- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Foster, John W. (John Watson), 1836-1917
- Title:
- Selected Papers of John W. Foster
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/9880vr04w
- Dates:
- 1892-1916
- Size:
- 1 box
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of diplomatic and personal papers relating to the Treaty of Shimonoseki and the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), documenting John Watson Foster's role as consultant to the Chinese commissioners in the negotiations.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists of diplomatic and personal papers relating to the Treaty of Shimonoseki and the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), documenting Foster's role as consultant to the Chinese commissioners in the negotiations. Included are the diary (1/30-6/8/1895), begun at Kobe, which Foster kept during his mission; letters to his wife (12/1894-5/1895) from Japan and China; his copies of the Chinese and Japanese diplomatic papers--drafts of the treaty, counter-drafts, memoranda--of the plenipotentiaries (Li Hung-Chang and Ito Hirobumi) involved in the treaty negotiations; passports and other personal papers; and his souvenirs from Japan.
An additional accession includes correspondence of Foster with Hamilton Hull, Paul R. Hickok, Russell Radford, a "Mr. Butler," and a passport signed by Foster for John H. Bloss (1892-1916).
- Collection Creator Biography:
Foster, John W. (John Watson), 1836-1917
John Watson Foster was an American military man, journalist, and diplomat. He served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Benjamin Harrison in 1892 and 1893. He also helped the Qing Dynasty in drafting the Treaty of Shimonoseki of 1895 as a legal consultant and commissioner. His grandchildren included John Foster Dulles, who also became a U.S. Secretary of State, Allen Welsh Dulles, a director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and Eleanor Lansing Dulles, an economist and diplomat.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Gift of Allen W. Dulles '14.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Jill Baron in May 2012. Finding aid written by Jill Baron in May 2012.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Selected Papers of John W. Foster; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/9880vr04w
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1
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- Subject Terms:
- Sino-Japanese War, 1894-1895 -- Diplomatic history.
- Genre Terms:
- Correespondence -- 19th century.
Diaires -- 19th century.
Diplomatic documents -- China -- 19th century.
Diplomatic documents -- Japan -- 19th century.
Diplomats -- United States -- 19th century.
Passports -- United States -- 19th century. - Places:
- China -- Foreign relations -- Japan -- 19th century.
Japan -- Foreign relations -- China -- 19th century.
