Box 1

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Memo summarizing treaties with China, 5/31/24, 3 pages; American claims against the Chinese government, 6/30/25, 9 pages; Preliminary Report of the Conference on American Relations with China, 9/20/25, 11 pages; Correspondence with John Van A. MacMurray and others.

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Correspondence with Kellogg and others, including the Chinese delegates Hsiang Che-Chun and Wang Chung Hui; Regulations and detailed rules for the liquidation of the Russo-Asiatic Bank in China, 10/26 (published in English and Chinese), 27 pages.

Scope and Contents Misc. memos on the current political situation in China; Exchange of letters and memos between Strawn (Carbons), MacMurray, and Frank B. Kellogg, Secretary of State; Report of boycott and closing of Stout Memorial Hospital, Wuchow, China, 4/5/26, 10 pages; Memo by Stanley K. Hornbeck on the Special Conference on Chinese Customs Tariff, 11/13/26, 4 pages; Draft of Recommendations by the Commission on Extra-territorial Jurisdiction in China, 8/26, 6 pages; Strawn's personal report to Kellogg...

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Outline for the conference, issues suggested, and Preliminary papers #I-VII with topics on extraterritoriality, trade and customs, foreign relations, missionaries, and diplomacy, 55 pages; Special papers by L.H. Roots and Frank B. Kellogg, 12 pages; List of people attending Conference, 9 pages; Conference on American Relations with China Bulletin, no. I-V, September 1-15, 1925, 32 pages.

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Initials SKH (Stanley K. Hornbeck) appear throughout, so he is the likely author. Outer folder marks this as Strawn's copy of the confidential report.

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Opening session held January 12, 1926; Introductory remarks - pt. I, pages 1-61; Present Practice of Extraterritoriality in China.

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Pages 62-131: The Laws and Judicial and Prison Systems of China.

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Pages 132-166: Administration of Justice in China; Recommendations.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains Silas Strawn's letters, memoranda, speeches, special reports on China, the four-part Report of the Extraterritoriality Com­mission, and Mr. Strawn's own report as chairman. The correspondence between 1924 and 1927 is all related to U.S.-China relations and includes letters and memos from Strawn; Frank B. Kellogg, Secretary of State; John Van A. MacMurray, Minister to China; Stanley K. Hornbeck; Rodney Gilbert; Judge Charles Evans Hughes, and others.

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Memorandum... on the present practice of extraterritorial jurisdiction in China, 3/23/26, 13 pages; Additional memorandum...4/26/26, 8 pages.

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The Special Conference on Chinese Customs Tariff and the Commission on Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in China, 15 pages; Interview with Russian Ambassador Karakhan, 2/15/26, 5 pages.

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Reparks at the University of China, 11/27/25, 6 pages; Reparks at the Peking University, 12/17/25, 5 pages; Address... Tsing Hua College, Peking, 1/15/26, 12 pages; Locarno: addresss... before the Peking American Women's College Club, 4/5/26, 16 pages.

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China Today: an address before the China Society of New York, n.d., 21 pages (incomplete); Address to the National Union of Students, Cambridge, 3/30/26, 6 pages; Address... Chicago Association of Commerce, 10/27/26, 12 pages; Address before the Canadian Club, Ottawa, Canada, 3/5/27, 18 pages; The American Businessman in the Far East: address before the Export Managers' Club of New York, 3/22/27, 18 pages.

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The Present Situation in China, 1/11/27, 22 pages; The Situation in China, 2/12/27, 53 pages (notecards); The Situation in China (New York, China Society, April, 1927), 23 pages.

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Memorandum on American Policy in the Far East, 20 pages; China and the Chinese, 15 pages; The Truth about China, 7 pages; A few facts about China, 13 pages.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains Silas Strawn's letters, memoranda, speeches, special reports on China, the four-part Report of the Extraterritoriality Com­mission, and Mr. Strawn's own report as chairman. The correspondence between 1924 and 1927 is all related to U.S.-China relations and includes letters and memos from Strawn; Frank B. Kellogg, Secretary of State; John Van A. MacMurray, Minister to China; Stanley K. Hornbeck; Rodney Gilbert; Judge Charles Evans Hughes, and others.

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W.E. Soothill, A History of China (London, 1927), 79 pages; H.G.W. Woodhead, Leading Statesmen of Modern China, 1925, 12 pages; International Conciliation: Diplomatic Relations between the United States and Japan, 1908-1924, June, 1925, no. 211, 219 pages; The Nation, 11/24/26, with "The Edge of China" by Louis S. Gannett, pages 526-527; The China Weekly Review: special number on Extraterritoriality, 6/19/26, 88 pages.