Scope and content Includes photographs taken by Elizabeth Porteus of retirement parties of Elizabeth Crosby (1976), Elizabeth Murphy (1980), Ellen Tripp (1981), and Esther Stark (1987). Most people in the photographs are identified. Also, retirement party photographs of Professor Peter Kahn, taken by Sam Demas (1984); photographs of retirement party for Giles F. Shepherd, Jr., Nov. 1974, taken by Douglass Payne; retirement party for Robert B. Slocum, May 19, 1988, taken by Lucrezia Herman; and 90th birthday...

Abstract Mostly department correspondence, largely that of Gussie Esther Gaskill, first curator of the Wason Collection (1927-1963); materials concerning trips to China and Japan; projects; bibliographies; acquisitions, cataloging, and other records; accessions list; accounting statistics, and general office files, 1976-1985; annual reports of the East Asian Librarian, 1972-1988. Correspondence relating to Charles Wason's bequest, especially correspondence between Mrs. Charles Wason and the Arthur H....