Eugene E. Barnett papers, 1905-1970
Eugene E. Barnett papers, 1905-1970
Summary Information
Abstract
At a Glance
- Call No.:
- MS#0076
- Bib ID:
- 4078928 View CLIO record
- Creator(s):
- Barnett, Eugene E.
- Repository:
- Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Physical Description:
- 47.5 linear feet (112 boxes)
- Language(s):
- English .
- Access:
- You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
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The following boxes are located off-site: Boxes 2-113. You will need to request this material from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
This collection has no restrictions.
Description
Summary
Correspondence, reports, speeches, and notes dealing with Barnett's years in pre-Communist China and in Japan, his activities as a lay leader in the Methodist Church, his many functions in the International and United States YMCA, his affiliations with several United Nations and other organizations, and his personal friends and family.
Arrangement
Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged.
Using the Collection
Restrictions on Access
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
The following boxes are located off-site: Boxes 2-113. You will need to request this material from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
This collection has no restrictions.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Eugene E. Barnett papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Ownership and Custodial History
Gift of Arthur Doak Barnett, 1975 & 1979.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Date of acquisition--1975. Accession number--M75.
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Processing Information
Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 03/31/89.
Revision Description
2009-06-26 File created.
2012-03-19 XML document instance created by Catherine C. Ricciardi
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
History
Eugene E. Barnett (1888-1970) began his work with the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) by serving as a Secretary for the University of North Carolina Student YMCA from 1908-1910, where he was enrolled as a graduate student.
In 1910, the YMCA sent Barnett to China, where he was to remain until 1937. In China, he organized the YMCA in Hangchow, and served as its General Secretary until 1921. In 1925, became the Senior Secretary for the International Committee of the YMCA in China. He served concurrently as Associate General Secretary of the China National Committee and was also a member of the National Christian Council.
In 1937, the YMCA recalled Barnett to the United States, and he became the Executive Secretary of the International Board of the YMCA. In this role, he managed the World Services Program, and was instrumental in helping the YMCA to elimiate a substantial amount of accumulated debt.
In 1941, Barnett became the General Secretary of the National Council of YMCAs. He would serve in this position until his retirement in 1953.
Subject Headings
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Series I. Cataloged Correspondence
Box 1
Series II. Cataloged Photographs
Box 1
Box 1
Series III. Chronological File, 1910-1970
(Predominantly letters to and from Barnett, but also Including some reports and speeches. The container lists includes a partial listing of the contents in the chronological Folders, arranged by year.)
1910
Box 1
Box 1
(Voyage across Pacific, first impressions of Orient, China, etc.)
1911
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
1912
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
(Manchus abdicate. Sun Ya-tsen. Yuan Shih-Kai…What's his game?)
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
1913
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
1914
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
1915
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
Box 1
1916
Box 2
Box 2
Box 2
Box 2
Box 2
1917
Box 2
Box 2
Box 2
Box 2
Box 2
Box 2
Box 2
1918
Box 2
Box 2
Box 2
Box 2
Box 2
Box 2
Box 2
Box 2
1919
Box 2
Box 2
Box 2
Box 2
Box 2
Box 2
Box 2
Box 2
Box 2
1920
Box 2
Box 2
Box 2
Box 2
Box 2
Box 2
Box 2
Box 2
Box 2
Box 2
Box 2
Box 2
1921
Box 3
Box 3
Box 3
Box 3
Box 3
Box 3
Box 3
1922
Box 3
Box 3
Box 3
Box 3
Box 3
Box 3
Box 3
Box 3
Box 3
Box 3
Box 3
Box 3
Box 3
1923
Box 3
Box 3
Box 3
Box 3
Box 3
Box 3
1924
Box 3
Box 3
Box 3
Box 3
Box 3
Box 3
Box 3
1925
Box 3
(Shooting of students in mass demonstration, Shanghai. Reports, comments, pamphlets)
Box 3
Box 3
(Articles: "New Cycle in Cathay..." by John St. Burgess; "Looking at America - in China" by Lewis Gannett; "Missionaries at Caesar's Footstool" by Rawlinson)
Box 3
Box 3
Box 3
Box 3
Box 3
1926
Box 4
Box 4
Box 4
Box 4
1927
Box 4
Box 4
Box 4
Box 4
Box 4
Box 4
Box 4
Box 4
Box 4
Box 4
Box 4
Box 4
Box 4
Box 4
Box 4
Box 4
Box 4
Box 4
Box 4
Box 4
Box 4
Box 4
1928
Box 4
Box 4
Box 4
Box 4
(Situation in China and Y)
Box 4
(Conference in Shanghai in September, 1928)
Box 4
Box 4
Box 4
Box 4
Box 4
Box 4
Box 4
Box 4
Box 4
1929
Box 5
Box 5
Box 5
Box 5
Box 5
Box 5
Box 5
Box 5
(Published by F.E. Information Bureau, Nanking. Gift of C.T. Wang)
Box 5
Box 5
Box 5
Box 5
Box 5
Box 5
Box 5
(Eugene Epperson Barnett to Bertha Smith Barnett (Mrs. Eugene Emerson Barnett), RB and Eugenia Mae Barnett in college, etc.)
1920s-1930s
Box 5
Box 5
Box 5
Box 5
1930
Box 5
Box 5
Box 5
Box 5
Box 5
Box 5
Box 5
Box 5
Box 5
Box 5
Box 5
Box 5
Box 5
Box 5
Box 5
Box 5
1931
Box 6
Box 6
Box 6
Box 6
Box 6
Box 6
Box 6
Box 6
Box 6
Box 6
1931-1932
Box 6
Box 6
Box 6
Box 6
Box 6
Box 6
Box 7
Box 7
Box 7
Box 7
1932
(Predominantly family letters)
Box 7
Box 7
Box 7
Box 7
Box 7
Box 7
1933
Box 7
Box 7
Box 7
(Topics listed on Folder)
1934
Box 8
Box 8
Box 8
Box 8
Box 8
(Including: from Henry DeWitt Barnett, ADS, Robert Warren Barnett (M.A. Chapel Hill, North Carolina - coming out to Shanghai enroute Oxford University); re: summer family reunion; Eugene Epperson Barnett to PHB - letters, etc.)
1935
Box 8
Box 8
Box 8
Box 8
Box 8
Box 8
Box 8
Box 8
(Review of work of Y in China 1835-1935)
Box 8
Box 8
(To Robert Warren Barnett (Oxford, Europe); Eugenia Mae Barnett (Peking); Henry DeWitt Barnett (Webb School, California). Subjects: Japan, Communism in China, (the) Depression, the Raven trial, R.R. Service's Illness and death, Dr, David Yui's illness, etc...)
Box 8
Box 8
Box 8
Box 8
1936
Box 8
(Subjects include: Death of Dr. David Yui; Death of Eugene Epperson Barnett's father, the Rev. Robert H. Barnett; and 1936 "Forebodings" regarding Henry DeWitt Barnett, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, New Age and Totalitarianism, Visit to Hangchow, Chinese soldiers, and the "New Deal" )
Box 8
(Including "China Goes Modern", "Supercargo" - What the West has given to China - cultural end scientific, education, medical science, athletics, Relief work, "Awakened China")
1937
Box 9
(Including: Reports on Japanese atrocities in China (Rape of Nanking - report). Relief work - Y news - Eugene Epperson Barnett visit to South America (Lima, Peru), Personal letters ... to Hollis Wilbur (mostly China Y problems). Kiang Wen-han report on visit to Japan. Letter from Mrs. Frank Rawlinson, etc. Pamphlet -New Life Movement.)
Box 9
("What the Y.M.C.A Has Contributed to the Chinese Church" - T.T. Law. Translated by T.K. Woang from article in Chinese in Truth and Life Magazine October 1935 - also pamphlet)
1938
Box 10
(In China, Hangchow captured by Japanese (December 24, 1937) - "heroic service" of "plucky foreigners" - Gene Tuwen, Vaneverer (sic), Clayton, Fairclough (CIM)…also in Nanking - George Fitch.)
Box 10
Box 10
Box 10
Box 10
Box 10
(These are filed with the 1944 material in the collection, and consist of reports via excerpts on Y work in various parts of world... projects by Hatch, Buck, etc.)
1939
Box 10
Box 10
(These are filed with the 1951 material in the collection. They consist of excerpts from Eugene Epperson Barnett letters)
1940
Box 10
Box 10
1941
Box 11
Box 11
Box 11
Box 11
Box 11
1942
Box 11
Box 11
Box 11
Box 11
Box 11
Box 11
(Letter to McMullen "children" on "Hangchow Reunion" at 203 Hartsdale Road - 1st returnees on SS Gripsholm. News of the "Macs" - Hangchow under Japanese, etc.)
Box 11
Box 11
Box 11
Box 11
Box 11
(re: news from Shanghai via first Gripsholm arrivals)
Box 11
Box 11
Box 11
Box 11
1943
Box 11
Box 11
Box 11
Box 11
Box 11
Box 11
Box 11
Box 11
Box 11
Box 11
Box 11
Box 11
Box 11
(Mostly Eugene Epperson Barnett letters to: Bertha Smith Barnett (Mrs. Eugene Emerson Barnett); Henry DeWitt Barnett; to various persons and Mrs. New re: a young Chinese fiend of hers; Robert Warren Barnett; Lillian Smith (in Clayton) February 9th - congratulations on list of Honor Roll of Race Race Relations just announced... also on recent issues ofSouth Today;to 'Aunt' Janie Uhlendorf Brown)
Box 11
Box 11
Box 11
1942-1943
Box 11
(from Chungking, Yunnan, Lanchow, Wong Kong with reports from all over China. These reports includes dates and details on places and conditions of interest)
1938-1944
Box 12
(Includes reports or excerpts on YMCA workin various parts of the word, including work of the Hatches (agriculture) in India, of Buck (physical education), etc.)
1944
Box 12
(Mostly Eugene Epperson Barnett - full of comment on national and world affairs as well as on family news (Robert Warren Barnett, Henry DeWitt Barnett - overseas; Arthur Doak Barnett; Eugenia B. Schultheis, Billy, Bobby)
Box 12
Box 12
Box 12
Box 12
Box 12
1945
Box 12
(Material pertaining to clearing of Y debt in 1945)
Box 12
Box 12
Box 12
Box 12
Box 12
(Y, Church, USO, etc.)
(includes letters to Bertha Smith Barnett (Mrs. Eugene Emerson Barnett))
Box 12
Box 12
Box 12
Box 12
Box 12
Box 12
1946
Box 13
Box 13
(Includes ofTar Heel Daily(April 14), and conferring of honorary degrees at the University of North Carolina, circa 1939)
1947
Box 13
(Includes on to Rotary Club, South Bend, Indiana, introduced by Paul Hoffman)
Box 13
Box 13
Box 13
Box 13
Box 13
Box 13
(including letter from O.R. Magill from Winling, Shanghia on Y, and letter from Doak on China situation)
Box 13
Box 13
Box 13
1948
Box 14
Box 14
Box 14
Box 14
Box 14
Box 14
Box 14
Box 14
Box 14
Box 14
Box 14
Box 14
1949
Box 14
Box 14
Box 14
(Informal notes (on Displaced Persons, Expellees, Refugees, Y in Europe, Churches, etc.) )
Box 14
Box 14
(Includes a lists of subjects)
1950
Box 15
(Mostly Eugene Epperson Barnett to Bertha Smith Barnett (Mrs. Eugene Emerson Barnett))
Box 15
1951
Box 15
(Mostly Eugene Epperson Barnett to Bertha Smith Barnett (Mrs. Eugene Emerson Barnett))
Box 15
(Excerpts from Eugene Epperson Barnett letters beginning 1939-1951on the subject)
1952
Box 16
(On visits to Rome, Athens, Turkey, including bibliographies, letters, schedules, etc.)
Box 16
(Includes letters, speeches, schedules with expenses)
Box 16
1952-1954
Box 16
(Duties, role, etc. - correspondence re: above over period of years, reports of statements, etc.)
Box 17
1953-1954
(Includes Plenary Session, International Committee, YMCA)
1955
Box 18
(Includes lists of persons seen, letter, and a confidential report )
Box 18
1954-1956
1957
Box 19
Box 20
Box 20
Box 20
Box 21
Box 21
1960
Box 22
(Condolence and Congratulations)
1959
Box 22
Box 22
Box 22
Box 22
Box 23
Box 24
1963-1966
Box 25
1963-1966
Box 26
1963-1966
Box 27
Box 28
Box 29
Series IV. Subject File
Box 30
Box 30
Box 30
1947-1950
Box 31
1951-1952
Box 31
Box 31
Box 32
Box 33
Box 33
Box 33
Box 33
Box 33
Box 33
Box 33
Box 34
Box 34
Box 34
Box 34
Box 34
Box 34
Box 35
Box 36
Box 37
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Box 39
Box 40
Box 41
Box 42
Box 43
Box 44
Box 45
Box 45
Box 45
Box 45
Box 46
Box 46
Box 46
Box 46
Box 46
Box 47
Box 48
Box 49
Box 50
Box 51
Box 51
Box 51
Box 51
Box 51
Box 52
Box 53
1910-1968
Box 54
1910-1968
Box 55
1936-1959
(Duplicates)
Box 56
Box 57
1929-1955
Box 58
1929-1955
Box 59
1929-1955
Box 60
1929-1955
Box 61
1929-1955
Box 62
Box 63
Box 63
Box 63
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Box 75
Box 76
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Box 81
Box 81
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Box 82
Box 82
Box 82
Box 82
Box 82
Box 82
Box 82
Box 82
Box 83
Box 84
Box 85
Box 86
Box 87
Series V: 1979 Addition to the Collection, 1979
Box 88
1905-1910
Box 89
1910-1916
Box 90
1917-1922
Box 91
1923-1926
Box 92
1927-1931
Box 93
1932-1953
Box 94
1954-1964
Box 95
1965-1970
Box 96
Box 96
Box 96
Box 96
Box 97
Box 98
Box 99
Box 100
Box 101
1940-1970
Box 102
1940-1970
Box 103
1940-1970
Box 104
1940-1970
Box 105
1940-1970
Box 106
Box 107
Box 108
Box 109
Box 109
Box 109
Box 110
Box 111
Box 112
Box 113
Box 113