JAPAN THROUGH WESTERN EYES

Manuscript Records of Traders, Travellers, Missionaries and Diplomats

Parts 7 and 8: The Harold S. Williams Collection from the National Library of Australia - the Green subject files (Series 1, Folders 1-138) and Additional subject files (Series 2, Folders 1-82)

Detailed Listing - Part 8

MS 6681
Series 2: Additional Subject Files

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Box 22 - Folders 1-6

1 Ailion Family
Correspondence, press cuttings (1960–82) and photographs (including a portrait of Isaac Ailion) relating to the Ailion Family, Isaac Ailion and amateur dramatics in Kobe in 1894.

2–6 Asiatic Society of Japan
Copies of the bulletin of the Society (1971–83) including notes and press cuttings, with indexes to the journal from 1971 to 1980.

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Box 23 - Folders 7-14

7–10 Australia–Japan relations
Press cuttings (1867–68), notes and articles (1961–78) concerning the history of Australia–Japan relations and specific individual events and subjects including immigration, the 1964 Olympics and the development of the Australia–Japan Society.

11 Australian Pavilion at the 1970 EXPO in Japan
Press cuttings and notes.

12–14 Cemeteries
Press cuttings, notes, typescripts and photographs (1961–80) relating to the history of cemeteries in Japan and individual graves of foreign residents and foreigners. Folder 16 contains copies of the typescripts The Foreign Cemeteries of Kobe and Osaka and ‘The Forgotten Grave’ by Williams, with accompanying correspondence, notes and cuttings relating to the story of Antoine Pierre Van der Aa, a Belgian who died in 1870 and was the first foreigner to be buried in Osaka.

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Box 24 - Folders 15-22

15–16 Cemeteries (continued)

17 Cemeteries of Nagasaki
Correspondence, notes, press cuttings (1957–78) and lists of nineteenth century graves in the foreign cemeteries.

18–20 Cobb & Co.; United Yeomen for Sutherland Coaching Companies in Japan; Sutherland stamps
Correspondence, journal extracts, press cuttings and stamp bulletins relating to the history of the Sutherland Coaching Company and early transport in Japan. There is material relating to the origin of rare Sutherland stamps.

21 Cornes, Frederick (b. 1837)
English silk expert who founded the firm of Aspinall, Cornes and Co. in Yokohama. Scrapbook compiled after 1981 containing photographs, notes, typescripts, photocopies and press cuttings (1909–36) relating to Frederick Cornes and the company he founded.

22 European intercourse with Japan; Japan–Netherlands relations
Notes and press cuttings (1898–1981) relating to the history of Europe–Japan relations, in particular the relations between the Netherlands and Japan.

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Box 25 - Folders 23-29

23–26 Food, drinks and menus
Notes, press cuttings and articles relating to the influence of European culture on Japanese food from the 1860s. Subjects include food, drinks, menus, banquets, bars and restaurants, food prices, housekeeping, sake, tea and beef.

27 Foreign cemeteries in Osaka
Scrapbook containing correspondence, minutes, photographs (1950–78), press cuttings, notes and a printed copy of The Foreign Cemeteries of Kobe and Osaka (Folio 1).

28–29 Foreigners in Japan
Scrapbooks of press cuttings on contemporary foreigners living or visiting Japan: vol. 1 (1968–71), vol. 2 (1971–73), vol. 3 (1974–84).

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Box 26 - Folders 30-36

30 Foreigners in Japan (continued)

31 Townsend Harris (1804–1878) and Okichi-San (1841–1891)
Townsend Harris was the first United States Consul General to Japan from 1856 to 1862. Okichi-San was the alleged Japanese mistress of Harris.

Scrapbook with index containing notes, press cuttings, correspondence and journal extracts (1860, 1936, 1953–73) relating to Harris and the story of Okichi- San (Folio 2).

32–33 Holme Ringer & Co.
Notes, press cuttings (1968–76) and correspondence (1980) relating to the company, which was established in Nagasaki in 1868, and to writing the book, The Story of Holme Ringer & Co. Ltd in Western Japan 1868–1968 (1968).

34 Japanese midget submarine raid on Sydney Harbor May 1942
Typescript and press cuttings (1968) relating to the visit to Australia of the mother of a crew member.

35–36 Japanese – United States relations from 1853; the first foreign envoy to the United States in 1860
Notes and press cuttings (1960, 1980) relating to voyage of the Kanrin Maru and the first Japanese diplomatic mission in the United States.

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Box 27 - Folders 37-41

37 Japan – United States Amity and Trade Centennial (May 1960)
Press cuttings and journal articles relating to the centenary and history of the first Japanese diplomatic mission to the United States (Folio 3).

38 Kagoshima bombardment 15 August 1863; Shimonoseki Naval Operation 1863–64; Chino–Japanese War; Russo–Japanese War
Press cuttings from the Illustrated London News (1863), photographs and postcards assembled in a scrapbook in 1964 (Folio 4).

39 Kobe
Kobe—a book of illustrations published by the Kobe City Office and an illustrated pamphlet on Kobe, both containing Williams’ annotations of interesting photographs (1980).

40–41 Kobe
Notes, typescripts of articles and speeches, references, press cuttings and correspondence (1953–81) relating to the history of Kobe, indexed alphabetically by subject.

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Box 28 - Folders 42-45

42–43 Kobe (continued)
Notes, typescripts of articles and speeches, references, press cuttings and correspondence (1953–81) relating to the history of Kobe, indexed alphabetically by subject.

44 Kobe Regatta and Athletic Club
Correspondence (1971) concerning the publication of Williams’ book The Kobe Regatta and Athletic Club: The First Hundred Years.

45 Kobe Club
Documents, notes and cards relating to the Club. They include a typescript of a chronological table (1868–1972) of the history and origin of the Kobe Club with references to Japanese English language newspapers.

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Box 29 - Folders 46-52

46–47 Kobe Regatta and Athletic Club
Two scrapbooks of programs, reports, notes, press cuttings, documents, photographs and correspondence (1911–71)
(Folios 5–6).

48 Kobe Regatta and Athletic Club—reports etc.
Copies of the pamphlet The Kobe Regatta and Athletic Club 1870–1927, published in 1927; articles of association and notes (Folio 7).

49 Kobe Regatta and Athletic Club
Album containing copies of reports, press cuttings, photographs, typescripts and contract documents (1925–83).

50 Kyoto
Notes, references and press cuttings (1959–73) relating to the history of Kyoto.

51–52 Nagasaki
Notes, references, press cuttings, correspondence and population statistics (1953–67).

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Box 30 - Folders 53-58

53 Nagasaki: List of foreign Hongs and residents at Nagasaki in 1867

54–56 Osaka
Notes, press cuttings with reproductions of nineteenth century photographs of Osaka, typescript of lecture, articles and Japanese language journal (1957–79) relating to the history and foreign communities of Osaka. Included is a nineteenth century press cutting. Folder 54 contains a list of the main subjects of the file.

57–58 The press: the foreign press in Japan
Press cuttings, notes and correspondence (1941, 1957–60) relating to the history of English language newspapers and journals in Japan. Notes and typescript drafts of articles by Williams on newspapers in Japan are included in Folder 49. There is a name index to the newspapers and journals.

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Box 31 - Folders 59-64

59 The press: the foreign press in Japan (continued)

60 Shanghai and Macao
Scrapbook of press cuttings, journal articles, photographs and postcards relating to Shanghai and Macao in the 1950s and 1960s, and to China in the 1980s.

61–62 Shipping companies
American President Line; Ben Line; Kiodo Unyu Kaisha; Messageries Maritimes; NDL (North German Line);NYK (Nippon Yusen Kaisha); P&O (Peninsular and Oriental); Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co.; Pacific Mail Steamship Co.; Royal Interocean Lines and Teikoku Senpaku KK.

Notes, references, press cuttings, correspondence and excerpts from letters and journals (1859, 1954–77) relating to the history of the shipping companies.

63–66 Ships and shipping
Press cuttings, correspondence (1954–80), notes and references relating to individual ships that were part of the history of shipping in Japan, including early British ships and vessels on the Pacific run; there are photographs of the Chusan, the Delta and the Massilia. A list of the ships mentioned appears at the front of Folder 63.

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Box 32 - Folders 65-70

65–66 Ships and shipping (continued)

67 Teachers—foreign teachers in Japan
Scrapbook with name index containing press cuttings of articles on the history of foreign teachers in Japan by Sir Vere Redman in the Asahi Evening News from 1964 to 1966. Press cuttings and extracts from journals of articles by others (1965–78) are also included.

68–70 Tokyo (Yedo)
Notes and references from nineteenth century newspapers, and press cuttings, correspondence and articles (1950–76) relating to the influence of western customs and society and the history of Tokyo in the context of the foreign settlements. Comparisons with the Japan of the 1960s to the 1980s are sometimes included in press cuttings. There are two pamphlets; one an illustrated tourist pamphlet relating to the 1964 Olympic Games, entitled Tokyo Invites, published by the Organizing Committee for the Games of the Eighteenth Olympiad; the other a pamphlet in Japanese and English entitled Oriental Goddess (1974–75), by Japanese businesswoman Mama Ginbasha.

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Box 33 - Folders 71-76

71 ‘Where They Now Rest Peacefully’ Series in the Mainichi Daily News (1967–68)

Scrapbook of press cuttings of biographical details and locations of tombs of noted Japanese as published in the series ‘Where They Now Rest Peacefully’. A listing is at the front of the file.

72 White Australia
Press cuttings from Australian newspapers (1953–61) and typescript of a speech by the Australian politician, Arthur Calwell.

73 Willis, William
The first British doctor in Japan, who arrived c.1862 as medical officer for the British Legation. Correspondence, photocopies from Japanese microfilm (1982–83) and a typescript of a speech by Sir Hugh Cortazzi in 1983.

74–76 Yokohama
Postcards, press cuttings (1958–68), notes and references relating to Yokohama’s history and foreign influence. Included is a copy of Kanagawa Community News, Japan vol. 15, (November 1968), with an article relating to various phases of Yokohama settlement. There is also a typescript of a paper on the hospitals of Yokohama by D Malcolm Edwards. A subject index to the file is in folder 74
(a–f) and folder 77 (g–z).

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Box 34 - Folders 77-82

77–79 Yokohama (continued)

80 Miscellaneous
Typescript (1968) and press cuttings (1982) collected by Williams to add to his collection. The subjects are: Dutch–Deshima, H J Griffiths, the Kirby Case, Jardine Matheson, Nagasaki cemeteries, Commodore Perry, Professor F Starr and Japan – United States trade relations.

81 Miscellaneous: nineteenth century Japan
Published articles on life in nineteenth century Japan, including references to John Reddie Black and the Australian, Alfred H Prince.

82 Miscellaneous
Press cuttings, photographs and typescript relating to the Japanese ‘love’ hotels at Shioya.

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