FREDERICK WELDEN FILES,, 1930-1950

Summary: Professor Welden was a Griffis Collection and Meiji Japan researcher working in the 1930s and 1940s. He was the editor of the second, 1941 edition of the Richard Henry Brunton manuscript Pioneer Engineering in Japan (1868-1876). Brunton was a chief civil engineer in the service of the Japanese government. This series includes correspondence, two copies of the above-mentioned manuscript, as well as several offprints from 1940s journals of Chinese history. It also includes several Japan-related 1940s periodicals as well as research notes for the Brunton manuscript, and Asian Studies bibliographies from the 1930s, in addition to some other notes on miscellaneous subjects.