Abstract

This collection of materials was created to bring together and preserve the documentation that now exists on Hu Shih (Cornell University Class of 1914), in the Department of Manuscripts and University Archives of the Cornell University Library.

Scope and content Primarily correspondence of Cornell Librarians George William Harris, Willard Austen, and Otto Kinkeldey concerning such routine library matters as requests for information, receipts for books, donations, and other business. Also, miscellaneous correspondence of Woodford Patterson, Albert William Smith, David Fletcher Hoy, Justin Winsor, and letters to the C.U. Board of Trustees and faculty members. Some correspondence relates to the Fiske collections. ...

Scope and content Writings of Hu Shih, including copies of several versions (1911, 1962), some with handwritten corrections, of a biographical sketch of Ezra Cornell, written in Chinese in 1911 and first published in 1915; "The Philosophy of Browning and Confucianism" (21 page typescript carbon), an essay which he wrote while at Cornell and read (1915) before the Browning Society of Boston; "Intellectual Preparedness" (9 page mimeo), his address at the Union College Commencement exercises (1940); his...