Scope and Content Note The collection consists of the correspondence between John Casper Branner and Albert Homer Purdue, from 1892-1917. It includes a letter from Branner to Purdue's widow, Ida Pace Purdue, on the occasion of Purdue's death; Ida Pace Purdue's reply is also contained in the collection. Letters are variously handwritten or typescript; all are photocopies. The correspondence between Dr. John Casper Branner (1850-1922) and Albert Homer Purdue forms a portion of the Branner collection of...

Scope and Content Note This collection contains letters that Dr. Noah Fields Drake sent to one of his professors at Stanford University, Dr. J.C. Brammer, while he was teaching geology at Tientsin University, China. He mentions his work, students and life in China in general. In the final letters he speaks of thinking about leaving China to find work in Japan because of the rising tensions in China due to the...