PERIODIALS, PAMPHLETS AND PUBLIC DOCUMENTS

Summary: The largest series in the collection, PRINTED MATERIALS joins together the bulk of printed materials collected by Griffis in his researches presently extant in loose form. (Bound volumes, books and pamphlets, may be found largely in the Rare Books collection under X-GRIF.) It comprises three subseries: PERIODICALS, PAMPHLETS AND PUBLIC DOCUMENTS; CLIPPED ARTICLES; and NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS.

The subseries PERIODICALS, PAMPHLETS AND PUBLIC DOCUMENTS is the most diverse in its contents. It includes discrete published materials saved by Griffis in their entirety, mainly issues of journals and pamphlets. Also included in this subseries are a few items produced for public distribution in non-print formats, such as mimeographed translations of speeches from the Japanese Diet, or public documents relating to the Korean Independence Movement. Items have been sorted by title, with the exception of a limited number of pamphlets, which have been grouped together in more general subject categories to facilitate access (for example the groupings "Missions in Japan" and "Missions in Korea." Excluded from this subseries are photojournals (located in GRAPHIC AND PICTORIAL MATERIALS) and periodicals in Japanese (in JAPANESE LANGUAGE MATERIALS).

NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS and CLIPPED ARTICLES are self-explanatory subseries. The Griffis Collection contains a large quantity of newspaper clippings which were separated out by earlier archivists and disposed into subject groupings: these survive intact in this subseries pending appraisal for further organization and preservation work. The researcher should be warned that there is scant order and substantial overlap among subject headings and folder contents in this subseries, reflecting the incomplete arrangement of the collection prior to this project. In particular, materials from later boxes in the old arrangement were often too miscellaneous to be given a specific subject heading other than "unsorted." CLIPPED ARTICLES contains articles clipped by Griffis from journals and magazines which have been deemed too significant to place amidst newspaper clippings: these are listed by author.