observer american (10 Ergebnisse)

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8vo, 1 p. Typed and signed in light-blue, beneath green letterhead, and with 'CARL VAN VECHTEN' 'watermark' at centre of page. Text clear and complete. On lightly aged paper, worn and dogeared at extremities. He thanks her for the copy of 'the Academic Observer (Gertrude Stein number) which intererested me so much that I am writing to ask if I may have another copy for a friend of mine, Please.' Autograph note explains that the 'friend' is one 'who also collects Steiniana'. Docketed in pencil on reverse: 'Miss Mallory | Keep this until I call - someday I will. | [signed] M. Lucha'.

47 gelatin silver prints, various sizes: 43 x 60 to 123 x 188 mm. Some images captioned in English or Chinese on the reverse. - Further, 3 typed essays by Evans Carlson (20, 11, and 2 ff. respectively), 1 typed letter by Carlson (signed in type), and 2 typed letters signed to Carlson. Unique material relating to the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), a conflict marking the beginning of World War II in Asia, prepared by Evans Carlson, a U.S. Marine and unlikely champion of China. - Carlson spent nearly eight years in China as a military observer and marched an estimated 2,300 miles across the country with communist guerrillas. Among the most compelling photographs appear armed partisans, including guerilla forces scaling the wall to the headquarters of the famous communist revolutionary He Long (1896-1969), civilians seeking shelter in trenches, camouflaged airplanes, bombers, destroyed trucks, stations and houses, as well as doctors and nurses, including Chinese Catholic nuns attending to air raid victims in Wuhan, a truck en route to Yulin, watchtowers along the Great Wall, and road bridges in Shanghai. - The archive further comprises notable documents relating to Carlson's travels in China and his lectures on the Chinese cause and the danger of Japanese aggression, including an unpublished essay on the Industrial Cooperative Movement to re-establish Chinese industries after Japanese attacks; an essay on Carlson's opinions on Japan titled "For an enduring Peace"; and a draft for an essay on a trip to the city of Chende; along with a letter from Carlson to the White House voicing concerns of indiscretion from British ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, who allegedly alarmed Japanese officials by meeting guerrilla leaders in Beijing and seeking the President's support for the Industrial Cooperative Movement; a typed letter to Carlson from the White House signed by Private Secretary M. A. LeHand, who is pleased to learn that Carlson is staying with the Marine Corps (13 January 1939); and the confirmation of publication of an article on the Sino-Japanese War in the "Far Eastern Survey", signed by secretary Mary C. Taussig (9 May 1941). - Occasional slight marginal flaws; photographs in excellent condition. - From the collection of the descendants of Evans Carlson.

4 pp. Typed letter, signed in ink. "I have seen a new China in the making": an American military observer champions China's cause from the front lines of the Japanese invasion. Evans Carlson spent most of 1937-38 in China, travelling first with the KMT and then extensively with the communist forces of the 8th Route Army; the latter experience is the subject of this letter, written to his family back in America. Carlson was deeply affected by his time in China, and was more open about this in his personal letters than his public communications. To his family he writes: - "My sympathies become very much involved because my natural tendency is to aid the under dog. In the present situation my sympathies are of course entirely with China, as are those of all fair minded and peace loving people. [.] I am so thoroughly aroused to the righteousness of their cause and the fundamental honesty of their effort that I would cut my ties with our own civilization and throw my lot in with theirs if I was not so conscious of material and moral obligations which have developed during my past life. [] The point is that life is not worthwhile unless one is convinced that he is making a definite contribution to human progress. [] This must sound terribly immature and dramatic to you all, but it represents a phase of mind through which I am passing at present". - Carlson was also careful to express the realities of the situation: "I was less fortunate from the health standpoint for I contracted relapsing fever, dysentery and trachoma. [] The disease [i.e., trachoma] is everywhere in the interior, and I had tried to guard against it by refusing the traditional hot towel, and by carrying my own wash basin. But travelling with communists means that property cannot be kept private, and I could not very well refuse requests to use my basin when basins were at a premium. [] I mention these things not to alarm you, but to show that these travels in the interior are not the glamorous excursions which writers try to imply." - In excellent condition. - From the collected papers of Evans Carlson.