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Harry H. Love papers

 Collection
Identifier: 21-28-890

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Papers include correspondence, reports, photographs, plans, statistical data, notes, and scientific papers pertaining mainly to the work done in China and Thailand and at Cornell by Professor Love, a specialist in cereal breeding and the application of statistical methods to agricultural research; papers concerning China relate mainly to agricultural research, extension work, and reconstruction at the University of Nanking, the needs and problems of that university, particularly during the Japanese occupation, the studies of Nanking graduate students at Cornell, the field work and studies of Chinese trainees at Cornell and in American industry, and assistance Love gave to Chinese agronomists; also, speeches, radio talks, articles, and various papers, including the manuscript of "The Cornell-Nanking Story" by Love and John H. Reisner; and photographs and printed matter; also, correspondence, minutes, and reports relating to organizations in which Love participated, among them Rotary International, Agricultural Missions, Inc., the Advisory Committee for Foreign Students at Cornell, the Cosmopolitan Club at Cornell, the Ithaca Presbyterian Church, the American Society of Agronomy, Sigma Xi, and Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, as Cornell chapter advisor and chairman (1934-1935) of its court of inquiry.

Love's correspondence (1926-1949) contains numerous references to the military and political situation in China, in particular the looting of Nanking in 1927, the Japanese bombing of that city and its fall in 1937, the plight of refugees during World War II, and the rise of the Communists to power; post-war letters comment occasionally on the operation of American economic and technical assistance programs in underdeveloped countries; a few letters are concerned with the missionary work of American Protestants in China, Syria, and Thailand. Also, a two page record of a conversation between Love and Henry Munger regarding the application of statistics to plant breeding, 1962. Correspondents include S. Neale Alter, Sanford Atwood, A. J. Bowen, J. Lossing Buck, Pearl S. Buck, Y. G. Chen, Y. S. Chen, T. H. Chien, Owen L. Dawson, B. A. Garside, Burgoyne L. Griffing, J. B. Griffing, G. Weidman Groff, Raymond S. Hall, Margaret Higgins, Donald C. Kerr, J. R. King, Carl E. Ladd, Kung Ksiang Lin, Walter K. Lowdermilk, Albert R. Mann, Clyde H. Myers, William I. Myers, Jared T. Newman, Bill Pan, Robert L. Pendleton, R. H. Porter, Frank W. Price, Elsie M. Priest, John H. Reisner, George E. Ritchey, Horace W. Ryburn, Knowles A. Ryerson, T. H. Shen, K. S. Sie, Burl Alva Slocum, Louis C. Smythe, Sao-ke Alfred Sze, P. W. Tsou, and Roy W. Wiggans.

Dates

  • 1907-1964.

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Harry H. Love was a professor of Plant Breeding at Cornell University; department chairman, 1944-1949; special consultant in plant breeding, University of Nanking, 1925, 1929; advisor in agriculture and crop improvement to the Chinese Ministry of Industries and special lecturer at the University of Nanking and the Central University, 1931-1934; advisor at the agricultural experiment station, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, 1939, 1940; member of the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction of China, 1949-1950; and advisor in rice breeding, Thailand, 1950-1956.

Extent

15 cubic feet. (15 cubic feet.)

Abstract

Papers include correspondence, reports, photographs, plans, statistical data, notes, and scientific papers pertaining mainly to the work done in China and Thailand and at Cornell by Professor Love, a specialist in cereal breeding and the application of statistical methods to agricultural research; papers concerning China relate mainly to agricultural research, extension work, and reconstruction at the University of Nanking, the needs and problems of that university, particularly during the Japanese occupation, the studies of Nanking graduate students at Cornell, the field work and studies of Chinese trainees at Cornell and in American industry, and assistance Love gave to Chinese agronomists; also, speeches, radio talks, articles, and various papers, including the manuscript of "The Cornell-Nanking Story" by Love and John H. Reisner.

Physical Description

Correspondence, reports, photographs, plans, statistical data, notes, scientific papers, speeches, radio talks, articles, photographs, minutes, and other papers.

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. Warren
Date completed:
August 1984
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, February 2003
Date modified:
RMC Staff, April 2018
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by M. Warren
Date
February 2003
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)