June Rose Garrott papers, 1960-2015

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Series I: Nien Cheng

1990-2005 loose letters and emails mostly between Nien Cheng and Garrott or regarding Nien Cheng.

Nien Cheng's memoir Life and Death in Shanghai was widely praised as one of the most riveting accounts of the Cultural Revolution

The originals have been scanned onto discs in Box 9.



Box 3 1987 letters, 1987



Box 1 1989 After 4 June (two long letters), 1989


Box 1 1989 21 October letter, 1989



Box 5 1990 19 November Envelope (with Kentucky magazine. Ruler, tourist information), 1990



Box 1 1990-2005 loose letters, and emails mostly between or regarding Nien Cheng, 1990-2005


Box 1 1999 16 February(photocopy with accompanying articles, clippings, etc.), 1999



Box 2 1990-1997



Box 5 1990-1999 (included some manuscripts about Nien Cheng), 1990-1999



Box 3 1990 letters, 1990



Box 2 1990-2009



Box 3 1991 letters, 1991



Box 5 1991-1995 letters (mostly in envelopes), 1991-1995



Box 6 1991-1998 Nien Cheng, 1991-1998



Box 1 1992 correspondence, 1992



Box 3 1993 letters, 1993



Box 1 1993 7 January letter (with clippings and 7 photographs re. political prisoners), 1993



Box 3 1994-1998 letters in envelopes, 1994-1998



Box 2 1994 letters, 1994



Box 3 1995 letters, 1995



Box 2 1996 letters, 1996



Box 5 1996-1997 (with some photographs attached), 1996-1997



Box 6 1996 8 February: June Rose Garrott to Nien Cheng: "A Funny Valentine", 1996 8 February



Box 5 1996 12 April Envelope, 1996



Box 8 1996 27 June -- 1 July Richmond, Washington, 1996



Box 3 1997 letters, 1997



Box 2 1997-2000 Photocopies, 1997-2000



Box 3 1998 letters, 1998


Box 3 1999 letters, 1999



Box 5 1995 30 December Envelope, 1995


Box 5 1999 5 December (regarding obituary of Ai-Fang Yang Lin), 1999



Box 2 2000 letters, 2000


Box 2 2001 letters, 2001



Box 1 2002 correspondence, 2002



Box 6 2002 April 26 June Rose Garrott to Nien Cheng "Goings on about Town", 2002



Box 2 2003 letters, 2003


Box 2 2004 letters, 2004



Box 5 2005 letters, 2005



Box 2 2007 letters, 2007


Box 2 2006 letters, 2006


Box 2 2008 letters, 2008


Box 2 2009 letters, 2009



Box 4 100 Garrott letters to Nien Cheng (brought back from Nien's home in Washington, DC on June 2, 1998)


Box 4 Web print outs re China, 1999-2005 (many with attached letters to Nien Cheng), 1999-2005



Box 5 Email, 12, May 2004


Box 5 Envelope containing:


Letter from Ai Fang Yang Lin, 21, August, 1990


Letter 9 August 1990 re. birth of baby to Susan and Scott Henon (with two photographs), August 1990



Box 6 Nien Cheng Lecture by June Rose Garrott



Box 7 Memorial Celebration Service for the Life of Nien Cheng



Box 8 Various photographs of Nien Cheng and June Rose Gattott


Box 8 Dry-mounted photographs of Nien Cheng and June Rose Garrott in Cheng's home in D.C.


Box 8 Photographs: Nien and June Rose Garrott: Living room


Box 8 Photographs: Nien (2)


Box 8 Photographs: 1995 Waco, 1995


Box 8 Photographs:, March 1997


Box 8 Photographs: MAFSA, Nien, May 1998


Box 8 Photographs: Nien, Christmas, 2000


Box 8 Favorite photographs that Nien Cheng and I took of each other in her home in Washington"



Box 9 VHS: PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer (Nien Cheng)