, 23 pp., publisher's manuscript, few corrections
1945
Mixed Materials Box: 57 Folder: 222
Fourteen Stories , New York: John Day, 1961: "Beyond Language"; Typescript carbon, 29 pp., few corrections (actually housed in folder 222.1, but ultimately not published in Today and Forever )
Mixed Materials Box: 58 Folder: 232.4
Fourteen Stories , New York: John Day, 1961: "Beyond Language"; Typescript, 29 pp., publisher's manuscript, few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 58 Folder: 232.5
Fourteen Stories , New York: John Day, 1961: "Beyond Language"; Typescript, 29 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 68.3
Fourteen Stories , New York: John Day, 1961: "Death and the Dawn" ( Ladies' Home Journal 12/56); Typescript carbon, 14 pp. (typed 1 p., typescript carbon 13 pp.), publisher's manuscript, few corrections
1956
Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 78.1
Fourteen Storie s, New York: John Day, 1961: "Enchantment"; Typescript carbon, 14 pp., publisher's manuscript, moderate corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 61 Folder: 242.8
Fourteen Stories , New York: John Day, 1961: "Francesca" ( Good Housekeeping , 2/48); Typescript carbon, 21 pp., many handwritten corrections, possibly publisher's manuscript
1947, 1962
Mixed Materials Box: 33 Folder: 133.1
Fourteen Stories , New York: John Day, 1961: "Melissa" ( Good Housekeeping 5/60); Typescript, 22 pp., publisher's manuscript, few corrections
1959
Mixed Materials Box: 61 Folder: 241.3
Fourteen Stories , New York: John Day, 1961: "The Beauty" ( Ladies' Home Journal , 1961); Original typescript, 23 pp., many corrections by PSB.
Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 50.3
Fourteen Stories , New York: John Day, 1961: "The Commander and the Commissar"; Typescript carbon, 25 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 79.1
Fourteen Stories , New York: John Day, 1961: "The Engagement"; Typescript carbon, 30 pp., publisher's manuscript, few corrections
Fourteen Stories , New York: John Day, 1961: "The Silver Butterfly" (See Escape at Midnight , 59, folders 236.8-11 IVa-d)
Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 69.2
Fourteen Stories , New York: John Day, 1961: "With a Delicate Air" (on item: "A Delicate Air"); Typescript carbon, 21 pp., publisher's manuscript, few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 57 Folder: 226.2
Secrets of the Heart , New York: John Day, 1975, "Wonderful Woman"; Typescript of short story, 103 pp., few corrections (file copy)
Mixed Materials Box: 23 Folder: 104.1
Secrets of the Heart , New York: John Day, 1975: "Here and Now"; Typescript carbon of short story, 23 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 33 Folder: 133.3
Secrets of the Heart , New York: John Day, 1975: "Morning in the Park"; Typescript carbon, 41 pp., few handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 58 Folder: 228
Secrets of the Heart , New York: John Day, 1975: "Wonderful Woman" ( Redbook , 1938); Original holograph, approximately 72 pp., many corrections & revisions by PSB. Inserts: handwritten 2 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 58 Folder: 233.7
The First Wife and Other Stories , New York: John Day, 1933: "The Good River" ( Scholastic 2/4/39); Typescript (original) of short story, 7 pp., moderate corrections by PSB.
Mixed Materials Box: 58 Folder: 233.8
The First Wife and Other Stories , New York: John Day, 1933: "The Good River" ( Scholastic 2/4/39); Typescript carbon of short story, 7 pp. (Same as #233 IVc)
Mixed Materials Box: 58 Folder: 233.9
The First Wife and Other Stories , New York: John Day, 1933: "The Good River" ( Scholastic 2/4/39); Typescript carbon of short story, 7 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 66 Folder: 271.3
The First Wife and Other Stories , New York: John Day, 1933: "The Rainy Day"; Typescript of short story, 13 pp., publisher's manuscript, moderate handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 51 Folder: 199.12
The Good Deed and Other Stories , New York: John Day, 1970: "Dagger in the Dark"; Typescript carbon of short story, 16 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 67.2
The Good Deed and Other Stories , New York: John Day, 1970: "Duet in Asia"; Typescript carbon, 28 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 51 Folder: 199.8
The Good Deed and Other Stories , New York: John Day, 1970: "Going Home"; Typescript of short story, 13 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 51 Folder: 199.9
The Good Deed and Other Stories , New York: John Day, 1970: "Going Home"; Typescript carbon of short story, 13 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 51 Folder: 199.1
The Good Deed and Other Stories , New York: John Day, 1970: "Going Home"; Typescript carbon of short story, 13 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 51 Folder: 199.18
The Good Deed and Other Stories , New York: John Day, 1970: "Letter Home"; Facsimile of short story, 28 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 62 Folder: 248.4
The Good Deed and Other Stories , New York: John Day, 1970: "Letter Home"; Typescript of short story, 28 pp. (typescript 19 pp., facsimile [burned copy] 9 pp.)
Mixed Materials Box: 51 Folder: 199.2
The Good Deed and Other Stories , New York: John Day, 1970: "Sun Rise at Juhu"; Typescript carbon of short story, 15 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 50.1
The Good Deed and Other Stories , New York: John Day, 1970: "The Cockfight"; Typescript carbon, 20 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 51 Folder: 199.13
The Good Deed and Other Stories , New York: John Day, 1970: "The Cockfight"; Typescript of short story, 19 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 51 Folder: 199.14
The Good Deed and Other Stories , New York: John Day, 1970: "The Cockfight"; Facsimile of short story, 19 pp. (copy of VIIIa)
Mixed Materials Box: 51 Folder: 199.15
The Good Deed and Other Stories , New York: John Day, 1970: "The Cockfight"; Facsimile of short story, 19 pp. (copy of VIIIa)
Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 51
The Good Deed and Other Stories , New York: John Day, 1970: "The Courtyards of Peace" (Other title: "Mr. Chen's House"); Typescript carbon, 64 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 51 Folder: 199.11
The Good Deed and Other Stories , New York: John Day, 1970: "The Good Deed"; Typescript carbon of short story, 30 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 51 Folder: 199.5
The Good Deed and Other Stories , New York: John Day, 1970: "The Green Sari"; Typescript, 18 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 51 Folder: 199.6
The Good Deed and Other Stories , New York: John Day, 1970: "The Green Sari"; Typescript carbon of short story, 18 pp. (carbon copy of 199 IVa)
Mixed Materials Box: 51 Folder: 199.7
The Good Deed and Other Stories , New York: John Day, 1970: "The Green Sari"; Typescript carbon of short story, 18 pp. (carbon copy of 199 IVa)
Mixed Materials Box: 58 Folder: 233.1
The Good Deed and Other Stories , New York: John Day, 1970: "The Green Sari"; Typescript carbon of short story (file copy), 20 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 61 Folder: 243.1
The Lovers and Other Stories, New York: John Day, 1977: "Answer to Life"; Typescript carbon, 82 pp., moderate corrections. Inserts: Additional Miscellaneous Pages: 10 pp.
1941
Mixed Materials Box: 61 Folder: 243.2
The Lovers and Other Stories , New York: John Day, 1977: "Answer to Life"; Typescript, 84 pp.
1941
Mixed Materials Box: 61 Folder: 243.3
The Lovers and Other Stories , New York: John Day, 1977: "Answer to Life"; Typescript carbon, 80 pp.
1941
Mixed Materials Box: 33 Folder: 133.2
The Lovers and Other Stories , New York: John Day, 1977: "Miranda"; Typescript carbon, 24 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 239.1
The Lovers and Other Stories , New York: John Day, 1977: "Next Saturday and Forever"; Typescript, 9 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 239.11
The Lovers and Other Stories , New York: John Day, 1977: "Next Saturday and Forever"; Typescript, 10 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 239.12
The Lovers and Other Stories , New York: John Day, 1977: "Next Saturday and Forever"; Facsimile (burned copy), 10 pp. (copy of 239 VIb)
Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 238.4
The Lovers and Other Stories , New York: John Day, 1977: "The Kiss"; Typescript carbon, 14 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 33 Folder: 132.2
The Lovers and Other Stories , New York: John Day, 1977: "The Man Called Dead"; Typescript, 13 pp., moderate corrections
1952
Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 235.3
The Lovers and Other Stories , New York: John Day, 1977: "The Two Women"; Typescript carbon, 18 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 57 Folder: 222.1-222.2
Today and Forever , New York: John Day, 1941.; Mixed manuscript, 305 pp., mostly typescript. Publisher's manuscript, few corrections. Additional pages: handwritten preliminary pages, 6 pp. Manuscript includes following stories: "The Lesson," "The Angel," "Mr. Binney's Afternoon," "The Dance," "Shanghai Scene," "His Own Country," "Hearts Come Home," "Beyond Language" (ultimately published in Fourteen Stories ), "Tiger, Tiger," "Golden Flower," "The Face of Buddha," "Guerrilla Mother," "The Old Demon," "A Man's Foes."
Mixed Materials Box: 33 Folder: 132.1
Today and Forever , New York: John Day, 1941: "A Man's Foes" (Other Title: "Hands of the Fathers"); Typescript carbon, 37 pp., few corrections
1940
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 14.1
Today and Forever , New York: John Day, 1941: "Golden Flower" ( Woman's Home Companion , 3/40); Original holograph, 26 pp., many corrections by PSB. Inserts: handwritten 2.
Mixed Materials Box: 58 Folder: 233.4
Today and Forever , New York: John Day, 1941: "Golden Flower" ( Woman's Home Companion , 3/40); Mixed manuscript of short story (first draft), 26 pp., many corrections by PSB.
1940
Mixed Materials Box: 58 Folder: 233.5
Today and Forever , New York: John Day, 1941: "Golden Flower" ( Woman's Home Companion , 3/40); Typescript carbon of short story (final draft), 26 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 58 Folder: 233.11
Today and Forever , New York: John Day, 1941: "Guerrilla Mother"; Original typescript of short story (first draft), 23 pp., many corrections by PSB.
Mixed Materials Box: 58 Folder: 233.12
Today and Forever , New York: John Day, 1941: "Guerrilla Mother"; Typescript of short story (final draft), 26 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 238.8
Today and Forever , New York: John Day, 1941: "Hearts Come Home" ( Ladies' Home Journal , 8/35); Typescript, 12 pp., few corrections
1935
Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 238.9
Today and Forever , New York: John Day, 1941: "Hearts Come Home" ( Ladies' Home Journal , 8/35); Typescript, 21 pp.
1935
Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 238.7
Today and Forever , New York: John Day, 1941: "His Own Country"; Typescript, 37 pp.
1935
Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 240.1
Today and Forever , New York: John Day, 1941: "Mr. Binney's Afternoon" ( Woman's Home Companion , 1945; as "The Beautiful Ladies" in Collier's , 1934); Typescript of short story, 10 pp., moderate corrections by PSB.
1934
Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 236.3
Today and Forever , New York: John Day, 1941: "Shanghai Scene" ( Asia Magazine , 2/34); Typescript of short story, 6 pp., few corrections by PSB.
Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 236.4
Today and Forever , New York: John Day, 1941: "Shanghai Scene" ( Asia Magazine , 2/34); Typescript of short story, 6 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 236.5
Today and Forever , New York: John Day, 1941: "Shanghai Scene" ( Asia Magazine , 2/34); Typescript of short story, 6 pp. Incorporates corrections on 236 IIa.
Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 236.6
Today and Forever , New York: John Day, 1941: "Shanghai Scene" ( Asia Magazine , 2/34); Typescript, 6 pp. Same as 236 IIc.
Mixed Materials Box: 61 Folder: 241.4
Today and Forever , New York: John Day, 1941: "The Angel" ( Woman's Home Companion , 4/37); Typescript, 14 pp., many corrections by PSB
1937
Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 68.1
Today and Forever , New York: John Day, 1941: "The Dance" ( Collier's 3/23/35) (Other title: "Shanghai Night"); Typescript carbon, 11 pp., no corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 256.2
Today and Forever , New York: John Day, 1941: "The Dance" ( Collier's 3/23/35) (Other title: "Shanghai Night"); Typescript, 11 pp., few corrections by PSB.
Mixed Materials Box: 66 Folder: 271.6
Today and Forever , New York: John Day, 1941: "The Dance" ( Collier's 3/23/35) (Other title: "Shanghai Night"); Original typescript carbon, 8 pp., many handwritten corrections by PSB.
Mixed Materials Box: 58 Folder: 234.1
Today and Forever , New York: John Day, 1941: "The Face of Buddha" (Other title: "The Face of Gold"); Typescript of short story (original), 28 pp., moderate corrections by PSB.
Mixed Materials Box: 58 Folder: 234.2
Today and Forever , New York: John Day, 1941: "The Face of Buddha" (Other title: "The Face of Gold"); Typescript (facsimile) of short story, 28 pp. Incorporates corrections on 234 Ia.
Mixed Materials Box: 58 Folder: 234.3
Today and Forever , New York: John Day, 1941: "The Face of Buddha" (Other title: "The Face of Gold"); Typescript carbon of short story, 28 pp. (Same as 234 Ib.)
Mixed Materials Box: 58 Folder: 234.4
Today and Forever , New York: John Day, 1941: "The Face of Buddha" (Other title: "The Face of Gold"); Typescript of short story, 31 pp., many handwritten deletions and corrections. Cut version.
Mixed Materials Box: 58 Folder: 234.5
Today and Forever , New York: John Day, 1941: "The Face of Buddha" (Other title: "The Face of Gold"); Typescript of short story, 25 pp. Incorporates corrections on 234 Id.
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 251.3
Today and Forever , New York: John Day, 1941: "The Face of Buddha" (Other title: "The Face of Gold"); Original holograph of short story, 20 pp., many corrections by PSB.
1940

Series 6. Other Works

ca. 1923-1967, 2014

Scope and Contents

Includes holographs, typescripts, typescript carbons, clippings, and mixed manuscripts of published and unpublished short stories, articles, dramas/plays, novels, novellas, non-fiction works, reviews, speeches, introductions, forewords, letters, press releases, radio broadcasts, and interviews, among other material. The majority of this series is Buck's own work.

Subjects include China and its people; writing; women; international relations and war; America and its people; India; Japan; mentally handicapped children (the contemporary term, retarded, is used in the contents list); mixed race children; the Vineland Training School; the Welcome House; adoption; and many more. Two published short stories have been moved to Series 8, Oversized.

Highlights include:

a January 1923 issue of the journal The Atlantic Monthly , containing Buck's first published article, "In China, Too" (box 70, folder 282);

a typescript introduction to The Good Earth , 1949 (box 63, folder 254.1);

a holograph introduction to a series of shortwave radio broadcasts, written by Buck in Chinese characters (with romanizations in typescript) (box 50, folder 196.1);

a holograph of an untitled radio broadcast, written by Buck in Chinese characters (with romanizations in typescript) (box 51, folder 202); and

typescripts and typescript carbons of the autobiographical short story "My Chinese Nurse" (box 33, folders 134.1-134.3).

Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 265.12
"A Case Study: Welcome Home"; Two typescripts of article, 11 pp., many handwritten corrections on one copy. See 265.2 III for additional versions of this article.
Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 49.1
"A Certain Wisdom" (possible alternate title: "A Certain Woman"), for Woman's Day ; Final typescript article (?), 14 pp., few corrections, also includes note regarding filing (1967)
1967, undated
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 257.2
"A Letter from Abroad"; Typescript of article, 4 pp. (final copy)
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 25.14
"A Living Philosophy"; Holograph article with hand corrections, 11 pp.; typescript article with hand corrections and inserts, 13 pp.; typescript article with handwritten first page and corrections, 11 pp. (alternate title: "A Philosophy of Happiness")
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1.2
"A Viewpoint on China"; Original holograph article, 8 pp., with attached typescript letter (1936)
1936, undated
Mixed Materials Box: 50 Folder: 196.7
"America at War"; Typescript of shortwave radio broadcast to China. Part of the East and West Program, "America Speaks to China," (one typescript, 8 pp., and one carbon typescript, 10 pp.), many handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 259
"America Speaks to China"; Typescript of radio broadcast, part I and part II, 12 pp. each
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 25.16
"America's Individual Women"; Original holograph article, 15 pp., hand corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 25.18
"American Background"; Original typescript article, 28 pp., hand corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 36.1
"American Background"; Typed carbon article, 32 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 36.2
"American Background"; Typed carbon article, 32 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 264.2
"American Background"; Typescript of article, 32 pp., few handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 50 Folder: 196.3
"American Family"; Typescripts of shortwave radio broadcast to China. Part of the East and West Program, "America Speaks to China," (one typescript, 6 pp., and one carbon typescript, 8 pp.), many handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 50 Folder: 196.4
"America's Children"; Typescript of shortwave radio broadcast to China. Part of the East and West Program, "America Speaks to China," (one typescript, 11 pp., and one carbon typescript, 11 pp.), many handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 25.13
"America's Gunpowder Women" (alternate title: "America's Privileged Women"); Original holograph article, 19 pp., hand corrections and typescript additions
Mixed Materials Box: 50 Folder: 196.6
"America's Women"; Typescript of shortwave radio broadcast to China. Part of the East and West Program, "America Speaks to China," (one typescript, 8 pp., and one carbon typescript, 11 pp.), many handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6.1
"Antiquing in Danby"/"Antiquing in Vermont"; Original holograph, 5 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6.1
"Antiquing in Danby"/"Antiquing in Vermont"; Original typescript, 4 pp., with hand corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 13.5
"Arthur Murray Students Dance That Children May Live"; Original holograph article, 4 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3.2
"As a Man Thinketh, So He Is"; Original holograph, 7 pp.
ca. 1934
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 258.11
"At Home in the World"; Typescript carbon of speech, 15 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 258.12
"At Home in the World"; Typescript of speech, 30 pp., many handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 25.1
"Best Sellers, Born or Made"; Original holograph article, 8 pp., hand corrections (also includes handwritten list of the articles in envelope 25)
Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 236.1
"Between These Two"; Mixed manuscript of short story, approximately 75 pp., many hand written corrections. Possibly unpublished.
Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 236.2
"Between These Two"; Typescript of short story, 82 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 61 Folder: 241.1
"Between These Two"; Original typescript of short story, 54 pp., many handwritten corrections (possibly unpublished)
Mixed Materials Box: 61 Folder: 241.2
"Between These Two"; Typescript of short story, 54 pp., moderate handwritten corrections (possibly unpublished)
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 38
"Birds" and "The Story Car"; Typescript carbon short stories, 8 pp. total
Mixed Materials Box: 46 Folder: 180.3
"Characters in Fact and Fiction"; Typescript of article, 19 pp., few handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 46 Folder: 180.4
"Characters in Fact and Fiction"; Holograph of article 33 pp., many handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 258.8
"Characters in Fact and Fiction"; Typescript of speech, 18 pp. (three copies)
1936
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 258.13
"Children, American-Asian"; Typescript carbon of speech, 12 pp. (3 copies)
1964
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 265.4
"China Faces the Future"; Mixed manuscript of article, approximately 20 pp., many inserts and handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 25.6
"China Works to Win"; Original holograph article, 7 pp., hand corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 50 Folder: 198.3
"Chinese Society"; Holograph of speech, 15 pp., few handwritten corrections
1943
Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 66.2
"Christmas, 1940"; Typescript carbon short story outline, 8 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 251.2
"Christmas, 1940"; Holograph of outline for short story, 7 pp., many handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 53.4
"Court of Love" (excerpt of The Living Reed ); Magazine clipping, 8 pp. (6 leaves)
1963
Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 53.1
"Crucifixion"; Typescript carbon short story, 13 pp., hand corrected
Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 53.2
"Crusade"; Original(?) typescript short story, 11 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 53.3
"Crusade"; Typescript carbon short story, 10 pp.
1935
Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 68.2
"Dear Son"; Typescript carbon of short story, 10 pp., few corrections
1957
Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 66.1
"Deny It If You Can"; Original (?) holograph of short story, 18 pp., corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 67.1
"Deny It If You Can"; Typescript carbon of short story, 24 pp., corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 69.1
"Descent into China"; Typescript carbon of short story, 16 pp., "not proofed by PSB" (noted as This Week 1944)
Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 69.1
"Descent into China"; Typescript carbon of short story, 16 pp., "copy for Engel" (noted as This Week 1944)
Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 69.1
"Descent into China"; Facsimile (burned copy) of typescript short story, 16 pp. (noted as This Week , Aug. 1944)
Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 79.3
"Escape Me Never"; Typescript short story, 29 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 66 Folder: 271.1
"Escape Me Never"; Mixed manuscript of short story, 25 pp., many written corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 58 Folder: 234.6
"Faithfully Yours"; Typescript of short story (file copy), 43 pp., few handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 251.1
"Faithfully Yours"; Holograph of magazine article, 122 pp., many handwritten corrections (published in Redbook )
1942
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7.2
"Fiction and the Front Page"; Original typescript article, 9 pp., with hand corrections, 3 pp. of handwritten inserts, and attached typescript letter (1935)
ca. 1935
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 258.3
"Fiction and the Front Page"; Typescript of speech, 17 pp.
1935
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4.1
"Fiction vs. Biography"; Original holograph, 3 pp. (for the Chicago Tribune )
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 252.1
"First Meeting"; Typescript of article, 4 pp., possibly an introduction or foreword
Mixed Materials Box: 61 Folder: 242.7
"For a Thing Done" (alternate title: "Ransom"); Typescript of short story, 46 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12.2
"For new PSB [Foundation] Brochure"; Includes description of the Pearl S. Buck Foundation, Stratton Productions, Welcome House
July 1964
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 25.5
"Friends and Enemies of China"; Original holograph article, 11 pp., hand corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 95
"Growing Up in China"; Typescript carbon of article, hand corrected, and 1 p. letter (1941) from David Lloyd indicating the typescript was returned to Buck
1941, undated
Mixed Materials Box: 23 Folder: 103.3
"Heart of a Man"; Typescript carbon, 35 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10
"Heart of the Jungle"; Original holograph, 24 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 23 Folder: 103.2
"Heart of the Jungle"; Typescript, typescript carbon of short story, 22 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 17.2
"Her Father's Wife"; Original holograph, 8 pp.
1938
Mixed Materials Box: 62 Folder: 245.1
"Horse face"; Typescript of short story, 20 pp., few handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 62 Folder: 245.2
"Horse face"; Facsimile (burned copy) of short story, 20 pp., few handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 13.1
"If It Must Be So"; Original holograph short story, 32 pp., few corrections (notes on original folder: purchased, Pictorial Review 1938, not published
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 13.2
"If It Must Be So"; Copy of original in 13 Ia
Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 66.4
"If One Must Yield"; Typescript of outline II, 22 pp., few corrections by PSB
Mixed Materials Box: 62 Folder: 245.3
"Images"; Typescript of short story, 26 pp., few handwritten corrections (old version)
Mixed Materials Box: 62 Folder: 245.4
"Images"; Typescript of short story, 27 pp., few handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 62 Folder: 245.5
"Images"; Typescript carbon of short story, 27 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 70 Folder: 282
"In China, Too," The Atlantic Monthly , January 1923; Journal containing Pearl Buck's first published article
1923
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 256.1
"In Search of a Book"; Typescript of article published in The Wilson Bulletin, 3 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 61 Folder: 244.1
"Incident at Wang's Corners"; Published short story, Pittsburgh Press's This Week Magazine. Moved to box 81, folder 2.
1947
Mixed Materials Box: 62 Folder: 245.6
"Instead of Diamonds"; Typescript carbon of short story, 80 pp., few handwritten corrections (possibly unpublished)
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 25.17
"Japan Loses the War"; Original holograph article, 9 pp., hand corrections
1938
Mixed Materials Box: 62 Folder: 248.1
"John-John Chinaman"; Typescript carbon of short story, 35 pp., many handwritten corrections (possibly unpublished)
Mixed Materials Box: 62 Folder: 248.2
"John-John Chinaman"; Typescript carbon of short story, 27 pp. (possibly unpublished)
Mixed Materials Box: 62 Folder: 248.3
"John-John Chinaman"; Typescript carbon of short story, 28 pp., last revision (possibly unpublished)
1942
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 264.5
"Let's Choose to Live"; Typescript carbon of article, 5 pp., few handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 258.15
"Letter to Certain Young Women in Japan"; Typescript carbon of speech, 4 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 258.4
"Literature and Life"; Typescript of speech, 22 pp., many corrections
1938
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 258.5
"Literature and Life"; Typescript of speech, 20 pp., many corrections
1938
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 258.6
"Literature and Life"; Typescript of speech (two copies), 20 pp., first draft
1938
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 258.7
"Literature and Life"; Typescript of speech, 20 pp., first draft
1938
Mixed Materials Box: 70 Folder: 280.4
"Literature and Life"; Holograph, 26 pp., many corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 62 Folder: 249.1
"Little Red"; Typescript of short story, 13 pp.
1945
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7.3
"Lost Souls"; Original holograph article, 4 pp., with attached typescript letter (1936)
ca. 1936
Mixed Materials Box: 30 Folder: 124
"Love and the Morning Calm"; Typescript carbon of short story, 107 pp., few corrections. Insert: Memo, 2 pp.
1951
Mixed Materials Box: 62 Folder: 249.2
"Love and the Morning Calm"; Mixed manuscript of short story, 106 pp., many handwritten corrections (possibly unpublished)
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 25.2
"Men and Women"; Original holograph article, 16 pp., hand corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 17.3
"Mother & Daughter"; Original holograph, 22 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 240.2
"Mother and Daughter" (also "My Beloved"); Typescript of short story, 33 pp., few handwritten corrections (possibly unpublished)
1938
Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 240.6
"Mrs. Jones of Jerrell Street"; Typescript of short story, 14 pp., many handwritten corrections (possibly unpublished)
1966
Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 240.7
"Mrs. Jones of Jerrell Street"; Carbon typescript of short story, 17 pp., few corrections (possibly unpublished)
Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 240.8
"Mrs. Jones of Jerrell Street"; Carbon typescript of short story, 17 pp., few corrections (possibly unpublished)
Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 240.3
"Mrs. Whittaker's Secret" (also "The Blonde Brunette"); Typescript of short story, 22 pp., many handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 240.4
"Mrs. Whittaker's Secret" (also "The Blonde Brunette"); Typescript of short story, 29 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 240.5
"Mrs. Whittaker's Secret" (also "The Blonde Brunette"); Typescript of short story, 29 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 57 Folder: 226.3
"Mrs. Witler's Husband"; Typescript of short story, 19pp, few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 33 Folder: 134.1
"My Chinese Nurse"; Typescript of autobiographical short story, 9 pp., few corrections (original version). Inserts: letter to Mrs. Walsh (Pearl S. Buck)
Mixed Materials Box: 33 Folder: 134.2
"My Chinese Nurse"; Typescript carbons (two copies) of autobiographical short story, 9 pp. each, few handwritten corrections on one copy
Mixed Materials Box: 33 Folder: 134.3
"My Chinese Nurse"; Typescript (one) and typescript carbons (three) of autobiographical short story, 11 pp. each, few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 46 Folder: 179.6
"My Indian Family"; Typescript carbon of play/drama, 116 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 253.5
"My World in Florida," Personal Life; Typescript carbon of short article, 11 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 258.14
"New Americans in Japan"; Typescript of speech, 11 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 260.1
"New Americans in Japan"; Mixed manuscript of article, 10 pp., 3 pp. handwritten inserts, many handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 260.2
"New Americans in Japan"; Typescript carbons of article, 11 pp., few handwritten corrections (2 copies)
Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 238.6
"No Other God"; Typescript of short story, 23 pp.
1935
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4.3
"Of Men and Measuring Worms"/"Light In Darkness"; Original typescript article (1 p. typescript letter [1935], 12 pp. typescript hand corrected, 2 pp. handwritten inserts)
ca. 1935
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3.1
"On the Cultivation of Young Genius"; Original holograph, 3 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 264.4
"On the Discovery of America"; Typescript of article, 16 pp., few handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 38 Folder: 152.1
"On the Writing of Novels"; Holograph of speech (original), 14 pp., few corrections
1933
Mixed Materials Box: 38 Folder: 152.2
"On the Writing of Novels"; Mixed manuscript of speech (original), 16 pp. typescript, few corrections. Insert: 2 pp. handwritten.
1933
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 258.2
"On the Writing of Novels"; Typescript of speech, 13 pp., few handwritten corrections
1933
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 15
"One of Our People"; Original holograph, 28 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 239.6
"Open the Door, Lady" (Other title: "Leading Lady"); Typescript carbon of short story, 51 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 25.3
"Opportunity"; Original holograph article, 3 pp., hand corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 66.3
"Outline for Novelette"; Three copies of novella outline (one typescript, two typescript carbon, each 7 pp.), no corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 46 Folder: 180.2
"Parable of Plain People"; Typescript of short story, 9 pp., moderate handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 39 Folder: 156.1-156.2
"Plain People"; Typescripts and typescript carbons of radio play and program, multiple copies, many with corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 46 Folder: 180.1
"Pleasant Evening"; Three copies of short story (one facsimile of typescript, two carbon typescripts), 15 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 49 Folder: 191.3
"Ransom"; Typescript of short story (first draft, incomplete), 45 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 49 Folder: 191.4
"Ransom"; Typescript of short story (incomplete), 29 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 49 Folder: 191.5
"Ransom"; Typescript of short story (incomplete), 29 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 25.15
"Religion is in Again"; Original holograph article, 21 pp., hand corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 49 Folder: 191.2
"Revenge in a Beauty Shop"; Typescript of short story, 27 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 264.1
"Seeing America"; Four typescripts of article, 6 pp., few handwritten corrections
1934
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 25.19
"Slice of America"; Original holograph article, 29 pp., hand corrections and typescript first page
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 25.1
"Speaking as a Mother"; Original holograph article, 7 pp., hand corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 24.1
"Stay As You Are" or "Men and Women"; Typescript play outline, 35 pp. (missing p. 34)
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 24.2
"Stay As You Are" or "Men and Women"; Original holograph play draft with hand corrections, approximately 112 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 66 Folder: 271.7
"Stay As You Are" or "Men and Women"; Holograph, 33 pp., many corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 238.2
"Summer Fruit"; Typescript of short story, 29 pp., few corrections (possibly unpublished)
Mixed Materials Box: 51 Folder: 200
"Sun Yat-Sen"; Typescript of play/drama, 16 pp., beginning of unfinished play, many handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 25.8
"Thanks to Japan"; Original holograph article, 5 pp., hand corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 264.3
"The Adventure of Living" (also titled: "The Open Gate"); Two typescripts of article, 5 pp., few handwritten corrections
1935
Mixed Materials Box: 70 Folder: 280.1
"The American Way," Del Hotel Astor to honor Dorothy Thompson; Holograph of speech, 2 pp, few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 61 Folder: 242.1
"The Assignation"; Carbon typescript of short story, 26 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 61 Folder: 242.2
"The Assignation"; Facsimile (burned copy) of short story, 22 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 61 Folder: 242.4
"The Beauty Shop" (Series): "Revenge in a Beauty Shop," "Procession of Song," "Mrs. Whittaker's Secret," "Seed of Sin," "Gold Mine"; Typescript carbon of a series of short stories, approximately 160 pp.
1939
Mixed Materials Box: 58 Folder: 232.9
"The Big Dance"; Typescript carbon of short story, 19 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 61 Folder: 241.5
"The Big Gate"; Typescript of unfinished short story, 7 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 61 Folder: 241.6
"The Big Gate"; Typescript of short story, 7 pp., moderate corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 49.2
"The Black Lace Evening Gown"; Original holograph, 19 pp., corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 49.3
"The Black Lace Evening Gown"; Final typescript short story, 16 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 58 Folder: 232.2
"The Bleeding Heart"; Typescript carbon, 21 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 58 Folder: 232.3
"The Bleeding Heart"; Facsimile (burned copy), 21 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 58 Folder: 232.6
"The Bullfrog"; Typescript carbon of short story, 16 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 58 Folder: 232.7
"The Bullfrog"; Typescript of short story, 16 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 58 Folder: 232.8
"The Bullfrog"; Typescript carbon of short story, 14 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 52.2
"The Castle"; Typescript carbon short story, 27 pp., few corrections, purchased by Women's Home but never published
1948
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 258.16
"The Children We Left Behind"; Typescript carbon of speech, 7 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2.2
"The Chinese Attitude Toward Graft"; Original holograph, 25 pp.
ca. 1934
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2.2
"The Chinese Attitude Toward Graft"; Original typescript, 14 pp. (4 pp. handwritten), hand corrected and inserts
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2.2
"The Chinese Attitude Toward Graft"; First revised draft, 15 pp. (additional 5 pp. handwritten) with inserts and corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 45 Folder: 179.1
"The Crystal"; Facsimile (burned copy) of typescript of play/drama 109 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 67.3
"The Ember"; Typescript carbon of short story, 17 pp., corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 45 Folder: 179.2
"The Empress"; Typescript carbon of play/drama, 144 pp.
1937
Mixed Materials Box: 45 Folder: 179.3
"The Empress"; Typescript carbon of play/drama, final copy, 144 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 234.7
"The Faulty Heart"; Mixed manuscript of short story, approximately 75 pp., many handwritten corrections. Inserts: approximately 6 pp. of additions at end of work. (possibly unpublished)
Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 234.8
"The Faulty Heart"; Typescript carbon of short story, 96 pp., few handwritten corrections (possibly unpublished)
Mixed Materials Box: 46 Folder: 179.4
"The First Wife"; Typescript carbon of play/drama, 126 pp, few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 58 Folder: 233.6
"The Good Rich Man"; Typescript of short story (unpublished?) (file copy), 90 pp., few corrections. Inserts: Note to Mrs. Shaddinger
Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 235.5
"The Good Rich Man"; Typescript of short story, 93 pp. (possibly unpublished)
Mixed Materials Box: 46 Folder: 179.5
"The Great House"; Typescript of play/drama, 84 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 30 Folder: 125.1-125.2
"The Long Way Round"; Typescript of story published serially in Cosmopolitan , approximately 322 pp. with many handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 257.3
"The Most Unforgettable Character I Have Ever Known"; Typescript and two typescript carbons of article, 6 pp., few handwritten corrections
1940
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.9
"The New Age"; Typescript and three typescript carbons of article, 3 pp., many handwritten corrections on typescript.
1957
Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 239.8
"The Night of the Dance"; Typescript of short story, 21 pp., few corrections (possibly unpublished)
1963
Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 239.9
"The Night of the Dance"; Typescript carbon of short story, 24 pp., few corrections (possibly unpublished)
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 261.1
"The Novelist and the Best Seller"; Typescript of article, 9 pp., many handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 261.2
"The Novelist and the Best Seller"; Typescript of article, 9 pp., many handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 70 Folder: 280.9
"The Novelist and the Best Seller"; Holograph, 11 pp., many corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 70 Folder: 279.1
"The Place of Minorities in the Defense Program," speech given at New York Conference of Social Work; Typescript of speech, 18 pp., moderate handwritten corrections
1940
Mixed Materials Box: 66 Folder: 271.2
"The Pleasant Vampire"; Mixed manuscript of short story, 22 pp., many handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 49 Folder: 191.6
"The Return"; Typescript of short story, 10 pp., many handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 49 Folder: 191.1
"The River"; Typescripts of short story (two copies), 4 pp., few handwritten corrections on one copy
1931
Mixed Materials Box: 66 Folder: 271.11
"The Royal Family"; Holograph, 19 pp., many handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 70 Folder: 279.6
"The Royal Family"; Typescript of short story
Mixed Materials Box: 70 Folder: 279.6
"The Royal Family"; Typescript carbon of short story
Mixed Materials Box: 70 Folder: 279.5
"The Royal Family," also titled "Stranger than Fiction"; Typescript of short story, 22 pp., possibly unpublished
Mixed Materials Box: 60 Folder: 238.3
"The Secret, Life or Death"; Typescripts (one typescript, two typescript carbons) of outline, 5 pp.
1958
Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 236.7
"The Sheriff"; Typescript of short story, 13 pp. (possibly unpublished)
Mixed Materials Box: 66 Folder: 271.8
"The Sheriff"; Holograph, 10 pp., moderate handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.14
"The Simple, Undramatic Things We All Can Do," for South Today ; Typescript carbon of article, 16 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 62 Folder: 249.3
"The Solitary Priest"; Typescript of short story, 7 pp., few handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 62 Folder: 249.4
"The Solitary Priest"; Facsimile (burned copy) of short story, 7 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 255.1
"The Story Car"; Holograph of unfinished short story, 4 pp., moderate corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 237.1
"The Three Daughters"; Typescript of short story, 24 pp. (possibly unpublished)
Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 237.4
"The Trap"; Typescript of short story, 24 pp., few corrections (possibly unpublished)
Mixed Materials Box: 62 Folder: 247.2
"The Unwritten Rules"; Published short story, Collier's. Moved to box 81, folder 3.
1953
Mixed Materials Box: 62 Folder: 247.1
"The Useless Wife"; Typescript of non-fiction work, 26 pp., few handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 62 Folder: 250.2
"The Village by the Sea"; Typescript carbon of short story, 7 pp., few handwritten corrections
1953
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 257.1
"The Wandering Little God"; Typescript and facsimile (burned copy) of article, 11 pp.
1928
Mixed Materials Box: 57 Folder: 224.1
"The White Bird"; Mixed manuscript of play, 119 pp., many handwritten corrections
1957
Mixed Materials Box: 57 Folder: 224.2
"The White Bird"; Typescript of play, incomplete, Act Two only, 122 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 57 Folder: 224.3
"The White Bird"; Typescript carbon, incomplete, Act Three, Scene 1 only, 4 pp.
1958
Mixed Materials Box: 57 Folder: 224.4
"The White Bird"; Mixed manuscript of play, mostly typescript carbon with handwritten inserts, approximately 56 pp., moderate handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 62 Folder: 250.3
"The Woman Who Was Changed"; Facsimile (burned copy) of novella or short story, 91 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 14.2
"The Wounded Soldier"; Original holograph, 5 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1.1
"The Writing of East Wind - West Wind"; Original holograph article, 4 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 264.6
"This I Believe"; Typescript of article, 3 pp., few handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 237.2
"Three Nights with Love"; Typescript carbon of short story, 14pp. (possibly unpublished)
1957
Mixed Materials Box: 51 Folder: 203.1
"Tiger! Tiger!"; Typescript of play/drama, 129 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 51 Folder: 203.2
"Tiger! Tiger!"; Typescript of play/drama, 129 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 51 Folder: 203.3
"Tiger! Tiger!"; Typescript of play/drama, 129 pp., many handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 46 Folder: 179.7
"Tiger, Tiger"; See box 51, folder 203
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 253.2
"To Be a Welcome Guest," Personal Life; Typescript carbon of short article, 4 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12.1
"To Wake the Sleeping Land"; Original holograph, 14 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 59 Folder: 237.3
"Too Many Flowers"; Typescript carbon of short story, 38 pp. (possibly unpublished)
Mixed Materials Box: 70 Folder: 279.3
"Town Hall of the Air"; Typescript carbon of speech or radio broadcast, 4 pp.
1942
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5.1
"Tribute to Dr. Machen"; Original holograph, 3 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 56 Folder: 218
"Voices in the House"; Mixed manuscript of T.V. play adaptation, 63 pp., 2 pp. handwritten, many handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 57 Folder: 226.1
"Wang Ching and the White Boy"; Typescript of short story, 5 pp., few handwritten corrections. Inserts: attached note
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.1
"Welcome Home, INC"; Typescript carbons of two articles about Welcome Home, Inc., 3 pp., 11 pp., many handwritten corrections
1957
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 265.2
"Welcome House"; Two typescripts of article for Doylestown Intelligencer , 6 pp., 5 pp., many handwritten corrections on one copy, also one letter from PSB responding to a donation to the Welcome House (1957)
Mixed Materials Box: 70 Folder: 280.6
"What Can Women Do About War"; Holograph, 31 pp., many corrections
1940
Mixed Materials Box: 58 Folder: 227
"What the Heart Must"; Typescript of short story, 19 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 58 Folder: 231.1
"What the Heart Must"; Holograph of short story, 15 pp., moderate handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 70 Folder: 279.2
"What We Are Fighting for In the Orient," Christian Science Monitor ; Typescript carbon of article, 11 pp., few handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 46 Folder: 179.8
"Whatever It Is You Want"; Typescript (facsimile) of play/drama, 88 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 62 Folder: 249.5
"What's your Hurry?"; Typescript of article, 8 pp., few handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 62 Folder: 249.6
"What's your Hurry?"; Typescript of article, 8 pp., few handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 258.1
"When a Daughter Marries"; Typescript carbon of speech, 12 pp., few handwritten corrections
1949
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 253.4
"When I Was a Child," Personal Life; Typescript carbon of short article, 2 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7.1
"Where are the Young Rebels?"; Original typescript article, 14 pp. with hand corrections, with attached typescript letter (1935)
ca. 1935
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 253.3
"Where I Live," Personal Life; Typescript carbon of short article, 5 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 50 Folder: 196.2
"Who Are the Americans?"; Typescripts of shortwave radio broadcast to China. Part of the East and West Program, "What is America?" (two typescript copies, 10 pp., and 12 pp., and one typescript carbon copy, 13 pp.), many handwritten corrections. Insert: Question sent to Lloyd for BBC, 1 p.
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 264.7
"Windows to the World"; Typescript carbon of article, 7 pp., few handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 253.1
"Winter in Vermont," Personal Life; Typescript and typescript carbon of short article, 7 and 8 pp., many handwritten corrections.
Mixed Materials Box: 58 Folder: 231.3
"Woman and War"; Holograph of speech, 15 pp., moderate corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 58 Folder: 231.2
"Women - a Minority Group"; Holograph of article, pp. 5, many corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6.2
"Women at Work"; Original typescript article, 4 pp., hand corrections, with attached typescript letter (1935)
ca. 1935
Mixed Materials Box: 50 Folder: 196.5
"Workers in America"; Typescript of shortwave radio broadcast to China. Part of the East and West Program, "What is America?" (one typescript and one carbon typescript), 8 pp., many handwritten corrections.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11
"You and Your Miracle"; Original holograph, 12 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5.2
"Youth in China"; Original typescript article, 4 pp., hand corrections, with attached typescript letter (1935)
ca. 1935
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 254.7
14 Book reviews, book descriptions, forewords, introductions, epilogues, and other materials; Typescripts and typescript carbons, including information on Peony , abridged My Several Worlds , cook book, Pavilion of Women , The Long Love , Water Buffalo Children , Kinfolk , How It Happens , and other works.
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 16
14 Book Reviews/Articles for "Asia Bookshelf" Column in Asia Magazine ; Original manuscripts, 100 handwritten pages and 29 typed pages with hand corrections (also includes attached letters from Miss Buck's secretary [1935-1936])
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 254.1
1949 Introduction to The Good Earth ; Typescript with attached clippings and handwritten notations, 12 pp., many handwritten corrections; also includes 2014 computer printout of published introduction from 1962 edition
1949, 2014
Mixed Materials Box: 70 Folder: 280.11
About Books; Holograph, 4 pp., moderate corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 70 Folder: 280.1
About Philosophy of Living, untitled; Holograph, 8 pp, moderate corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 254.3
Additional material for The Long Love (John Sedges); Typescript, 4 pp., many handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 25.4
American Hurry (untitled); Original holograph article, 6 pp., hand corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 25.12
Americans Hear Things (untitled); Original holograph article, 16 pp., hand corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.3
Approximately 10 articles about Retarded Children; Typescripts and typescript carbons, few handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266. 31
Approximately 15 articles; Typescripts and typescript carbons
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 265.1
Article; "To Be a Mother"--typescript of article, 5 pp., few handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 265.1
Article; "Japan - Retardation"--typescript of article, 3 pp., many handwritten corrections
1952
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.8
Article about adoption; Mixed manuscript and two typescript carbons of article, 4 pp., many handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 265.7
Article and Speech; "Vineland Training School"--typescript of article, 3 pp., many handwritten corrections. Contains PSB signature.
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 265.7
Article and Speech; "Must the World Divide on Race Lines?"--typescript of speech, 5 pp., moderate handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.7
Article for Herald-Tribune Books; Typescript and typescript carbon, 3 pp., few handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 255.2
Article for Liberty in answer to Madame Chiang Kai-shek; Holograph of article for Liberty Magazine, 7 pp., many corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 255.3
Article for Liberty in answer to Madame Chiang Kai-shek; Typescript of article for Liberty Magazine, 7 pp., moderate corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 265.6
Articles; "The Tinder and the Flame"--typescript of article, 4 pp., moderate handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 265.6
Articles; "Freedom, East and West"--mixed manuscript of article, approximately 9 pp., 4 inserts, many handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 56.2
Atomic Quest; Typescript carbon outline for TV play, 26 pp. including foreword, few corrections
1957
Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 56.3
Atomic Quest; Typescript carbon outline for TV play, 26 pp. including foreword, without corrections of #56 IIa
1957
Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 56.3
Atomic Quest; Typescript carbon outline for TV play, 26 pp. including foreword, without corrections of #56 IIa
1957
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 37.1
Beauty Shop Series: "The Perfect Hairdresser"; Original holograph short story, 17 pp. (note on original folder: "unsold--Part used in "Revenge"")
1939
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 37.4
Beauty Shop Series: "Gold Mine"; Original holograph short story, 21 pp. (note on original folder: " This Week 1940")
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 37.5
Beauty Shop Series: "Procession of Song"; Original holograph short story, 23 pp. (note on original folder: " This Week 1940")
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 37.2
Beauty Shop Series: "Revenge in a Beauty Shop"; Original typescript short story, 27 pp. with 2 pp. handwritten (note on original folder: "Taken from "Perfect Hairdresser" - This Week 1939")
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 37.3
Beauty Shop Series: "Seed of Sin"; Original holograph short story, 28 pp. (note on original folder: "As "Snake at the Picnic" - This Week 1941")
Mixed Materials Box: 70 Folder: 281
Between Two Worlds , 1992; Typescript of book manuscript, 132 pp., few handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 265.1
Book Review and Letter; "An Island Summer"--typescript of book review, 1 pp., moderate handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 265.1
Book Review and Letter; Letter to David Lloyd, agent, about a story "The Woman Who Was Successful" she wrote for publication 1936--holograph and typescript of letter, 2 pp., few handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.19
Book Review of An Island Summer , by Walter Mangus Teller; Typescript of book review; 1 p.
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.12
Book Review of The Geography of Hunger , by Dr. Josue de Castro for "Book Find Club News"; Typescript of book review, 3 pp.
1952
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.13
Book Review of The Quaker Approach ; Typescript carbon of book review, 3 pp., few corrections
1952
Mixed Materials Box: 70 Folder: 280.5
Broadcast - Mr. Weeks; Holograph, 7 pp., many corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 70 Folder: 280.3
Broadcast - Orson Welles; Holograph, 4 pp., moderate corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 265.9
Broadcast and Speech; "Introduction to the United Italies" (at Writers' Congress, World's Fair Ground, 1939)--typescript of broadcast or interview, 8 pp., many handwritten corrections
1939
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 265.9
Broadcast and Speech; Chinese Industrial Cooperative Speech, 1940--holograph and typescript of speech, 10 pp., many handwritten corrections
1940
Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 58.1
China Gold ; Original typescript of serial for Collier's , 253 pp., hand corrected (folder 1 of 2)
Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 58.2
China Gold ; Original typescript of serial for Collier's , 253 pp., hand corrected (folder 2 of 2)
Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 52.1
China Stage ; Typescript carbon novel (serial?), second typing, 203 pp., hand corrected
Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 57.1-57.2
China Stage ; First typescript of novel (published as a magazine serial), 210 typewritten pp. with hand corrections, 12 handwritten pp. of inserts
1944?
Mixed Materials Box: 38 Folder: 155.1
Conversation held between Mrs. Walsh (Pearl S. Buck) and Mrs. Pandit; Typescript of conversation, 282 pp. (two copies)
1945
Mixed Materials Box: 70 Folder: 280.12
Delivered at request of forum in answer to article "Children You Can Have Me"; Holograph, 8 pp., moderate corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 73
Dragon Seed ; Typescript movie script, over 190 pp., some corrections.
1943
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 265.5
East and West radio program script by PSB and others; Typescript and typescript carbon of radio program script, 9 pp., 10 pp., many handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.6
Epilogue; Typescript, 6 pp., many handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.16
Excerpts from Letters to Welcome House; Typescript carbon of letter excerpts, 7 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 40 Folder: 161.1
Flight into China (Other titles: Peony , Plum Blossom ); Original container folder for typescript containing label (161.2-161.3)
Mixed Materials Box: 40 Folder: 161.2-161.3
Flight into China (Other titles: Peony , Plum Blossom ); Typescript of play, copy of final draft, 254 pp., few handwritten corrections.
Mixed Materials Box: 40 Folder: 163
Flight into China (Other titles: Peony , Plum Blossom ); Holograph of play, 106 pp., many corrections.
Mixed Materials Box: 46 Folder: 181
Flight into China (Other titles: Plum Blossom , Peony ); Typescript carbon of first draft of play (3 acts), drama, 122 pp., many corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 82
Flight into China ( Peony ); Holograph rough draft of a play, 130 pp., corrections, some typed inserts.
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 265.3
Foreword and Radio Broadcast; "The Shrimp Get Hurt," 1956--holograph of foreword, 2 pp., many handwritten corrections.
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 265.3
Foreword and Radio Broadcast; "Of Men and Books"--typescript carbon of radio broadcast, 6 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 252.1
Foreword for a book about the Lucky Dragon; Typescript and four typescript carbons of foreword, 2 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 254.4
Foreword for American Triptych ; Mixed manuscript, 4 pp., with many handwritten and two typescript carbons, 3 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 252.12
Foreword for book by Toru Matsumoto about experiences in the United States; Typescript and three typescript carbons of foreword, 1 p.
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 252.9
Foreword for book for writers; Typescript and typescript carbon of foreword, 2 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 252.14
Foreword for book, Japan by Lafcadio Hearn; Typescript carbon of book foreword, 3 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 252.13
Foreword for Experiment in International Living by Donald Watt; Typescript and three typescript carbons of foreword, 2 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.24
Foreword for Kikou Yalata's book, Lady of Beauty ; Typescript carbon, 6 pp.
1954
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 252.11
Foreword for Mrs. Sawada's work with children of mixed ancestry in Japan; Typescript and two typescript carbons of foreword, 2 pp., typescript signed by PSB and contains many handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 254.5
Forewords for The Chinese Children Next Door , The Water Buffalo Children , The Dragon Fish , and Yu Lan: Flying Boy of China ; Typescript, 2 pp., moderate handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 18.1
Harmony Hill ; Original holograph of unfinished novel, 93 pp.
1938
Mixed Materials Box: 22 Folder: 102.1
Harmony Hill ; Typescript of unfinished novel, partial copy with few corrections, 21 pp. Also includes Work Memo
Mixed Materials Box: 22 Folder: 102.2
Harmony Hill ; Typescript of unfinished novel, 115 pp., with few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 22 Folder: 102.3
Harmony Hill ; Typescript of unfinished novel, 115 pp., with few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 22 Folder: 102.4
Harmony Hill , Synopsis; Typescript, novel synopsis, 10 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 Folder: 101
Harmony Home (Other title: Harmony Hill ); Mixed manuscript of unfinished novel, 144 pp., many handwritten corrections. Inserts: handwritten 15 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 23 Folder: 104.2
"High and Mighty"; Typescript of short story, 22 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 23 Folder: 104.3
"High and Mighty"; Typescript of short story, 22 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 25 Folder: 111
Imperial Woman (Other title: The Empress ); Mixed manuscript of play, mostly handwritten, possibly a screenplay, approximately 90 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 49 Folder: 189.1
Inside Asia Book Review; Holograph of book review for John Gunther's Inside Asia , written for publication in Asia Magazine ,15 pp., moderate corrections by PSB
1939
Mixed Materials Box: 49 Folder: 189.4
Institute of Pacific Relations and Books (untitled); Holograph of article, possibly a book review, written for publication in Asia Magazine , 11 pp., few corrections by PSB
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 252.7
Introduction for a book on Indian epics; Typescript of an introduction, 8 pp., many handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 252.5
Introduction for Booklist : American Library Association; Typescript and typescript carbon of introduction, 3 pp., 2 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 252.8
Introduction for handbook by Dr. Levinson for parents of retarded children; Typescript of introduction, 3 pp., many handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 254.2
Introduction for The Man Who Changed China ; Typescript and typescript carbon, 1 p.
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 252.3
Introduction to book by Robert Paye ; Typescript and three typescript carbons of introduction to book by Robert Payne, 5 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 252.4
Introduction to book on Pearl Harbor, 1942; Two typescripts and typescript carbon of introduction, 3 pp., 2 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 252.2
Introduction to book, The Five Brothers: The Story of Mahabharata of India ; Typescript carbon, 8 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 50 Folder: 196.1
Introduction to Shortwave Radio Broadcasts to China; Mixed manuscript, Pearl S. Buck's introduction to shortwave radio broadcast series to China. Includes 2 pp. in handwritten Chinese with romanizations in typescript, 2 pp. transcription of Chinese document.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9.3
Introductions and Foreword; Introduction to Mrs. Rudolph's Book--original holograph, 4 pp.
1949
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9.3
Introductions and Foreword; Introduction to a book by Robert Payne--original holograph, 8 pp.
1949
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9.3
Introductions and Foreword; Lao Hsiang--original typescript, 1 p.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9.3
Introductions and Foreword; Foreword to Marco Polo--original holograph, 2 pp.
1949
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 252.6
Introductory note to The Legend of Tschi-Niu ; Typescript carbon, 3 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 25.11
Japanese Propaganda (untitled); Original holograph article, 5 pp., hand corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 49 Folder: 189.2
Jawaharlal Nehru Autobiography Book Review; Holograph of book review, 7 pp., moderate corrections by PSB
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 255.4
Liberty Magazine; Magazine containing article that PSB responded to, December 21, 1940
1940
Mixed Materials Box: 33 Folder: 134.4
"Mrs. Barclay's Christmas Present"; Typescript of short story, 18 pp., many handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 61 Folder: 244.4
My Indian Family ; Typescript carbon of 2 act drama/play
Mixed Materials Box: 61 Folder: 244.5
My Indian Family ; Typescript of drama/play script, 90 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.1
My Indian Family ; Typescript carbon of drama/play, 114 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.2
My Indian Family ; Typescript carbon of drama/play, 114 pp.
1958
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.3
My Indian Family ; Typescript carbon of drama/play, incomplete
Mixed Materials Box: 36 Folder: 142
Now and Forever ; Typescript of novella, 187 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 36 Folder: 143
Now and Forever ; Typescript of novella, 177 pp., moderate handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 18.3
Outline for Novella; Original holograph, 6 1/2 pp. (note at top of first page says "(title later) Sketches")
Mixed Materials Box: 41 Folder: 165.1
Plum Blossoms (other titles: Flight into China , Peony ); Original container folder (165.2I)
Mixed Materials Box: 41 Folder: 165.2
Plum Blossoms (other titles: Flight into China , Peony ); Typescript carbon of drama, a play in 4 scenes, 107 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 41 Folder: 165.3
Plum Blossoms (other titles: Flight into China , Peony ); Original container folder (165.4II)
Mixed Materials Box: 41 Folder: 165.4
Plum Blossoms (other titles: Flight into China , Peony ); Typescript carbon of drama, a play in 4 scenes, 107 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 41 Folder: 165.5
Plum Blossoms (other titles: Flight into China , Peony ); Typescript carbon of drama, a play in 4 scenes, 139 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 41 Folder: 165.6
Plum Blossoms (other titles: Flight into China , Peony ); Typescript carbon of drama, a play in 4 scenes, 139 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 41 Folder: 165.7
Plum Blossoms (other titles: Flight into China , Peony ); Original container folder (165.8V)
Mixed Materials Box: 41 Folder: 165.8
Plum Blossoms (other titles: Flight into China , Peony ); Typescript carbon of drama, a 3 act play, 48 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 41 Folder: 165.9
Plum Blossoms (other titles: Flight into China , Peony ); Original container folder (165.10 VI)
Mixed Materials Box: 41 Folder: 165.1
Plum Blossoms (other titles: Flight into China , Peony ); Typescript carbon of drama, a 3 act play, 129 pp. (a different version from 165.8)
Mixed Materials Box: 41 Folder: 165.11
Plum Blossoms (other titles: Flight into China , Peony ); Typescript of drama, a 3 act play, 154 pp., few handwritten corrections
1966
Mixed Materials Box: 39 Folder: 157.1
Plum Blossoms (Other titles: Peony , Flight into China ); Typescript carbon of a play in 4 scenes, 107 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 39 Folder: 157.2
Plum Blossoms (Other titles: Peony , Flight into China ); Original container folder for typescript carbon (157.1 I).
Mixed Materials Box: 39 Folder: 157.3
Plum Blossoms (Other titles: Peony , Flight into China ); Typescript carbon of play in 4 scenes, 107 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 39 Folder: 157.4
Plum Blossoms (Other titles: Peony , Flight into China ); Original container folder for typescript carbon (157.3 II).
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.5
Preface to book; Typescript and three typescript carbons of book preface, 3 pp., few handwritten corrections
1953
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9.4
Press Releases and Interviews; Statement Telegraphed to N.Y. Times and Herald Tribune--original holograph press release, 3 pp.
1942
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9.4
Press Releases and Interviews; "War Obsolete"--original holograph press release, 1 pp.
1949
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9.4
Press Releases and Interviews; CBS Radio Interview on China--original holograph, 6 pp.
1943
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9.4
Press Releases and Interviews; Notes from Speeches Heard--original holograph, 1 pp.
1942
Mixed Materials Box: 70 Folder: 279.4
Questions and Answers; Typescript of questions and answers
24 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.29
Radio Broadcasts; Introduction to the United States, Opening Session P.E.N. Writer's Congress--typescripts of radio broadcasts, revised and unrevised versions, 8 pp.
1939
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.29
Radio Broadcasts; Town Hall of the Air--typescripts and typescript carbon of radio broadcast, 6 pp., moderate handwritten corrections
1939
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 25.9
Randolph-Macon Alumni Magazine Article; Original holograph article, 1 p., and typescript copy, 1 p.
Mixed Materials Box: 70 Folder: 280.2
Randolph-Macon Speech; Holograph of speech, 6 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.21
Resume of Lou Shaw novel Yellow Storm ; Typescript and typescript carbon, 4 pp.
1951
Mixed Materials Box: 40 Folder: 162.2
Review of Perry Burjes's "Who Walk Alone"; Holograph of review, 5 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9.2
Reviews; "The Geography of Hunger"--original typescript review, 3 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9.2
Reviews; "As a Reader Sees It" (Hawaii)--original holograph review, 2 pp.
1947
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9.2
Reviews; "As One Reader Sees It" (Hawaii)--original holograph review, 5 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9.2
Reviews; "East and West"--original holograph review, 8 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 258.9
Save the Children; Typescript carbon of speech for Save the Children Association, 6 pp.
1943
Mixed Materials Box: 50 Folder: 196.8
Shortwave Radio Broadcast Typescripts; "What is America?"--typescript of shortwave radio broadcast to China. Part of the East and West Program, "America Speaks to China" (one typescript, 9 pp., and one carbon typescript, 11 pp.), many handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 50 Folder: 196.8
Shortwave Radio Broadcast Typescripts; "America Looks at Tomorrow"--typescript of shortwave radio broadcast to China. Part of the East and West Program, "America Speaks to China" (one typescript, 10 pp., and one carbon typescript, 13 pp.), many handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.15
Six Book Reviews by Pearl S. Buck; Typescripts of book reviews
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.28
Six radio broadcast scripts; Typescripts and typescript carbons
1935-1939
Mixed Materials Box: 50 Folder: 198.2
Some Problems Missionaries Face Today; Holograph of speech, 10 pp., few handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 66 Folder: 271.9
Speech; Holograph, 12 pp., moderate handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 40 Folder: 162.3
Speech about Women? ; Holograph, possibly of a speech about women, 3 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 265.8
Speech and Article; "To Japanese-Americans"--typescript of speech, 6 pp., many corrections, some handwritten
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 265.8
Speech and Article; "Italy's Surrender"--typescript of article, 11 pp., many handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 50 Folder: 198.1
Speech at Town Hall, Los Angeles; Holograph of speech, 35 pp., moderate handwritten corrections.
1943
Mixed Materials Box: 66 Folder: 271.1
Speech delivered in Chicago, 1950; Holograph, 13 pp., many handwritten corrections
1950
Mixed Materials Box: 70 Folder: 280.8
Speech on China - Industrial Cooperatives; Holograph, 7 pp., moderate corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 70 Folder: 280.7
Speech to Women About War; Holograph, 3 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9.1
Speeches; Celebration of China's National Independence--original holograph speech, 5 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9.1
Speeches; Christening of a Ship, SS Thomas H. Gallaudet, Los Angeles, California, Oct. 21, 1943--original holograph speech, 2 pp.
1943
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9.1
Speeches; Observance of M. Gandhi's Birthday--original holograph speech, 7 pp.
1948
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9.1
Speeches; Honoring M. Gandhi's Death, Feb. 7, 1948--original holograph speech, 2 pp.
1948
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9.1
Speeches; "Conflict and Cooperation Across the Pacific Today"--original typescript speech, 13 pp. (includes 1 p. handwritten), with attached typescript letter
1935
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.23
Statement on Pavilion of Women ; Typescript carbons (3 copies), 2 pp., few handwritten corrections
1951
Mixed Materials Box: 40 Folder: 162.1
Synopsis of a play ; Holograph of untitled or unknown play synopsis, 21 pp., moderate corrections (possibly related to plays The Crystal Heart , Flight into China , or Plum Blossom )
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.17
The Big Wave , Radio Play; Typescript of radio play script, 12 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 50.2
The Coiled Serpent ; Typescript carbon play, corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 254.6
The Good Earth introductory materials with reference to earlier work, East Wind, West Wind ; Typescript carbon, 14 pp.
1949
Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 94.1-94.4
The Great House ; Four typescript carbons of a play
Mixed Materials Box: 49 Folder: 190.1-190.2
The Real Thing ; Mixed manuscript of novel or novella, 256 pp. (typescript), many handwritten corrections by PSB. Inserts: 14 pp. holograph
Mixed Materials Box: 49 Folder: 193
The Real Thing ; Typescript carbon of novel or novella, 337 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 50 Folder: 194.1-194.2
The Real Thing ; Typescript of novel or novella, 337 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 25.7
Time to Change (untitled); Original holograph article, 5 pp., hand corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 63 Folder: 258.1
"Two untitled rough drafts of speeches on adoption"; Two typescripts of speech rough drafts, 4 pp., 8 pp., many handwritten corrections and revisions
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.2
Unidentified rough draft pages (incomplete); Typescript and typescript carbon
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4.2
Untitled Article; Original holograph, 5 pp. (for The Woman's Press )
ca. 1934
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.11
Untitled Article; Typescript carbon of article, 3 pp., few handwritten corrections
1952
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 264.8
Untitled article about leaving China; Typescript of article, 8 pp., moderate handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 264.9
Untitled article, excerpt of West Virginia Book; Typescript carbon, 46 pp., moderate handwritten corrections, pages 71-117 of the West Virginia Book
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 265.11
Untitled on India's Independence; Mixed manuscript of article, approximately 12 pp., many handwritten inserts and corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 64 Folder: 265.13 - 265.14
Untitled on Pearl Buck's return to America, possibly a foreword; Typescript and two typescript carbons of article, 46 pp., 48 pp., many handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 66 Folder: 268
Untitled play, incomplete; Mixed manuscript of play/drama (incomplete), many handwritten corrections and inserts
Mixed Materials Box: 70 Folder: 279.8
Untitled Play, unfinished; Holograph, 15 pp., moderate corrections.
Mixed Materials Box: 51 Folder: 202
Untitled Radio Broadcast in Chinese; Mixed manuscript, 22 pp., radio broadcast written in Chinese by PSB, with typescript romanizations. Inserts: translation, 2 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2.1
Untitled Short Story; Original holograph, 8 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 58 Folder: 231.4
Untitled speech on behalf of American Bureau for Medical Aid to China; Holograph of speech, 9 pp., many corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.26
Various Forewords and Statements; Letter on Adoption published in New York Times
1955
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.26
Various Forewords and Statements; Introduction to Mrs. Max Murray's Book--typescript and typescript carbon, 1 p.
1955
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.26
Various Forewords and Statements; Letter to Women of Japan--typescript carbons, 1 p.
1955
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.26
Various Forewords and Statements; Foreword for Founder's Book for Hatboro Library--typescript carbon, 1 p.
1955
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.26
Various Forewords and Statements; "A Thought for Christmas"--typescript and three typescript carbons of article, 5 pp., few handwritten corrections
1955
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.25
Various Statements; Broadcast to France--typescript, 2 pp.
1951
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.25
Various Statements; Statement given to MGM by telephone--typescript and typescript carbon, 1 p.
1951
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.25
Various Statements; Message for Association for Help of Retarded Children--two typescripts and two typescript carbons of letter, 1 p.
1951
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.27
Various Statements; Message to Children's Library in India--typescript carbons, 1 p.
1953
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.27
Various Statements; Women's Week Message Japan--typescript carbons, 2 pp.
1953
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.27
Various Statements; Message to Chicago Council on Foreign Relations--typescript and typescript carbon, 1 p.
1953
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.22
Various Statements and Messages; Biographical Sketch--typescript and typescript carbon, 2 pp., few handwritten corrections
1951
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.22
Various Statements and Messages; Statement on American Civil Liberties--typescript and two typescript carbons, 1 p.
1951
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.22
Various Statements and Messages; Message to Johannesburg on Behalf of Woodside Sanctuary--typescript and typescript carbon, 2 pp.
1951
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.22
Various Statements and Messages; Statement on China--typescript carbons (2 copies), 1 p.
1951
Mixed Materials Box: 70 Folder: 279.7
Various Works; "All Men Are Brothers" brochure advertising Pearl Buck's translation
Mixed Materials Box: 70 Folder: 279.7
Various Works; Typescript carbon of to Dr. Walter Jacobs of the Vineland Training School, 1 p.
1949
Mixed Materials Box: 70 Folder: 279.7
Various Works; Unidentified typescript, possibly of a portion of How It Happens , 5 pp., many handwritten corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 70 Folder: 279.7
Various Works; "If the Sun Rises"--holograph, 1 p.
Mixed Materials Box: 70 Folder: 279.7
Various Works; Unidentified typescript, possibly a portion of Dragon Seed , 7 pp., many handwritten corrections. Also includes 1 p. of lecture at end.
1942
Mixed Materials Box: 70 Folder: 279.7
Various Works; Unidentified holograph, possibly a portion of Dragon Seed , 1 p.
1939
Mixed Materials Box: 70 Folder: 279.7
Various Works; "Free China Gets to Work"--typescript, 9 pp., many handwritten corrections. Inserts: handwritten note attached, 1 p.
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.18
Vineland Training School brochure and an article about women; Typescripts of brochure text and typescript carbon of article about women. Insert: handwritten note. Brochure 17 pp., article 2 pp.
1948
Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 56.4
Voices in the House ; Second typescript carbon of TV play in three acts
Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 56.5
Voices in the House ; Fourth typescript carbon of TV play in three acts
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.4
Welcome House Material; Welcome House letter--typescript carbon of letter; 5 pp., few handwritten corrections
1951
Mixed Materials Box: 65 Folder: 266.4
Welcome House Material; Welcome House article: "Rhoda and Mike"--typescript carbon of article, 6 pp., few handwritten corrections
1953
Mixed Materials Box: 57 Folder: 225
West Virginia Book; Typescript carbon of book (non-fiction work?), 131 pp., few corrections
Mixed Materials Box: 49 Folder: 189.3
Wheat and Soldiers Book Review; Holograph of book review for written for publication in New Republic , 7 pp., moderate corrections by PSB
1939

Series 7. Miscellaneous

ca. 1960-2014

Scope and Contents

Includes exhibit materials, typescripts, clippings, correspondence, ephemera, printed material, photographs, and other material. Subjects include the appraisal and cataloging of collection materials by Frances and Kenneth Swope, Mary Lee Welliver, and Robert Shafer; the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation and preservation of Buck's birthplace in Hillsboro, WV; celebratory centennial events in 1992; Pearl S. Buck; and her works. The majority of the contents of this series was created by people other than Buck, though it includes a few facsimiles and printed versions of Buck's work.

Highlights include:

typescripts written about Buck by Lucille S. Zinn, bibliographer for the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation (box 72, folder 302.1-302.2), who went on to publish "The Works of Pearl S. Buck: A Bibliography" (box 73, folder 305.1);

records regarding the Pearl S. Buck commemorative stamp (various folders in boxes 73-76); and

a cassette tape of an interview with Pearl S. Buck conducted by Arnold Gingrich, October 12, 1970 (box 76, folder 365).

Biographical material on Buck can be found in box 73, folder 320; box 74, folders 323 and 338; box 75, folder 349; and others.

Although now substantially superseded by the current cataloging record in terms of both completeness and detail, the Mary Lee Welliver collection guide, within her graduate thesis, has been retained in this collection for future reference (see box 71, folder 284). Within her guide, Welliver cataloged the drafts of published books within the collection (series 1-5). Within these series, she lists the works alphabetically, and the drafts of each work in rough chronological order. (A version of our contents list in this cataloging record, found below, arranged in the same order as the contents list in Welliver's thesis, is available in box 71, folder 284.) Regarding the chronological order in her guide, Welliver notes that, "In a few cases, the order has been very difficult to ascertain without a more critical study of the manuscripts. This study is left to future researchers and an 'educated guess' has been made as to chronology in such cases" (Welliver thesis, p. 21).

Welliver also created data sheets for each work she cataloged, which are available in box 71, folders 293.1-293.4, and box 72, folders 294.1- 294.2. These data sheets include information not recorded in either the contents list found in this cataloging record, or in the Welliver thesis, such as type and size of paper and notations from original envelopes or folders.

Boxes 83-86 include the original container envelopes for most of the collection; the notations on these envelopes regarding specifics about their contents, such as page numbers, may be of interest to future researchers. Not all of this information is present in the contents list.

Mixed Materials Box: 75 Folder: 352
"Pearl Buck and the Christian Missionary in China"; Speech for United Methodist Women about Pearl Buck
1993
Mixed Materials Box: 72 Folder: 296.3
"Pearl Buck's Sister" by Lucille S. Zinn; Typescript of article about Grace Sydenstricker Yaukey
Mixed Materials Box: 74 Folder: 336
"To China with Love: The Pearl Buck Story," by Lucille Zinn; Magazine article about Pearl Buck in Wonderful West Virginia , June 1983 (3 copies)
1983
Mixed Materials Box: 76 Folder: 363
2014 West Virginia University Libraries Christmas card; Card sent to library employees; features PSB's Book of Christmas and an announcement about the collaboration agreement
2014
Mixed Materials Box: 76 Folder: 356
Administration and clippings; Programs, promotional information, correspondence, clippings, other materials related to Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation events and activities
Mixed Materials Box: 71 Folder: 286.3
Appraiser's List; Typescript contents list of collection, includes a handwritten note by Frances Swope.
Mixed Materials Box: 74 Folder: 329
Articles about China; Miscellaneous articles about China, Chinese culture
ca. 1980s-1990s
Mixed Materials Box: 73 Folder: 313
Articles on China by Pearl S. Buck and Others; Facsimiles of articles, including "What I Learned from Chinese Women," "Beauty in China," "The Chinese Student Mind," "The Mother," "Communism in China," "The Emotional Nature of the Chinese," "Understanding the Chinese," "China is Different," and "My Mother's House"
Mixed Materials Box: 73 Folder: 312
Between Two Worlds by Jean Battlo; Ephemera, clippings, other items related to Battlo's play, Between Two Worlds . Also includes overview of PSB writings by Mary Lee Welliver.
Mixed Materials Box: 74 Folder: 324
Birthplace Museum dedication programs; Printed material, two programs from dedication of PSB Birthplace Museum
1974
Mixed Materials Box: 72 Folder: 296.2
Book Lists; Book lists of books needed to complete library sets at PSB birthplace
1985-1987
Mixed Materials Box: 72 Folder: 301
Book Lists; Lists of PSB books in print, published works by year, original publication dates, letter about books owned by the PSB Birthplace Foundation, foreign language editions, book sale listings, donations to PSB Birthplace Foundation library
Mixed Materials Box: 75 Folder: 339
Chinese Playing Cards Deck; "Characters in Water Margin" playing cards from Shanghai, China
Mixed Materials Box: 74 Folder: 326
Clippings; Newspaper clippings about PSB, Hillsboro (includes print), museum, Birthplace Foundation, Jim Comstock
ca. 1970-1995
Mixed Materials Box: 75 Folder: 345
Clippings; Clippings about Pearl S. Buck, stamp, birthplace foundation, events
ca. 1960s-1980s
Mixed Materials Box: 75 Folder: 347
Clippings; Newspaper clippings about PSB, Birthplace Foundation, books
ca. 1970s-1980s
Mixed Materials Box: 75 Folder: 348
Clippings; Newspaper clippings about PSB, Birthplace Foundation, speech contest, stamp
ca. 1970s-1980s
Mixed Materials Box: 75 Folder: 353
Clippings; Clippings about PSB birthplace, memory and events, Welliver and Zinn's work on collection, PSB obituary
1976-1990
Mixed Materials Box: 75 Folder: 340
Clippings about Pearl Buck; Newspaper and magazine clippings and articles about Pearl Buck
ca. 1970-1990
Mixed Materials Box: 74 Folder: 327
Correspondence; Letters of Mary Lee Welliver, Lucille Zinn, Birthplace Foundation
1980s-1990s
Mixed Materials Box: 75 Folder: 342
Correspondence and clippings; Correspondence of Lucille Zinn related to Pearl S. Buck, including requests for information, commemorative stamp proposal; also includes clippings and senate hearing minutes about stamp
ca. 1970s-1980s
Mixed Materials Box: 72 Folder: 298.5
Correspondence with National Women's Hall of Fame; Letters about obtaining photos for exhibits
1983
Mixed Materials Box: 72 Folder: 294.1- 294.2
Data Sheets, Welliver and Shafer; Data sheets compiled by Mary Welliver and Robert Shafer
Mixed Materials Box: 73 Folder: 309
Dissertation on Pearl S. Buck by Betsy Sayre, Beckley College Professor; Items related to Pearl Buck 1992 Centennial and Pearl Buck Forum, including application for fellowship to study Pearl S. Buck, newspaper clippings about Sayre's anthology, "Dragon Dialogue: Beckley College Students and Pearl Buck," speech from 50th anniversary of Pearl Buck's Nobel prize
1988-1992
Mixed Materials Box: 84 Folder: loose
Envelope Folders, 101-190; Original envelope folders, folders, and other containers that contain notations, writing, PSB signatures, and other information.
Mixed Materials Box: 83 Folder: loose
Envelope Folders, 1-100; Original envelope folders, folders, and other containers that contain notations, writing, PSB signatures, and other information.
Mixed Materials Box: 85 Folder: loose
Envelope Folders, 191-282; Original envelope folders, folders, and other containers that contain notations, writing, PSB signatures, and other information.
Mixed Materials Box: 76 Folder: 368
Event Program; Facsimile program for Centennial Dinner Honoring West Virginia's Novelists, Poets, and Playwrights, at with PSB spoke
1963
Mixed Materials Box: 72 Folder: 298.6
Exhibit materials; Photos (facsimiles) and exhibit labels
Mixed Materials Box: 71 Folder: 292
Exhibit placards; Exhibit placards containing biographical information on PSB
Mixed Materials Box: 86 Folder: loose
Folders, 283-367; Original folders, and other containers that contain notations, writing, and other information. These folders are related to the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation, West Virginia Wesleyan library, manuscript exhibits and manuscript collection.
Mixed Materials Box: 75 Folder: 349
Genealogy and Biography; Typescript containing genealogy and family history of Pearl Buck's family, biographical information
Mixed Materials Box: 72 Folder: 299
Grace Sydenstricker Yaukey; Correspondence, photos (facsimiles) and other items related to PSB's sister, Grace Sydenstricker
Mixed Materials Box: 75 Folder: 355
Images and Items related to Pearl S. Buck Birthplace; Photos and postcards of birthplace, brochure about addition of Sydenstricker house
Mixed Materials Box: 76 Folder: 365
Interview with Pearl S. Buck; Cassette tape; interview with Pearl S. Buck conducted by Arnold Gingrich, October 12, 1970
1970
Mixed Materials Box: 71 Folder: 286.4
Inventory - Cross checked by Kenneth and Frances Swope; Typescript contents list in envelope number order, with handwritten notes
1975
Mixed Materials Box: 71 Folder: 286.1
Inventory of Manuscripts; Handwritten and typescript contents listings of collection, contains many notations and comments
Mixed Materials Box: 73 Folder: 314
Jim Comstock Collection clippings; Clippings and articles about Jim Comstock collection and Pearl Buck materials in Elkins, West Virginia
ca. 1990-1992
Mixed Materials Box: 72 Folder: 300
List of short stories; List and inventory of short stories in collection
Mixed Materials Box: 72 Folder: 302.1
Lucille S. Zinn personal file -- "Pearl S. Buck: Eighty Years of Living in Capsule Form"; Original typescript of article written by Lucille S. Zinn after extensive reading of PSB books and books and articles about PSB.
Mixed Materials Box: 72 Folder: 302.2
Lucille S. Zinn personal file -- "Pearl S. Buck: Eighty Years of Living in Capsule Form"; Typescript carbon of article written by Lucille S. Zinn after extensive reading of PSB books and books and articles about PSB.
Mixed Materials Box: 73 Folder: 305.1
Lucille S. Zinn personal file -- "The Works of Pearl S. Buck: A Bibliography"; Typescript carbon, publication of bibliography written by Zinn
1979
Mixed Materials Box: 73 Folder: 305.2
Lucille S. Zinn personal file -- "The Works of Pearl S. Buck: A Bibliography" newspaper clippings; Newspaper clippings about Zinn's bibliography
1978-1979
Mixed Materials Box: 72 Folder: 303
Lucille S. Zinn personal file -- A Synopsis of the Pearl S. Buck Books; Typescript, summaries of PSB works, including books, juvenile/children's literature, short stories, and others
Mixed Materials Box: 72 Folder: 304
Lucille S. Zinn personal file -- A Synopsis of the Pearl S. Buck Books; Typescript carbon, summaries of PSB works, including books, juvenile/children's literature, short stories, and others; newspaper article about PSB's pseudonym
Mixed Materials Box: 73 Folder: 307
Lucille S. Zinn personal file -- Green Hills Farm tour; Typescript of tour for Green Hills Farm, Pearl S. Buck Foundation, Inc., Perkasie, Pennsylvania. Transcribed from a tape made by PSB. Also includes newspaper clipping about preservation of Buck home
1972, 1985
Mixed Materials Box: 73 Folder: 306
Lucille S. Zinn personal file -- newspaper clippings about Mrs. Hoylman; Newspaper clippings about Mrs. George T. (Alta) Hoylman, president of PSB Birthplace Foundation
1974-1979
Mixed Materials Box: 73 Folder: 308
Lucille S. Zinn personal file -- Random Notes; Zinn's notes about PSB, including articles written about Buck
Mixed Materials Box: 71 Folder: 287
Manuscript and book lists; information about processing of collection; List of alternate titles, abbreviations used in original contents list, original publishers, correspondence related to using collection at WV Wesleyan, notes and information about processing of collection, copy of bill of sale, and many blank forms.
Mixed Materials Box: 72 Folder: 297
Manuscript Collection; Items related to library and manuscript collection, including book acquisitions, reports on added books, missing books, and other items
ca. 1988-1992
Mixed Materials Box: 72 Folder: 298.4
Manuscripts - Wesleyan Display; Clippings and other items related to first display of PSB collection at Wesleyan
1979
Mixed Materials Box: 72 Folder: 298.3
Manuscripts - Wesleyan Display - South Charleston Public Library; Letter about display at library
1982
Mixed Materials Box: 72 Folder: 298.2
Manuscripts - Wesleyan Display - West Virginia Capitol Rotunda; Clippings, correspondence and other items related to display at the capitol
1982
Mixed Materials Box: 72 Folder: 298.1
Manuscripts - Wesleyan Display - Women's Hall of Fame; Clippings, programs, other items related to display at Women's Hall of Fame
1979
Mixed Materials Box: 71 Folder: 289
Manuscripts and Displays; Facsimile newspaper clippings, correspondence, other items related to the acquisition and display of PSB manuscript collection items
1974-1982
Mixed Materials Box: 74 Folder: 321
Mary Lee Welliver correspondence and other items; Letters about PBS Birthplace Foundation, Welliver items, manuscript exhibit listing
1978
Mixed Materials Box: 76 Folder: 358
Miscellaneous clippings, articles, and items; Pearl S. Buck Centennial Symposium item, interview with Pearl Buck published in Business/Communications December 1965, commemorative stamps, clippings about stamp
1965-1983
Mixed Materials Box: 73 Folder: 318
Miscellaneous correspondence; Correspondence, letters related to matters of Pearl S. Buck's memory, works, and the Birthplace Foundation. Also includes some clippings and other items.
ca. 1985-1995
Mixed Materials Box: 71 Folder: 285
Miscellaneous Manuscripts, Catalogued by Mary Lee Welliver (p. 1-7) and Robert Shafer (p. 8-16); Typescript of contents listing, much of which is not present in Welliver's thesis (corresponds to handwritten material in box 73, folder 316)
Mixed Materials Box: 74 Folder: 331
Miscellaneous materials; Zinn correspondence, other materials and notes, clippings, some articles by PSB, commemorative stamp correspondence
ca. 1970-1995
Mixed Materials Box: 74 Folder: 330
Miscellaneous materials about Birthplace Foundation and manuscript collection; Birthplace Foundation promotional materials, printed materials and ephemera, program from manuscript acceptance ceremony at West Virginia Wesleyan College, miscellaneous articles and clippings
ca. 1970s-1990s
Mixed Materials Box: 75 Folder: 351
Miscellaneous PSB related items; Fact sheet on PSB family, commemorative stamps, newspaper clippings, Grace Sydenstricker Yaukey obituary
1983-1996
Mixed Materials Box: 71 Folder: 290
Newspaper Clippings; Newspaper clippings about PBS manuscript collection, researchers and research utilizing collection
ca. 1990s
Mixed Materials Box: 75 Folder: 350
Notebook; Notes about PSB and her works
Mixed Materials Box: 74 Folder: 325
Notecards Featuring Pearl S. Buck and Green Hills House; Blank notecards with photos of PSB as a girl and Green Hills house in Pennsylvania
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 73 Folder: 319
Our Life and Work in China , A private account by Reverend Absalom Sydenstricker; Printed material by Pearl S. Buck's father, other information related to Sydenstricker and Buck families
1978
Mixed Materials Box: 75 Folder: 343
Pearl Buck stories and articles; Articles and stories written by Pearl Buck; some are originals from magazines and journals, others are facsimiles
Mixed Materials Box: 74 Folder: 322
Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation materials; PSB Birthplace Foundation history, Welliver and Zinn items and letters, panel discussions, book acquisitions, birthday celebration
ca. 1970s
Mixed Materials Box: 74 Folder: 323
Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation miscellaneous materials; Ephemera, clippings, articles; lists of books for birthplace library, postcards of Green Hills house, articles and biographical information about PSB, correspondence related to PSB postage stamp, other items
ca. 1970s
Mixed Materials Box: 74 Folder: 337
Pearl S. Buck bookplate; Signed bookplate featuring Chinese characters and West Virginia motif. Chinese characters read "Good Earth."
Mixed Materials Box: 71 Folder: 286.2
Pearl S. Buck Books: Lists and Contents of Several Books; Typescript lists of books
Mixed Materials Box: 73 Folder: 315
Pearl S. Buck Centennial Celebration; Printed materials, ephemera, and correspondence related to the Pearl Buck Centennial, including stamp and rose; Insight , publication of Pearl S. Buck Foundation, Volume 23, no. 2 Summer 1992
1992
Mixed Materials Box: 73 Folder: 317
Pearl S. Buck Centennial Symposium and other events; Printed materials, ephemera, invitations, clippings and other items related to centennial events by Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Pearl S. Buck Foundation, and other organizations. 1 item moved to oversized.
1992
Mixed Materials Box: 74 Folder: 335
Pearl S. Buck Commemorative Stamp; Official cancellation, commemorative stamps, invitation to stamp dedication, commemorative items, newspaper clippings
1983
Mixed Materials Box: 74 Folder: 332
Pearl S. Buck Commemorative Stamp and Cancellation; Official cancellation and stamp items from first day of issue
1983
Mixed Materials Box: 74 Folder: 338
Pearl S. Buck Items; Postcard, papers with Chinese characters, brochure for birthplace, The Good Earth movie program, "Biographical Sketch of Pearl S. Buck"
Mixed Materials Box: 72 Folder: 296.1
Pearl S. Buck Library - Book Lists; Lists of PSB books; list of books needed to complete library sets at PSB Birthplace
Mixed Materials Box: 71 Folder: 283
Pearl S. Buck Manuscript Exhibit; Items related to exhibit/display
Mixed Materials Box: 73 Folder: 316
Pearl S. Buck's Manuscripts: A Harvest of Half A Century by Mary Lee Welliver; Typescript and handwritten notes corresponding to material in box 71, folder 285; copy of Welliver thesis presented to Lucille S. Zinn
1977
Mixed Materials Box: 71 Folder: 284
Pearl S. Buck's Manuscripts: The Harvest of Half a Century , A Catalog of Book Manuscripts belonging to the Pearl S. Buck Foundation Collection, Hillsboro, W. Va. By Mary Lee Welliver; Typescript of thesis, 69 pp.
1977
Mixed Materials Box: 75 Folder: 354
Photographs of The Good Earth movie adaptation; Ten photographs of movie scenes
Mixed Materials Box: 74 Folder: 328
Printed material and ephemera; Items related to programs about PSB, awards, clippings and articles
ca. 1990s
Mixed Materials Box: 75 Folder: 341
Published stories of Pearl Buck; Stories written by Pearl Buck published or excerpted in magazines: "Secrets of the Heart" and "Melissa"
1960-1976
Mixed Materials Box: 76 Folder: 367
The Long Love book jacket; Book jacket from The Long Love by John Sedges (pseudonym of PSB)
Mixed Materials Box: 74 Folder: 334
The Stubborn Earth , by Randall E. Stross; Facsimile of a portion of book about Chinese soil
Mixed Materials Box: 73 Folder: 311
The Tao of Pearl Buck - Betsy Sayre; Clippings, articles, papers about Pearl S. Buck
Mixed Materials Box: 73 Folder: 320
Three Booklets on Pearl S. Buck; Printed material, A Biographical Sketch of Pearl S. Buck , Pearl S. Buck Birthplace , and The Stulting Family: Dutch Ancestors of Pearl Buck
1974, 1990
Mixed Materials Box: 76 Folder: 366
Two Radio Broadcasts; Typescripts of two radio broadcasts of PSB. Translated spring 1990 by visiting professor Zhang Meng.
Mixed Materials Box: 76 Folder: 357
Welliver contents lists and thesis; Miscellaneous manuscripts contents list and a portion of Welliver's thesis on PSB manuscript collection
1977
Mixed Materials Box: 71 Folder: 293.1-293.4
Welliver Data Sheets; Mary Welliver's data sheets used to compile thesis contents listing
1977
Mixed Materials Box: 75 Folder: 344
Welliver Speech about Pearl S. Buck; Mary Lee Welliver speech about Pearl S. Buck delivered to Woman's Club
1992
Mixed Materials Box: 76 Folder: 364
West Virginia Book card featuring PSB Birthplace home; Card featuring birthplace home; given out to those interested in purchasing West Virginia Book (Jim Comstock's proposed West Virginia encyclopedia)
1969
Mixed Materials Box: 76 Folder: 369
WV File, Pearl S. Buck; most likely materials from West Virginia Wesleyan's vertical file of famous West Virginians and famous Americans, includes manuscripts acceptance ceremony programs, biographical sketches of Buck, clippings about Buck, etc.
1963-1992

Series 8. Oversized

ca. 1930-1995

Scope and Contents

Includes galleys and galley proofs from Series 1, Novels; Series 2, Non-fiction; and Series 3, Children's Books. Also includes a magazine clipping from Series 5, Collections of Short Stories; published short stories from Series 6, Other Works; and various clippings regarding the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation, her home, and other topics. Noteworthy are the paged galleys of Buck's first novel, East Wind, West Wind (box 77b, folder 1 and 2).

Mixed Materials Box: 81 Folder: 2
"Incident at Wang's Corner"; Published short story, from Pittsburgh Press 's "This Week Magazine." Moved from box 61, folder 244.1 I
1947
Mixed Materials Box: 81 Folder: 3
"The Unwritten Rules"; Published short story in Collier's . Moved from box 62, folder 247.2 II.
1953
Mixed Materials Box: 81 Folder: 6
Clippings; Newspaper clippings related to Pearl S. Buck, Birthplace Foundation and Home, adoption, commemorative stamp, events honoring Buck and her memory, manuscripts. Moved from box 74
ca. 1970-1995
Mixed Materials Box: 82 Folder: 1
Clippings; Newspaper clippings related to Pearl S. Buck, birthplace and Sydenstricker home, commemorative stamp. Moved from box 75.
ca. 1978-1992
Mixed Materials Box: 82 Folder: 2
Clippings; Newspaper clippings related to Pearl S. Buck, Birthplace Foundation and Home, adoption, commemorative stamp, events honoring Buck and her memory, manuscripts. Mainly from West Virginia Hillbilly . Moved from box 74.
ca. 1970-1995
Mixed Materials Box: 82 Folder: 3
Clippings; Newspaper clippings related to Pearl S. Buck, birthplace, events, biography. Moved from box 75.
ca. 1975-1990
Mixed Materials Box: 82 Folder: 4
Clippings; Newspaper clippings related to Pearl S. Buck manuscripts, research. Moved from box 76.
1983-1992
Mixed Materials Box: 81 Folder: 4
Clippings; Newspaper clippings. Moved from various locations, original location is noted on each item.
1985-1992
Mixed Materials Box: 77a Folder: 3
Death in the Castle , New York: John Day, 1965.; Unpaged galleys, 85 galley pp., few corrections. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: Author's handwritten note, 1 p.; first page of book (printed); layout for title page. Moved from box 14, folder 64.3 II.
Mixed Materials Box: 77a Folder: 4
Death in the Castle , New York: John Day, 1965.; Paged galleys, 248 pp. Moved from box 14, folder 64.4 III.
Mixed Materials Box: 77b Folder: 1
East Wind, West Wind , New York: John Day, 1930.; Paged galleys, 277 pp., few corrections. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: Preliminary pages & layouts (original), 5 pp.; preliminary pages (printed), 5 pp. Moved from box 17, folder 81.1 I.
Mixed Materials Box: 77b Folder: 2
East Wind, West Wind , New York: John Day, 1930.; Paged galleys, 251 pp., few corrections, Book-of-the-Month edition only. Moved from box 17, folder 81.2 II.
Mixed Materials Box: 81 Folder: 1
Far and Near , New York: John Day, 1947: "The Perfect Wife" ( Passing Show , 11/30/35) (Other title: "The Pleasant Vampire"); Magazine clipping, 5 pp., contains publisher's notations. Moved from box 41, folder 167.
1935
Mixed Materials Box: 77b Folder: 3
For Spacious Skies (written with Theodore F. Harris) New York: John Day, 1966 (Other titles: From Sea to Shining Sea , A Portrait in Dialogue , Dialogues .); Unpaged galleys, 79 galley pp., few corrections. Moved from box 18, folder 85.3 II.
Mixed Materials Box: 78a Folder: 1
For Spacious Skies (written with Theodore F. Harris) New York: John Day, 1966 (Other titles: From Sea to Shining Sea , A Portrait in Dialogue , Dialogues .); Paged galleys, 221 pp., few corrections. Additional Miscellaneous Pages: 2 pp. Moved from box 19, folder 89.
Mixed Materials Box: 78b Folder: 3
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John , New York: John Day, 1967.; Unpaged galleys, 21 galley pp., few corrections. Moved from box 36, folder 140.2 II.
Mixed Materials Box: 81 Folder: 5
Pearl Buck Centennial Item; Cardboard item from Pearl S. Buck Centennial Symposium. Moved from box 73, folder 317.
1992
Mixed Materials Box: 79b Folder: 3
Stories for Little Children , New York: John Day, 1940 (Other title: Dedicated to Five Children ); Unpaged galleys, 8 galley pp., few corrections. Moved from box 51, folder 201.1 I.
Mixed Materials Box: 80a Folder: 1
Stories for Little Children , New York: John Day, 1940 (Other title: Dedicated to Five Children ); Paged galleys, 48 pp. (13 galley pp.), few corrections. Moved from box 51, folder 201.2 II.
Mixed Materials Box: 77a Folder: 1
The Big Fight , New York: John Day, 1965.; Unpaged galleys, 9 galley pp., few corrections, moved from box 10, folder 44.2 II.
Mixed Materials Box: 77a Folder: 2
The Big Fight , New York: John Day, 1965.; Unpaged galleys, 6 galley pp. (Published in Boys' Life Book of Wild Animal Stories , Random House, 1965), moved from box 10, folder 44.5 V.
Mixed Materials Box: 78b Folder: 1
The Living Reed , New York: John Day, 1963.; Unpaged galleys, 190 galley pp., few corrections. Moved from box 32, folder 129.1 I.
Mixed Materials Box: 78b Folder: 2
The Living Reed , New York: John Day, 1963.; Paged galleys, 478 pp. (160 galley pp.). Moved from box 32, folder 129.2 II.
Mixed Materials Box: 78a Folder: 2
The Long Love , New York: John Day, 1949 (John Sedges, pseudonym); Paged galleys, 19 pp. (8 galley pp.) and 6 page plates of front matter. Moved from box 31, folder 126.1-126.2. See box 31, folders 126.1-126.2 for additional materials.
Mixed Materials Box: 79a Folder: 1
The New Year , New York: John Day, 1968 (Other title: Kim Christopher ); Unpaged galleys, 98 galley pp., few corrections. Moved from box 37, folder 147.1 I.
Mixed Materials Box: 79a Folder: 2
The New Year , New York: John Day, 1968 (Other title: Kim Christopher ); Paged galleys, 255 pp. Moved from box 37, folder 147.2 II.
Mixed Materials Box: 79b Folder: 1
The New Year , New York: John Day, 1968 (Other title: Kim Christopher ); Paged galleys, 255 pp., few corrections. Moved from box 37, folder 148.
Mixed Materials Box: 79b Folder: 2
The Promise , New York: John Day, 1943.; Unpaged galley, 1 galley p. Moved from box 45, folder 176.2. See box 45, folder 176.1-176.2 for additional materials.
Mixed Materials Box: 80a Folder: 2
The Time Is Noon , New York: John Day, 1967 (Other titles: Good People , American Legend or American Argument ); Unpaged galleys, 141 galley pp., few corrections (published version). Moved from box 53, folder 209.1 I.
Mixed Materials Box: 80a Folder: 3
The Time Is Noon , New York: John Day, 1967 (Other titles: Good People , American Legend ); Unpaged galleys, 121 galley pp. (unpublished version). Moved from box 53, folder 209.2 II.
1942
Mixed Materials Box: 80b Folder: 1
The Time Is Noon , New York: John Day, 1967 (Other titles: Good People , American Legend ); Paged galleys, 383 pp. (published version). Moved from box 53, folder 211
Mixed Materials Box: 80b Folder: 2
The Townsman , New York: John Day, 1945 (John Sedges, pseudonym) (Other titles: Monument in Median , Pilgrim's Pride ); Paged galleys, 394 pp., many corrections & revisions by PSB. Inserts: typed 20 pp. Moved to from box 55, folder 215.1 I. See box 55, folder 215.1 Ia-e for additional materials.