COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Papers include correspondence; notes, flashcards, and other materials related to linguistics and spelling reform; files on health, travels, social planning, arms control, and other topics; an autobiography and vitae; a will; news clippings; and photographs. Correspondents include siblings W. Gordon, Helen, Lois, and Joy TeWinkel; his aunt, Sarella TeWinkel; his mother, Lucy TeWinkel; Idorenyin U. Akpan; David Sergeant; and others, especially friends in Australia and Nigeria. Also, memorabilia relating to his tour of Japan, 1988; and correspondence about Sichuan University. Also, a broadside "Letter from the Communist Party to the Whole People," an explanation of military suppression in Tiananmen Square, 1989.
A May 7, 1982 letter to Tewinkel covers gay and lesbian topics, including gay sex in Sydney, Australia's steam baths, Radclyffe Hall's "The Well of Loneliness," and other literature on homosexuality. (Box 1, folder 6)
Dates
- 1926-1991.
Creator
- TeWinkel, John R., 1916- (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
John R. TeWinkel graduated from Cornell University in 1938 and received an M.A. from Boston University in 1958. From 1941 to 1942, he taught English in Nanking and Chungking, China, and later taught in Morocco, Greece, and Nigeria, as well as in a number of schools in the United States. He also served in a Friends Ambulance Unit as a medical relief distributor in South China, 1942-1944; and as librarian and transaction clerk in the UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Extent
1.9 cubic feet. (1.9 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Papers of John R. TeWinkel, a Cornell graduate who lived in China, Morocco, Greece, Nigeria, and the United States.
Physical Description
Correspondence; notes, flashcards, and other materials related to linguistics and spelling reform; files; an autobiography and vitae; a will; news clippings; and photographs.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- M.E. Warren
- Date completed:
- August 1988
- EAD encoding:
- Martin Heggestad, April 2003
- Date modified:
- Kristen Reichenbach, January 2019
- Africa -- Description.
- Akpan, Idorenyin U.
- Arms control.
- China -- Description.
- Homosexuality.
- New Age movement.
- Nigeria -- Description.
- Phonetic alphabet.
- Photographs.
- Sergeant, David.
- Spelling reform.
- TeWinkel, Helen.
- TeWinkel, Joy.
- TeWinkel, Lois.
- TeWinkel, Lucy.
- TeWinkel, Sarella.
- TeWinkel, W. Gordon.
- Tian\'an Men (Beijing, China).
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by M.E. Warren
- Date
- April 2003
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu