Letter from Sygman Rhee to Durward V. Sandifer (Secretary General, US Delegation). Discusses 'technicalities' of Korean government in exile and admittance to UN Conference; also condemns the conference at Yalta and declares Korea will not be the…
Press Release from the Department of State. It lists problems in post War Korea, such as: the division caused by the Soviet occupation of the area above the 38th Parallel, the decimation caused by Japanese occupation, Korean exiles, and the rise of…
Press release from the Korean Affairs Institute, 09/01/1945, dealing with a bill that liberated Korea will present to Japan for partial payment for losses suffered in 40 years of occupation.
Letter from John Sherman to William Franklin Sands. Sherman acknowledges that Sands may have to go to Nagasaki to testify against the Japanese people who assaulted him.
Memo about the Estate of C.W. Le Gendre. Charles W. Le Gendre was an advisor to the household of Korea. Died 09/01/1899. This has a list of things done after his death in relation to his estate
Series of diplomatic dispatches dealing with the sale of land in Masampo, 06/29/1899 – 03/08/1900. Russians, Mr. Stein, Russian Steamship Navigation Company, Mr. Pavlow, Japan, and the Russian Trading Company are all mentioned.
Letter to William Franklin Sands from H.R. Bostwick. It is a letter about a railroad that the Seoul Electric Company built and is being threatened with destruction by the Seoul Chemulpo Railway.
Terms of an agreement in which Woo-San Mines would loan 3 Million Yen for 50 Years at 4% interest, in return, they would take part in controlling the mines.
A Second letter to Salisbury – Foreign Office – London talks about British miners arresting a government official at their mine on 2/16 and Britain’s response.
Letter William Franklin Sands to Emperor of Korea. The letter from Sands talks about receiving a payment to cover the bills on the notes from Collbran & Bostwick.
Letter from Suzanne Vidal to William Franklin Sands. Sands has a note at the top requesting her to visit the Emperor because he wanted to see what a small foreign girl looked like. She replies that she will go to a private audience with the…
Two Telegrams to William Franklin Sands from Sundins. The first talks about an attempted rescue of Tientsin, and about Chinese soldiers attacking a French Settlement. The second is a reply by Sundins during the Boxer Rebellion.
Letter from S. Markel [?] to William Franklin Sands. He says not much is happening in China, asks for food, mentions Report No. 17, and asks for photographs.