Series 6. Other Works, 1923/2014

Scope and content:

Includes holographs, typescripts, typescript carbons, clippings, and mixed manuscripts of published and unpublished short stories, articles, dramas/plays, novels, novellas, non-fiction works, reviews, speeches, introductions, forewords, letters, press releases, radio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).

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