William Smith Clark Papers, 1814-2003 (bulk 1844-1886, 1956-1976) Finding Aid : Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries

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Massachusetts native, Civil War veteran, botanist, chemist, mineralogist, and educator who held the presidency of Massachusetts Agricultural College (now University of Massachusetts Amherst) from 1867-1879 and who helped to found Sapporo Agricultural College (now Hokkaido University) in Japan in 1876. Papers include correspondence with fellow professors and scientists, students in Japan, and family; photographs and personal items; official correspondence and memoranda; published articles; books, articles, television, and radio materials relating to Dr. Clark, in Japanese and English; and materials regarding Hokkaido University and its continuing relationship with the University of Massachusetts.

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Background on William Smith Clark

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William Smith Clark was born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, July 31, 1826. He attended Williston Academy in Easthampton, Massachusetts, in the first class, that of 1844. He graduated from Amherst College in 1848 as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. As a boy, he became interested in collecting birds and plants; at Amherst College, under the influence of the professors, he became greatly interested in science, especially mineralogy. As a result, he went to study in Germany, where he obtained his Ph.D. at Georgia Augusta University in Goettingen in 1852.

He returned to Amherst College to an appointment as a professor. For the next fifteen years, from 1852 to 1867, he was a member of the Amherst faculty, where he became known as an educational innovator, a fine and inspiring teacher, and a fund raiser for the college. His teaching at Amherst College was interrupted only by the Civil War, during which he served the Union Army with distinction from 1861 to 1863. Soon after his return from the war, he became the leader in the successful efforts by the town of Amherst to become the seat of a new agricultural college just authorized by the Massachusetts General Court under the provision of the Morrill Act, the "Land Grant Act" that established state agricultural and mechanical colleges throughout the United States. Just before the new Massachusetts Agricultural College opened its doors in September 1867, he was appointed president, the third to hold the title, the first two having no school over which to preside. He held the presidency of MAC for twelve years, until 1879.

Clark taught and administered the affairs of the struggling college. He insisted on making his school into a general liberal arts school, not simply a training school for farmers-to-be. Early in 1876, he obtained a leave of absence from MAC and accepted the appointment by the Japanese government to open a new agricultural college on the model of MAC. He went to Japan in the late spring and arrived on his fiftieth birthday in Sapporo, where he opened the Sapporo Agricultural College in mid-August. He remained there for eight and a half months, during which he established the school, taught four hours a day, served as the technical advisor to the island of Hokkaido, and paved the way for the conversion to Christianity of all the members of the first class. At SAC, he demonstrated anew his qualities as a fine teacher that had been revealed at both AC and MAC. He was a great inspiration to his students, all of whom became leaders in Hokkaido or nationally in Japan. As a result of his highly successful mission, his name remained well-known in Japan more than a century after his brief stay there. All Japanese school children since his time have learned as a motto his farewell statement, "Boys, be ambitious, (B.B.A.)", since extended to students of both sexes.

On returning to MAC in 1877 he found that the school's existence had become even more precarious than before. He resigned as president early in 1879 and accepted the presidency of an innovative "floating college" which was to circumnavigate the globe. However, the unfortunate premature death of the promoter brought that venture to an end shortly before the intended date of departure. Clark then became involved with a shady character with whom he founded the firm of Clark and Bothwell, a mining venture. Within a year Clark made and lost a considerable fortune. The collapse of the firm, with the disappearance of his partner, resulted in losses to the investors in the mines operated by the firm, including many citizens of Amherst.

Clark's health failed immediately after the firm's collapse in 1882 and he remained a semi-invalid until his death on March 9, 1886. Although he was a leading citizen of Amherst and prominent in the affairs of the Commonwealth, his fame has endured primarily in Japan.

Scope of collection

The papers of William Smith Clark, 1814-2001 (bulk 1844-1886, 1956-1976), include correspondence with fellow professors and scientists, students in Japan, and family; photographs and personal items; official correspondence and memoranda; published articles; books, articles, television, and radio materials relating to Dr. Clark, in Japanese and English; and materials regarding Hokkaido University and its continuing relationship with the University of Massachusetts.

The papers reveal many details about the early days of MAC, student life at AC, the Civil War, the island of Hokkaido in the late nineteenth century, and the role of William Smith Clark in the founding of SAC, as well as his interactions with colleagues, officials, students, and family. As to full documentation of his life, however, the papers are an uneven representation. The correspondence, for example, adequately covers his undergraduate years at AC, his two years of graduate school in Germany, his less than two years at the front in the Civil War, and his year in Japan. Virtually nothing in the correspondence, however, deals with his years as a professor at AC, his presidency of MAC, his disastrous mining venture, or the final four years of his life.

Clark was not a prolific writer. Apart from his MAC and SAC presidential reports, his writings consisted largely of printed versions of lectures on botanical experiments carried out at MAC during his presidency, and articles on educational issues related to MAC.

Because of his AC career, his MAC presidency, and his prominence as a leading citizen of his town and state, his activities were given a fairly extensive coverage in the local press. A considerable number of newspaper clippings is included in the papers, but his political activities are not represented in other ways. The clippings are generally photocopies, often of poor legibility, especially those in oversize Box 27.

The photographs in Series 1 are numerous enough to be of significance in documenting the life of William Smith Clark.

As compared with the number of documents written or received by Clark, there is a disproportionately large amount of material written about him in both English and Japanese. This is a reflection of the breadth of the impact that Clark had on the island of Hokkaido, on SAC (which became Tohoku Imperial University, then Hokkaido Imperial University, and finally Hokkaido University), and on his Japanese students who became leaders in Hokkaido and Japan itself. Clark's fame has long remained green in Japan, as indicated by the long television documentary on his life shown on a Japanese national network in 1981.

Because of William Smith Clark's involvement with the establishment of SAC and the constant presence of MAC personnel on its campus in the early years, a close relationship between the two agricultural schools was established long ago. This relationship continued in both formal and informal ways through the years and is documented in the papers, particularly in Series 5.

The Clark papers include copies of a few items of correspondence and other materials at AC, and copies of William Smith Clark's official memoranda in the Hokudai Library. The latter also has reproductions of all the original personal correspondence in the Clark papers at the University of Massachusetts.

Additional materials relating to William Smith Clark or HU is to be found in the University Archives in the official minutes of the MAC Board of Trustees (RG-2/1), in the published Annual Reports of MAC (RG-1/00/2) (reports for 1864-1932/33 available online), in the papers of William Wheeler (RG-2/3), Horace Stockbridge (RG-40/11), David P. Penhallow (RG-50/6-1873), William P. Brooks (RG-3/1-1905), Jean Paul Mather (RG-3/1-1954), the Center for International Agriculture (RG-15/4), International Programs (RG-6/4/9), Student Union (RG-36/100), John Lederle (RG-3/1-1960), and Charles Goessman (RG-40/11).

Series descriptions

Series 1. Biographical Materials

1850-1986

3 boxes (1.25 linear feet)

Series 1 is divided into three subseries: College, Military, and Other Biographical Records; Personal Association Items; and Photographs and Pictures.

Series 1 consists of materials closely associated with the life of William Smith Clark, not including third-person biographical accounts, which are in Series 4. "Personal Association Items" are those for which there is evidence or a strong presumption of their having been in William Smith Clark's possession.

The materials in Subseries 1: College, Military, and Other Biographical Records, include the Clark family record, apparently in William Smith Clark's handwriting; his biographical form prepared for the AC alumni records; excerpts from books and records regarding William Smith Clark and family members (folder 1); his grandson William Smith Clark II's AC graduation certificate (oversize Box 27); a number of obituaries, including one by UCHIMURA Kanzo, who was later to become a prominent Christian leader in Japan (folder 2); copies of William Smith Clark's military service records and a letter from Major General A.E. Burnside to Major General George B. McCellan recommending William Smith Clark for promotion to Brigadier General (folder 3); accounts of the 21st Regiment Volunteers (folder 4); Civil War newspaper clippings, including William Smith Clark's own accounts of the battles of Newbern and Camden, and the erroneous account of his death in battle (folder 5); miscellaneous printed items, including many newspaper clippings (folder 6 and oversize Box 27); materials relating to the introduction of Japanese trees into the United States (folder 7); and photographs of the log maintained atop Mt. Shasta, with Clark's signature on June 16, 1877 (oversize Box 27).

Subseries 2: Personal Association Items, includes William Smith Clark's passport for his European trip (folder 8); his notebook used at Georgia Augusta University in Goettingen, consisting of his lecture notes from a course in "economical botany" and detailed notes in German by someone else, which seem to be a condensation of a book or study notes (folder 9); William Smith Clark's AC catalogue of 1855-56 with his record of student rent payments (folder 10); pictures and sketches sent from Germany (folder 11); a scrapbook of clippings, largely farm animals, 1860, n.d. (folder 12); a MAC library poster issued over William Smith Clark's name (folder 13); an inventory of Ainu objects and other artifacts sent by William Smith Clark to MAC from Japan (folder 14); a lithograph of Commodore Perry at Hokudai (folder 15); and William Smith Clark's lists of Japanese lichens and phenograms (folder 16).

Subseries 3: Photographs and Pictures, is arranged into the following categories: William Smith Clark alone (folder 17); William Smith Clark's office and classroom at MAC, c. 1876 (folder 18); family, including what is probably a honeymoon picture, and the group photograph of his family which is probably the one he had in his quarters in Sapporo (folder 19); the family home in Amherst (folder 20); William Smith Clark, students, and faculty of SAC (folder 21); farewell photograph taken in Sapporo, April 16, 1877 (folder 22); photographs of various memorials to William Smith Clark (folder 23); a family scrapbook with photographs of William Smith Clark's friends and descendants in the last pages (folder 24); a photocopy of a photograph of William Smith Clark with HORI Seitarō and several Karafuto (Sakhalin) Ainu, from a Peabody Museum of Salem publication (folder 25); photographs of an exhibit prepared by ŌSAKA Shingo, (original paintings by SUNAGANE Takashi from the exhibit in Box 28; see information below on the exhibition, "A Pictorial Life of Col. William Clark") (folder 26); and a tree planting ceremony at William Smith Clark's grave. May 18, 1973 (folder 27).

In the farewell picture William Smith Clark has tentatively been identified after careful analysis by AKIZUKI Toshiyuki, head of the Reference Division of the Hokudai Library, as the figure with the light colored hat on the horse second from the right.

The exhibition, "A Pictorial Life of Col. William Clark" was prepared by the Rev. ŌSAKA Shingo, the Japanese biographer of William Smith Clark. He wrote the narration which appears on the backs of the series of original paintings by SUNAGANE Takashi titled, "The Picture Story of Our Dr. William Smith Clark, from 1826-1876", filed in oversize Box 28. This series of watercolors was part of ŌSAKA's exhibit prepared to commemorate in Hokkaido the 1961 centennial of William Smith Clark's going off to fight in the Civil War. It was displayed in the American Cultural Center in Sapporo and in many primary schools in Hokkaido.

The tree planting ceremony took place at the Clark Family plot in West Cemetery, Amherst, on May 18, 1973. The tree was a cherry descended from the one that Professor William Brooks, William Smith Clark's student who joined him in Sapporo, brought back from Japan. It was presented by the late Professor William Colby, who served as a visiting professor at Hokkaido University in the early 1960s.

Housed with this collection, but not part of it, is the photograph album of G.A. Parker, Class of 1876, which includes additional photographs of William Smith Clark and his family, and the MAC campus at the time of William Smith Clark's presidency. See RG 130/1876.

Additional photographs can be found in the Archives oversize photograph collection, RG 175.

Series 2. Correspondence

1814-1930 (bulk1844-1885)

2 boxes, 1.0 linear feet

Series 2 consists of two broad categories of correspondence-personal, and official. The personal correspondence covers William Smith Clark's student days at AC, his period of study in Europe, his service in the Civil War, his mission to Hokkaido, and his subsequent communications with his Japanese students and officials. The official correspondence deals with his mission to Hokkaido, and to a limited extent with his presidency of MAC.

Much of the personal correspondence in the collection and the letters dealing with his MAC presidency are originals but are in fragile condition and therefore are available as photocopies to minimize handling. The photocopies are filed in Box 4; the originals owned by the University of Massachusetts Amherst are in Box 5.

The official correspondence dealing with Hokkaido consists of originals held by UMass and photocopies of originals in the possession of Hokudai. Copies of official Hokkaido correspondence in the possession of UMass are in turn available at Hokudai. Copies of additional correspondence regarding Hokudai can be found in Special Collections and University Archives in the papers of William Wheeler (RG 2/3), David Penhallow (RG 50/6 1873) and Horace Stockbridge (RG 40/11).

What follows here is a general description of the items in Series 2. The Container List identifies each individual item.

Folder 1 consists almost entirely of letters from William Smith Clark to members of his family while he was a student at AC. These letters provide insight into the happy family relations between him and his parents and his sister Harriet. His accounts of life as a student reveal a great deal about college life at AC. The most significant incident covered by these letters is his religious conversion, reported in a letter to his mother March 16, 1846.

Folder 2 contains twenty-one letters dated 1850-1852, mostly to his parents and three sisters while William Smith Clark was in Europe. These are particularly valuable because of the detailed descriptions of what William Smith Clark observed both in England and in Germany.

Folder 3 contains his honeymoon letter to his parents, dated May 30, 1853 from Charleston, Virginia, and two other letters.

Folder 4 contains his Civil War letters to his family and Amherst friends. They reflect his shift in attitude towards war, from that of his early weeks in the army when he relished the glory and romance, to his final view that war is death, suffering, and hardship. These letters shed more light on his close family ties.

Folder 5 contains a fragment of a letter to his father in 1865.

Folder 6 contains the small number of letters dating from his presidency of MAC. About half of these letters relate to Japan and his mission to Hokkaido. The items most directly concerned with MAC are the two letters dealing with the junior class protest regarding selection of speakers for Commencement Week, 1872. Of interest is a request from Japanese ambassador YOSHIDA Kiyonari for William Smith Clark to speak in favor of treaty revision.

Folders 7-12 contain official correspondence relating to Hokkaido, which has been organized chronologically as follows in order to illuminate the development and flow of William Smith Clark's work

Folder 7. Jan to Mar 1876. Preliminaries and Contract
Folder 8. Jul to Aug 1876. Preparations, Initial days at SAC
Folder 9. Sep 1876. First Month of Intensive Operations
Folder 10. Oct to Dec 1876. The Middle Period
Folder 11. Jan to May 1877. Preparations for Departure and Farewells
Folder 12. 1877 to 1880. Continued work for SAC after return to US

The Container List has been annotated to show the contents of most items in these folders.

Duplicates of some of the photocopies of the official correspondence are filed in Box 24. An attempt was made to file the most legible copy in Box 4; particular words, however, might be clearer on the duplicate copy. See also folder 13, which contains typescripts of those letters from William Smith Clark to Japanese officials for folders 7-12. Folder 13 also includes typescripts of two letters (originals at Hokkaido University) to students which are not represented by photocopies: William Smith Clark to Mr. Y. KUROIWA, March 11, 1879 from New York, and William Smith Clark to UCHIDA, December 25, 1883 in Amherst.

The William Wheeler papers (RG 2/3) and William Smith Clark's letters to his wife and children (folder 14) are excellent supplements to the official correspondence because of the additional information they provide on the voyage to Hokkaido and William Smith Clark's operations with the Japanese in Hokkaido.

Folder 14, as mentioned above, contains William Smith Clark's correspondence with his family while he was in Hokkaido. These letters are valuable not only for the descriptions of William Smith Clark's experiences and work in Hokkaido, but also for what they tell us of the warmth of his relationships with his wife and small children. The letters from William Smith Clark to his wife are typed copies which were presented to the University of Massachusetts Amherst by Mrs. William S. Clark II. Where the originals are and who copied them are unknown. Both the content and a careful comparison of the style of these copies and other William Smith Clark letters leave little doubt as to their authenticity. The folder of the photocopies includes typed transcripts of the two letters to brother-in-law William B. Churchill and to Sister Belle, as well.

Folder 15 contains subsequent correspondence with Clark's Japanese students and two of the officials William Smith Clark dealt with while in Hokkaido. These letters reveal the close ties that developed between William Smith Clark and his students. They contain, in addition to expressions of feeling, news about SAC and Hokkaido and many references to the students' religious concerns.

Folder 15a includes typescripts of all the letters in folder 15, as well as three additional ones, the originals of which are at HU. See also folder 13.

Folder 16 contains miscellaneous items which do not fit well into any of the above categories. The most significant are the 1884 and 1885 letters (originals at HU) to William P. Brooks, the last known to have been written by William Smith Clark before his death in 1886. A letter from William Smith Clark's son, Atherton, to MAC Secretary Robert Hawley in 1930 indicates that William Smith Clark's papers were scattered or destroyed when the family home in Amherst was broken up.

Folder 17 contains photographs of letters (originals at Doshisha) from William Smith Clark to Joseph NEESIMA, written between 1878-1882.

Series 3. Writings

1848-1879, 1993

1.5 boxes, 0.75 linear feet

Series 3 consists of 20 items, most of which are published versions of public lectures delivered by William Smith Clark, a situation flowing naturally from the fact that he was famous as a lecturer.

Three books are included: On Metallic Meteorites (folder 2), his doctoral dissertation published in 1852; his translation of Theodore Scheerer's The Blowpipe Manual (folder 7), published in 1869; and Collected Papers of Dr. W.S. Clark (folder 17), edited and with a bibliography by YAMAMOTO Tamaki, Hokkaido University, published in 1993.

"Report on Horses" (folder 3) was written while William Smith Clark was a professor at AC and was active in the Hampshire (County) Agricultural Society.

The seven publications here from his MAC years, excluding The Blowpipe Manual, include four relating to his role as President and three which can be described as research papers. The four presidential writings are "The Work and the Wants of the College" (folder 4), "Rules for the Agricultural Department, MAC" (folder 5), "Professional Education the Present Want of Agriculture" (folder 8), and "The Relations of Botany to Agriculture" (folder 9). The three research papers are "The Circulation of Sap in Plants", "Nature's Mode of Distributing Plants", and "Observations upon the Phenomena of Plant Life". All of these publications illustrate the development of the scientific study of agriculture in the formative years of this land-grant school.

The sap circulation study was a source of controversy. Although there is no contemporary account of it, the daughter of Professor Selim Peabody, then a MAC professor, wrote some years later that her father was responsible for the research and that William Smith Clark, as President, had simply placed his name on the report. "A Lecture on the Flow of Sap and the Power of Plant Growth", found in William Smith Clark's 12th Annual Report of the MAC, and "Observations upon the Phenomena of Plant Life" both include an account of the famous experiment which measured the power created by the growth of a giant squash.

William Smith Clark's own record of what he accomplished and observed in Japan is to be found in the "First Annual Report of Sapporo Agricultural College" (folder 14) and "The Agriculture of Japan" (folder 16). The latter demonstrated William Smith Clark's powers of observation and reporting, also revealed in his correspondence.

The "Covenant of Believers in Jesus" (copy in folder 15, original in oversize Box 27) was composed by William Smith Clark and signed by all of the students in the first freshman class at SAC. It is evidence of his success as an informal missionary, because it was a major step in the eventual baptism of the students, an event which took place several months after William Smith Clark's departure from Japan.

Not included are the annual reports of MAC which he wrote as President from 1867 to 1879. The annual reports may be found in the University Archives, RG 1/00/2 (also available online through the Special Collections and University Archives web site).

Series 4. Materials about William Smith Clark

1858-1996

11.5 boxes, 5.0 linear feet

Series 4 contains a wide variety of material touching on his life and work, and is divided into seven subseries. It includes correspondence about him, reminiscences and biographical sketches, books and articles about him, materials compiled for a biography, and audio-visual materials about his life.

Box 7, folders 1-6, contain Subseries 1: Correspondence about William Smith Clark, the bulk of which (folders 2-5) is dated 1940 or later and provides little fresh information about William Smith Clark. The most significant letter is that by Dr. MIYABE Kingo (folder 1) on the plans for a Clark memorial church in Sapporo.

Folder 6 contains material relating to the William Smith Clark Association, an informal group made up of Amherst residents, mostly from the University of Massachusetts, who were concerned with Amherst's relations with Hokkaido and HU. It was created mainly to plan the UMass contributions to the celebration of the Hokudai centennial (and, of course, the centennial of William Smith Clark's mission to Hokkaido) in 1976.

Boxes 8 and 9 contain Subseries 2: Reminiscences and Biographical Sketches. Many of the items listed contain only brief references to William Smith Clark, which contribute little to an understanding of him but do reveal the extent to which he became and has remained well known in Japan. The most valuable items include reminiscences by William Smith Clark's son Atherton (folder 12); the writings of MIYABE (folder 29), ŌSHIMA (folder 33), and Bowker (folder 10), all former students; and the article by David P. Penhallow (folder 35).

The article, "Boys, Be Ambitious" from the New Prince English Course, 1981 (folder 31), a middle school textbook used nationally in Japan, shows how William Smith Clark is remembered more than a century after his mission to Hokkaido.

Boxes 10 and 11 contain Subseries 3: Books, which deal wholly or in part with the life of William Smith Clark. Brief comments on some of the principal titles are given below:

Kurāku Sensei Shoden [Life of Dr. Clark], by ŌSAKA Shingo, Sapporo 1956 (folder 53), is the definitive biography in Japanese by the man who was the foremost Japanese authority on William Smith Clark. This long biography was written without the benefit of access to much material which became available after its publication.
Kurāku Sensei to Sono Deshitachi [Dr. Clark and his Students], by ŌSHIMA Masatake, 1943 (folder 54), is of value because its author was one of William Smith Clark's students at SAC.
Kurāku no ichinen (Clark's Year) [on verso of t.p.: The Japanese Experience of William Smith Clark], by ŌTA Yūzō, Tokyo, 1979 (folder 55), written by a McGill University history professor, consists primarily of translations of Clark's letters to his family at Sapporo that are found in Series 2.
Foreign Pioneers from the Hokkaido Prefectural Government, 1968 (folder 47-48), contains brief biographies of a number of foreigners, the majority Americans, who played roles in the early development of Hokkaido.
Kurāku: Sono Eikō to Zasetsu [Clark: His Glory and Collapse], by John Maki, translated by TAKAKU Shin'ichi, Hokkaido University Press, 1978 (folder 51),was published in English in 1996 as William Smith Clark: A Yankee in Hokkaido. See Boxes 12 and 13.

Boxes 12 and 13 contain Subseries 4: John Maki Manuscript, William Smith Clark: A Yankee in Hokkaido which includes a photocopied typescript of William Smith Clark: A Yankee in Hokkaido by John Maki; the author's account of how he came to write it; and a J.F. Howes review of the book from The American Historical Review. It is the only book length biography of Clark in English.

Box 14 contains Subseries 5: Background Materials for Maki Biography of William Smith Clark. The materials, compiled by John Maki for use in writing William Smith Clark: A Yankee in Hokkaido, consist primarily of photocopies and transcriptions of sections of books, and articles, booklets, and newspaper clippings.

Box 15 contains Subseries 6: Notes for Maki Biography of William Smith Clark, which consists of twelve envelopes of handwritten and typed notes on 4 x 6 index cards, compiled by John Maki for writing his biography of William Smith Clark.

The materials in Boxes 14 and 15 are particularly useful with regard to William Smith Clark's presidency of MAC, his early contacts with Japanese students in Amherst, the floating college, and William Smith Clark's mining venture.

Boxes 16-18 contain Subseries 7: Television, Radio, and Other Audio Visual Materials. The major item is a videotape of a television program broadcast on a Japanese national network on November 3, 1981 (Culture Day, a Japanese national holiday). There are three different video cassettes (VHS, Beta, and 3/4 inch videotape cassettes) of Taishi to Yabō: William Smith Clark no Shōgai (Ideals and Ambition: The Life of William Smith Clark) (folders 76-78). Also included are the Japanese language script of the program (folder 80); Taishi to Yabō: William Smith Clark no Ashiato o Tazunete (Ideals and Ambition: In the Footsteps of William Smith Clark), which is a book length account, including much of the life of William Smith Clark, of the making of the program by the TV crew that filmed it (folder 81); "The Filming in Amherst of the Japanese Television Documentary on the Life of William Smith Clark" by John Maki (folder 82); and correspondence and clippings relating to the program (folders 83-85).

Other materials in Subseries 7 include an audiotape of a radio interview of John Maki on William Smith Clark, an audiotape and a silent film of the tree-planting ceremony at the Clark family grave on May 18, 1973, and videotapes regarding the Massachusetts / Hokkaido Sister State relationship and the WCS Memorial.

Series 5. Hokkaido University-UMass Relations

1877-2003 (bulk1956-1976)

6 boxes, 3.0 linear feet

Series 5 is divided into three subseries: Chronological Record, Summer Seminar 1974, and Books on HU.

Subseries 1: Chronological Record, consists of materials which document the continuing relations of SAC / MAC from the time of Clark's presence in Japan through the growth of each school into a university. The materials reflect exchanges, both formal and informal; influences, especially that of Massachusetts professors on SAC/HU; gifts, visits, and honors through correspondence and memoranda; typescript and printed articles; clippings, press releases, and brochures; mementos, photographs, and pictures; and prepared lists.

In Subseries 2: Summer Seminar 1974, the experience of the seminar is revealed through the journal of Professor Richard Woodbury, as well as in the schedules, lecture notes, participant evaluations, photographs, travel arrangements, souvenirs, memoranda, and printed materials.

Subseries 3: Books on HU, includes early annual reports, 1877-1879; histories of HU in English and Japanese; HU catalogs, 1921-1922 and 1936-1937; a catalog of the holdings in the SAC library, 1888; lists of plants in the HU Botanical Garden; and other books. Also see Subseries 1, folder 9.

Series 6. Duplicates (Selected)

1852-1976 (bulk1852-1879)

2 boxes, 0.75 linear feet

Selected duplicates, mainly from the Hokkaido Official Correspondence and Clark's writings. Other duplicates are often found filed with their counterparts.

Series 7. Artifacts

1973-1974

1 box, 0.25 linear feet

Miscellaneous artifacts associated with the legacy of William Smith Clark.

Series 8. Oversized

1851-1975

2 boxes, 2.5 linear feet

Inventory

Series 1. Biographical Materials

1850-1986

3 boxes, 1.25 linear feet

Subseries 1: Biographical Records

Clark Family Records

Box

Family Record

n.d.

Box 1: 1

List of William Smith Clark's Descendants

1960

Box 1: 1

Originals at Amherst College

Obituary of Mrs. Clark

1917

Box 1: 1

Excerpts from History of the Town of Ashfield

n.d

Box 1: 1

Excerpts from Vital Records of Ashfield

1942

Box 1: 1

Excerpts from The New England Historical and Genealogical Register

1872-1891

Box 1: 1

Finding aid forthe Frank Waterman Stearns Papers at New England Historic Genealogical Society

n.d.

Box 1: 1

Excerpts from William Richards by Samuel Williston

1938

Box 1: 1

Excerpts from Life and Law by Samuel Williston

1940

Box 1: 1

Excerpt from Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Missionary Album re: William Richards family

1969

Box 1: 1

Excerpts from Only One Cummington by Helen H. Foster and William W. Streeter

1974

Box 1: 1

William Smith Clark's biographical data for AC alumni Records

1872

Box 1: 1

See oversize Box 27 for William Smith Clark II's AC graduation certificate, 1921

Obituaries

Amherst Record

Mar 10, 1886

Box 1: 2

J.K. UCHIMURA, "The Missionary Work of William S. Clark, Ph.D., LL.D." Christian Union

Apr 2, 1886

Box 1: 2

Springfield Daily Republican

Mar 10, 1886

Box 1: 2

"Sketches of the Deceased Officers of the College," MAC General Catalogue, 1882-86

1886

Box 1: 2

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Proceedings

1886

Box 1: 2

New England Historical and Genealogical Record, vol. 41, no. 163

Jul 1887

Box 1: 2

Goodell, Henry Hill, "W.S. Clark" typed ms and Amherst Record account

1886

Box 1: 2

Goodell tribute, in Annual Report of MAC

Jan 1887

Box 1: 2

Military Service Records

Military service records from National Archives

1861-1869

Box 1: 3

Letter from Maj. Gen. A.E. Burnside to Maj. Gen. George McClellan recommending William Smith Clark for promotion to brigadier general

Sept 25, 1862

Box 1: 3

21st Regiment

Photocopies taken from Charles F. Wolcottt, History of the Twenty-first Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers (UMass Library Microfilm #2777)

1882

Box 1: 4

Bound typed excerpt from Phineas C. Headley, Massachusetts in the Rebellion

1866

Box 1: 4

Photocopy from Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion Vol. 3 (Regimental Histories)

1959

Box 1: 4

Newspaper Clippings, Civil War

Original clippings and copies of

William Smith Clark's account of battle of Newbern

Mar 16, 1862

Box 1: 5

William Smith Clark's account of battle of Camden

Apr 21, 1862

Box 1: 5

William Smith Clark letter to Rev. Hitchcock

Mar 8, 1862

Box 1: 5

William Smith Clark visit to Amherst, and Sturgis letter re: promotion

1863

Box 1: 5

Erroneous William Smith Clark obituary

n.d.

Box 1: 5

Obituary of William Smith Clark's friend Manross

n.d.

Box 1: 5

21st Regiment reunion

1867

Box 1: 5

Photocopy of item in Carpenter and Morehouse, History of the Town of Amherst

1896

Box 1: 5

Miscellany

Listing as presidential elector, in 1864, Massachusetts Year Book

1895

Box 1: 6

"Moore Laboratory of Chemistry" AC

1929

Box 1: 6

MAC Alumni report to Board of Trustees on William Smith Clark resignation

1879

Box 1: 6

Newspaper clippings, Amherst Record

1875-1880

Box 1: 6

Excerpts from Carpenter and Morehouse, History of the Town of Amherst

1896

Box 1: 6

Harold W. Cary, The University of Massachusetts: A History of One Hundred Years, photocopy of pg. 69

1962

Box 1: 6

William Smith Clark bibliography of speeches and writings

n.d.

Box 1: 6

Letter from Chancellor Joseph Duffy on the commemoration of the centennial of William Smith Clark's death

Feb 7, 1986

Box 1: 6

Program from commemoration

Mar 9, 1986

Box 1: 6

John Maki speech at graveside

Mar 9, 1986

Box 1: 6

Report on the birth of a new Clark from Hokkaido Shimbun (with typed translation)

Jan 7, 1986

Box 1: 6

See oversize Box 27 for newspaper clippings from Amherst Record, New York Times, Boston Globe, New York Tribune, Hampshire and Franklin Express and Springfield Republican1860-1886

Japanese Trees Introduced to the U.S.

Arnold Arboretum records (photocopies)

1877-1885

Box 1: 7

Jackson Dawson record book copy

1874

Box 1: 7

"Work of Arnold Arboretum", Christian Science Monitor

Jun 2, 1919

Box 1: 7

Potter, Dorothy, "First Trees Exported from Japan...", Daily Hampshire Gazette

Mar 3, 1954

Box 1: 7

Blundell, Lyle, "Original Introduction of Japanese Trees by Col. W.S. Clark, 1876, and Dr. William Brooks, 1890"

n.d.

Box 1: 7

"Bibliography on Japanese Trees Introduced into the US by W.S. Clark and W.P. Brooks..."

1974

Box 1: 7

See oversize Box 27 for photograph of page from the log maintained atop Mt. Shasta, with William Smith Clark's signature and article in Japanese (original in Bancroft Library, Univ. of California Berkeley), Jun 16, 1877

Subseries 2: Personal Association Items

William Smith Clark's passport

1850-1852

Box 2: 8

William Smith Clark's Goettingen notebook

1851

Box 2: 9

William Smith Clark's AC catalogue

1855-1856

Box 2: 10

Pictures and sketches sent by William Smith Clark from Germany

(1851?)

Box 2: 11

William Smith Clark's scrapbook

1860, n.d.

Box 2: 12

MAC library poster

n.d.

Box 2: 13

Inventory of Ainu artifacts and other objects brought back from Japan by William Smith Clark

n.d.

Box 2: 14

Lithograph of Commodore Perry at Hakodadi (sic) (Hakodate)

n.d.

Box 2: 15

William Smith Clark's list of Japanese lichens and Japanese phenograms (in Atherton Clark's handwriting)

1878

Box 2: 16

Subseries 3: Photographs and Portraits

William Smith Clark alone

n.d.

Box 3: 17

William Smith Clark's office and classroom at MAC

ca. 1876

Box 3: 18

Family pictures

n.d.

Box 3: 19

The family home

n.d.

Box 3: 20

William Smith Clark, faculty, students and barn at SAC

(1876?), 1880, n.d.

Box 3: 21

Farewell picture, Sapporo

Apr 16, 1877

Box 3: 22

Memorials

n.d.

Box 3: 23

Family scrapbook

1906-

Box 3: 24

Clark with Ainu (copied from Peabody Museum of Salem publication)

n.d.

Box 3: 25

Photographs of "A Pictorial Life of Col. William Clark", exhibit prepared by ŌSAKA Shingo

1961

Box 3: 26

See oversize Box 28 for "The Picture Story of Our Dr. William Smith Clark, from 1826-1876", original paintings by SUNAGANE Takashi from the ŌSAKA Shingo exhibit , 1961

Tree planting ceremony at William Smith Clark grave

May 18, 1973

Box 3: 27

(see also Box 13 for audio tape and 16 mm film of the occasion)

Series 2. Correspondence

1814-1930 (bulk1844-1885)

2 boxes, 1.0 linear feet

Amherst College Student Days

Clark, William Smith: Letter to father

1844 Sept. 21

Box 4: 1

Clark, William Smith: Letter to "Dear Sis"

1844 Oct. 6

Box 4: 1

Clark, William Smith: Letter to family

1844 Oct. 26

Box 4: 1

Clark, William Smith: Letter to "Friend M" (Manross?)

1845 Apr. 3

Box 4: 1

Original at Amherst College

Clark, William Smith: Letter to mother

1845 Sept. 24

Box 4: 1

Clark, William Smith: Letter to father (encl. to mother)

1845 Oct. 10

Box 4: 1

Clark, William Smith: Letter to mother

1845 Nov. 1

Box 4: 1

Clark, William Smith: Letter to sister Hattie

1845 Nov. 17

Box 4: 1

Original at Amherst College

Clark, William Smith: Letter to father

1845 Nov. 19

Box 4: 1

Clark, William Smith: Letter to mother, re: religious conversion

1845 Mar. 16

Box 4: 1

Clark, William Smith: Letter Dr. Hitchcock to William Smith Clark's father, re: religious conversion

1845 Mar. 24

Box 4: 1

Clark, William Smith: Letter to father

1846 Oct. 9

Box 4: 1

Clark, William Smith: Letter to mother from Acworth, NH

1846 Oct. 31

Box 4: 1

Clark, William Smith: Letter to father from Acworth, NH

1846 Nov. 8

Box 4: 1

Clark, William Smith: Letter to Manross (?) from Acworth, NH

1846 Nov. 9

Box 4: 1

Original at Amherst College

Clark, William Smith: Letter to mother from Oxford, MA

1847 Apr. 29

Box 4: 1

Clark, William Smith: Letter to father

1847 May 18

Box 4: 1

Clark, William Smith: Letter to Hattie

1847 June 2

Box 4: 1

Clark, William Smith: Letter to father

1847 July 13

Box 4: 1

Clark, William Smith: Letter to father (21st birthday)

1847 Aug. 5

Box 4: 1

Clark, William Smith: Letter to "Dear Sis"

1847 Aug. 9

Box 4: 1

Clark, William Smith: Letter to mother from New Haven

1847 Sep. 3

Box 4: 1

Clark, William Smith: Letter to father

1847 Nov. 15

Box 4: 1

Clark, William Smith: Letter to father

1848 May 15

Box 4: 1

Clark, William Smith: Letter from "Hammond"

1848 Nov. 2

Box 4: 1

European Student Days

Clark, William Smith: Letter from Manross

1850 Jul 31

Box 4: 2

Clark, William Smith: Letter to father from ship at sea

1850 Sep 17

Box 4: 2

Clark, William Smith: Letter to father from London

1850 Oct 21

Box 4: 2

Clark, William Smith: Letter to father, mother, sisters, from Goettingen

1850 Nov 28

Box 4: 2

Clark, William Smith: Letter to "Sister Sarah"

1851 Jan 4

Box 4: 2

Clark, William Smith: Letter to "My Dear Belle" (original in oversize Box 27)

1851 Jan 8

Box 4: 2

Clark, William Smith: Letter to "Sister Hattie"

1851 Jan 13

Box 4: 2

Clark, William Smith: Letter to father

1851 Jan 25

Box 4: 2

Clark, William Smith: Letter to father

1851 Mar 7

Box 4: 2

Clark, William Smith: Letter to father

1851 Jun 1

Box 4: 2

Original at Amherst College

Clark, William Smith: Letter to "Sister Hattie"

1851 Jun 22

Box 4: 2

Clark, William Smith: Letter to mother

1851 Aug 17

Box 4: 2

Clark, William Smith: Letter to "My dear Belle"

1851 Aug 17

Box 4: 2

Clark, William Smith: Letter to father

1851 Aug 17

Box 4: 2

Clark, William Smith: Letter to "My dear Sarah"

1851 Aug 18

Box 4: 2

Clark, William Smith: Letter to parents, re: career plans

1851 Nov 23

Box 4: 2

Clark, William Smith: Letter to Edwin Hitchcock, Jr.

1851 Nov 26

Box 4: 2

Original at Amherst College

Clark, William Smith: Letter to "My Dear Sis" (Harriet) includes reference to future wife

1852 Feb 29

Box 4: 2

Letter from John William _____? to "My Dearest Klarck", from Dublin

1852 Mar 1

Box 4: 2

Original at Amherst College

Clark, William Smith: Letter to parents re: departure from Goettingen, sending "fine German boy" to Easthampton

1852 May 2

Box 4: 2

Clark, William Smith: Letter to "My Dear Sister Hattie!" from Munich (love to HKRW [Harriet Keopuolani Richards Williston], his future wife)

1852 May 20

Box 4: 2

1853

Clark, William Smith: Letter to parents from Charleston, VA (honeymoon)

1853 May 30

Box 4: 3

Clark, William Smith: Letter to parents from Princeton, IL

853? Jun 22

Box 4: 3

Clark, William Smith: Letter to Alexandrian Society at AC

1853 Oct 27

Box 4: 3

Original at Amherst College

Civil War

Clark, William Smith: Letter to Manross from Camp Lincoln, Worcester, MA

1861 Aug 22

Box 4: 4

Original at Amherst College

Clark, William Smith: Letter to mother from Annapolis

1861 Sep 1

Box 4: 4

Clark, William Smith: Letter to Manross from Annapolis

1861 Sep 16

Box 4: 4

Original at Amherst College

Clark, William Smith: Letter to father from Annapolis

1861 Oct 16

Box 4: 4

Clark, William Smith: Letter to father from Annapolis

1861 Nov 20

Box 4: 4

Clark, William Smith: Letter to President Stearns of AC from Annapolis re: war and reasons for fighting

1861 Dec 21

Box 4: 4

Original at Amherst College

Clark, William Smith: Letter to father from Annapolis

1861 Dec 29

Box 4: 4

Clark, William Smith: Letter to father from Falmouth, VA

1862 Jan 5

Box 4: 4

Clark, William Smith: Letter to father from Norfolk, VA

1862 Jan 10

Box 4: 4

Clark, William Smith: Letter to mother from Hatteras Inlet, NC

1862 Jan 19

Box 4: 4

Clark, William Smith: Letter to father from Roanoke Island, NC

1862 Feb 20

Box 4: 4

Clark, William Smith: Letter to mother from Neuse River, NC

1862 Mar 12

Box 4: 4

Clark, William Smith: Letter to Manross from Newbern, NC re: the battles of Roanoke and Newbern; the death of Lt. Stearns; cannon to AC as a memorial to Stearns

1862 Mar 30

Box 4: 4

Original at Amherst College

Clark, William Smith: Letter to father from Newbern, NC

1862 Apr 1

Box 4: 4

Clark, William Smith: Letter to father from Newbern, NC

1862 Apr 12

Box 4: 4

Clark, William Smith: Letter to mother from Newbern, NC

1862 Apr 17

Box 4: 4

Letter from an unknown writer at AC to "My dear William"

1862 Apr 20

Box 4: 4

Original at Amherst College

Letter from Brig. Gen. Reno to Gov. Andrew recommending William Smith Clark for promotion to Colonel

1862 Apr 28

Box 4: 4

Original at Amherst College

Clark, William Smith: Letter to father from Newbern, NC

1862 May 29

Box 4: 4

Clark, William Smith: Letter to sister Harriet from Newport News, VA

1862 Jul 23

Box 4: 4

Clark, William Smith: Letter to mother from Newport News, VA re: 36th birthday, gratitude to mother, world developments during his lifetime

1862 Jul 31

Box 4: 4

Clark, William Smith: Letter to father from Falmouth, VA

1862 Aug 6

Box 4: 4

Clark, William Smith: Letter to father from Falmouth, VA

1862 Dec 4

Box 4: 4

Clark, William Smith: Letter to father from Falmouth, VA re: survival in Fredrickburg battle, determination to continue "horrid work of war" to put down "pro-slavery rebellion"

1862 Dec 17

Box 4: 4

Clark, William Smith: Letter to Professor Tyler at AC re: denial of story about William Smith Clark's drinking

1863 Jan 16

Box 4: 4

Original at Amherst College

Clark, William Smith: Letter to mother from Falmouth, VA

1863 Jan 20

Box 4: 4

Letter from Brig. Gen. Sturgis to William Smith Clark re: praise for battle conduct, promotion

1863 Feb 4

Box 4: 4

Original at Amherst College

Clark, William Smith: Letter to sister Sarah from Newport News, VA

1863 Mar 10

Box 4: 4

Clark, William Smith: Letter to "Folks-at-home" from Newport News, VA

1863 Mar 24

Box 4: 4

Clark, William Smith: Letter to father from Lexington, KY

1863 Apr 15

Box 4: 4

Clark, William Smith: Letter to Lt. Col. Lewis Richmond re: resignation from Army

1863 Apr 22

Box 4: 4

Original at Amherst College

Clark, William Smith: Letter to father from Cambridge, MA (fragment)

1865 Jan 18

Box 4: 5

MAC Presidency

Identification of William Smith Clark correspondents

undated

Box 4: 6

Clark, William Smith: Letter from John Maconant

undated

Box 4: 6

Clark, William Smith: Letter to Senator Justin Morrill (with typed transcript)

1871 Jul 5

Box 4: 6

Clark, William Smith: Letter from Charles Wolcott Brooks, Japanese consul in San Francisco re: admitting a Japanese student

1871 Sep 1

Box 4: 6

Clark, William Smith: Letter from MORI Arinori, Japanese minister to the US re: info and advice on development of education in Japan

1872 Feb 3

Box 4: 6

Clark, William Smith: Letter to Allen W. Dodge

1872 Apr 15

Box 4: 6

Clark, William Smith: Letter to William P. Brooks

1872 Apr 1

Box 4: 6

Junior class letter protesting selection of commencement speakers

1872 June

Box 4: 6

Clark's response to C.E. Tucker, Secretary, Class of '73

1872 Jun 3

Box 4: 6

Clark, William Smith: Letter to A.W. Dodge (with typed transcript)

1875 Nov 23

Box 4: 6

Clark, William Smith: Letter to Mr. Dodge re: baptism of 1st class at SAC (original on opposite side of item in folder 15, from TANOUCHI, copied by William Smith Clark, Oct 25, 1876)

1877 Oct 31

Box 4: 6

Clark, William Smith: Letter from S. KOJIMA, Japanese official in Hokkaido

1877 Oct 31

Box 4: 6

Clark, William Smith: Letter from HORY (sic) (HORI) Motoi, Japanese official in Hokkaido

1877 Dec 3

Box 4: 6

Clark, William Smith: Letter from YOSHIDA Kiyonari, Japanese minister to Washington re: William Smith Clark to speak on treaty revision for Japan

1878 Jan 14

Box 4: 6

Clark, William Smith: Letter from YOSHIDA Kiyonari

1878 Jan 26

Box 4: 6

Clark, William Smith: Letter from H. SATOW, Hokkaido official

1878 Mar 24

Box 4: 6

Clark, William Smith: Letter from HORI (Japanese original in envelope)

1878 Mar 25

Box 4: 6

Typed copy of William Smith Clark letter to Joseph Hardy NEESIMA

1878 Aug 6

Box 4: 6

Original at Doshisha University

Hokkaido Official Correspondence

Clark, William Smith: Request to Board of Trustees for official leave to go to Hokkaido

1876 Jan 12

Box 4: 7

Clark, William Smith: Letter from Minister YOSHIDA Kiyonari re: compensation

1876 Feb 12

Box 4: 7

Clark, William Smith: Contract envelope

undated

Box 4: 7

Clark, William Smith: Japanese and English versions of contract

1876 Mar 3

Box 4: 7

Japanese and English versions of contract

1876 Mar 3

Box 4: 7

Original at Amherst College

Clark, William Smith: Summary of contract

undated

Box 4: 7

Japanese translations of two William Smith Clark letters to Birdsey Grant Northrup re: proposed appointment to found SAC

undated

Box 4: 7

Original at Amherst College

From KURODA Kiyotaka, Tokyo

1876 Jul 1

Box 4: 8

Original at Amherst College

To YASUDA Sadanori, Tokyo

1876 Jul 5

Box 4: 8

Original at Amherst College

To YASUDA re: permission to travel to Yokohama

1876 Jul 7

Box 4: 8

Original at Amherst College

From YASUDA

1876 Jul 7

Box 4: 8

Original at Amherst College

To YASUDA re: SAC business

1876 Jul 10

Box 4: 8

Original at Amherst College

From YASUDA

1876 Jul 12

Box 4: 8

Original at Amherst College

To YASUDA re: 6 students admitted to SAC

1876 Jul 12

Box 4: 8

Original at Amherst College

To YASUDA

1876 Jul 12

Box 4: 8

Original at Amherst College

To KURODA re: ready to go to Sapporo

1876 Jul 15

Box 4: 8

Original at Amherst College

From KURODA re: invitation to dinner

1876 Jul 22

Box 4: 8

Original at Amherst College

From YASUDA to William Smith Clark at SAC requesting report on silk and cocoons

1876 Aug 11

Box 4: 8

Original at Amherst College

Clark, William Smith: Letter to ZUSHIO (sic) (ZUSHO) "Sapporo Agricultural College-First Term, 1876-77-Daily Routine"

1876 Aug 14

Box 4: 8

Prime Minister SANJO to ZUSHO Hirotake (translation and transliteration)

1876 Aug 25

Box 4: 8

Original at Amherst College

To YASUDA

1876 Aug 25

Box 4: 8

Original at Amherst College

To HORI Motoi: re Chemistry lab plans

1876 Aug 29

Box 4: 8

Original at Amherst College

Clark, William Smith: Letter to KURODA Kiyotaka

1876 Sep 2

Box 4: 9

Clark, William Smith: Sapporo Agricultural College Plan of Organization and Regulations

1876 Sep 2

Box 4: 9

Exchange of letters re: a shipment for William Smith Clark

1876 Sep 2 and 4

Box 4: 9

Original at Amherst College

To KURODA in Tokyo re: improvement of Kaitakushi's work(typed transcript in folder 13)

1876 Sep 8

Box 4: 9

Original at Amherst College

Clark, William Smith: Letter from ZUSHO re: approval of Brooks' appointment

1876 Sep 11

Box 4: 9

Another version of ZUSHO's letter

1876 Sep 11

Box 4: 9

Originals at Hokkaido University

To ZUSHO(typed transcript in folder 13)

1876 Sep 12

Box 4: 9

Original at Amherst College

To KURODA re: scheme for an American colony in Hokkaido(typed transcript in folder 13)

1876 Sep 12

Box 4: 9

Original at Amherst College

To ZUSHO re: a list of seeds for Brooks to bring(typed transcript in folder 13)

1876 Sep 12

Box 4: 9

Original at Amherst College

Clark, William Smith: Letter from KURODA re: transfer of farm to SAC and William Smith Clark's appointment as director

1876 Sep 12

Box 4: 9

Another version of letter from KURODA

1876 Sep 13

Box 4: 9

Original at Amherst College

To KURODA(typed transcript in folder 13)

1876 Sep 13

Box 4: 9

Original at Amherst College

To ZUSHO re: salting beef(typed transcript in folder 13)

1876 Sep 13

Box 4: 9

Original at Amherst College

To ZUSHO re: packing mess beef(typed transcript in folder 13)

1876 Sep 13

Box 4: 9

Original at Amherst College

Clark, William Smith: Letter to ZUSHO re: assignment of SAC officers

1876 Sep 14

Box 4: 9

To KURODA re: S. HORI(typed transcript in folder 13)

1876 Sep 14

Box 4: 9

Original at Amherst College

To KURODA re: S. KOJIMA(typed transcript in folder 13)

1876 Sep 15

Box 4: 9

Original at Amherst College

To ZUSHO re: dismissal of students(typed transcript in folder 13)

1876 Sep 15

Box 4: 9

Original at Amherst College

List of vehicles and implements for SAC farm(typed transcript in folder 13)

1876 Sep 17

Box 4: 9

Original at Amherst College

To KURODA re: S. HORI(typed transcript in folder 13)

1876 Sep 19

Box 4: 9

Original at Amherst College

Clark, William Smith: Letter from KURODA re: college farm

1876 Sep 19

Box 4: 9

To KURODA re: college barn(typed transcript in folder 13)

1876 Sep 20

Box 4: 9

Original at Amherst College

From KURODA re: HORI appointment(typed transcript in folder 13)

1876 Sep 21

Box 4: 9

Original at Amherst College

To KURODA re: more land for farm(typed transcript in folder 13)

1876 Sep 22

Box 4: 9

Original at Amherst College

Clark, William Smith: Letter from KURODA approving more land

1876 Sep 23

Box 4: 9

Another version of approval

1876 Sep 23

Box 4: 9

Originals at Hokkaido University?

To HORI Motoi listing needs for SAC farm

1876 Sep 27

Box 4: 9

Original at Amherst College

To HORI Motoi requesting barn construction; William Smith Clark authority(typed transcript in folder 13)

1876 Sep 29

Box 4: 9

Original at Amherst College

From HORI Motoi re: barn construction

1876 Oct 6

Box 4: 10

Original at Amherst College

Clark, William Smith: Letter from HORI re: college farm plan

1876 Oct 9

Box 4: 10

To ZUSHO re: college barn

1876 Oct 11

Box 4: 10

Original at Amherst College

From HORI re: botanical garden

1876 Oct 13

Box 4: 10

Original at Amherst College

To YASUDA in Tokyo re: umbrella pine seeds and William Smith Clark's delight in Hokkaido

1876 Oct 13

Box 4: 10

Original at Amherst College

From HORI re: Ginseng plants

1876 Oct 17

Box 4: 10

Original at Amherst College

From ZUSHO

1876 Oct 17

Box 4: 10

Original at Amherst College

From KURODA in Tokyo

1876 Oct 19

Box 4: 10

Original at Amherst College

From HORI re: college barn

1876 Oct 21

Box 4: 10

Original at Amherst College

William Smith Clark's endorsement of student plan for literary society(typed transcript in folder 13)

1876 Nov 1

Box 4: 10

Original at Amherst College

Constitution and bylaws of Kaishikisha (Enlightenment Society)

undated

Box 4: 10

Original at Amherst College

From ZUSHO re: fodder plan

1876 Nov 7

Box 4: 10

Original at Amherst College

Clark, William Smith: Letter from ZUSHO re: literary society

1876 Nov 7

Box 4: 10

To ZUSHO re: care of mulberry grove(typed transcript in folder 13)

1876 Nov 7

Box 4: 10

Original at Amherst College

To HORI re: irrigation water(typed transcript in folder 13)

1876 Nov 7

Box 4: 10

Original at Amherst College

To ZUSHO re: fodder plan(typed transcript in folder 13)

1876 Nov 8

Box 4: 10

Original at Amherst College

To ZUSHO re: failure of a student(typed transcript in folder 13)

1876 Nov 9

Box 4: 10

Original at Amherst College

From ZUSHO re: fodder plan

1876 Nov 10

Box 4: 10

Original at Amherst College

From YASUDA in Tokyo

1876 Nov 14

Box 4: 10

Original at Amherst College

To HORI re: sugar beet plant seeds for experimental planting(typed transcript in folder 13)

1876 Nov 15

Box 4: 10

Original at Amherst College

From HORI re: sugar beets

1876 Nov 20

Box 4: 10

Original at Amherst College

To HORI re: the cost of sugar beet seed(typed transcript in folder 13)

1876 Nov 21

Box 4: 10

Original at Amherst College

Typed copy of temperance pledge and request for Bible instruction

1876 Nov 28 and Dec 19

Box 4: 10

Original at Amherst College

Examination schedule

1876 Dec 23

Box 4: 10

Original at Amherst College

From HORI re: present of red crape

1876 Dec 28

Box 4: 10

Original at Amherst College

To HORI re: red crape

1876 Dec 28

Box 4: 10

Original at Amherst College

From KURODA in Tokyo re: canned salmon

1877 Jan 10

Box 4: 11

Original at Amherst College

From KURODA in Tokyo re: canned fish and meat

1877 Jan 11

Box 4: 11

Original at Amherst College

To ZUSHO re: fish manure order(typed transcript in folder 13)

1877 Jan 12

Box 4: 11

Original at Amherst College

To ZUSHO re: college farm budget(typed transcript in folder 13)

1877 Jan 23

Box 4: 11

Original at Amherst College

To KURODA re: canned salmon(typed transcript in folder 13)

1877 Feb 2

Box 4: 11

Original at Amherst College

To M. YAMADA re: detailed scheme for Hokkaido development(typed transcript in folder 13)

1877 Mar 8

Box 4: 11

Original at Amherst College

To ZUSHO re: recommendations for SAC operations after departure(typed transcript in folder 13)

1877 Mar 13

Box 4: 11

Original at Amherst College

From ZUSHO re: departure

1877 Mar 15

Box 4: 11

Original at Amherst College

To ZUSHO re: departure

1877 Mar 17

Box 4: 11

Original at Amherst College

To ZUSHO re: library location

1877 Mar 17

Box 4: 11

Original at Amherst College

To HORI re: SANADA Bunkichi(typed transcript in folder 13)

1877 Mar 17

Box 4: 11

Original at Amherst College

To HORI re: preparation for leaving(typed transcript in folder 13)

1877 Mar 22

Box 4: 11

Original at Amherst College

To HORI re: building(typed transcript in folder 13)

1877 Mar 22

Box 4: 11

Original at Amherst College

To H. SATOW re: SAC annual report(typed transcript in folder 13)

1877 Mar 24

Box 4: 11

Original at Amherst College

To ZUSHO re: SAC annual report(typed transcript in folder 13)

1877 Mar 26

Box 4: 11

Original at Amherst College

Memorandum of bills approved by William Smith Clark Oct 17, 1876-Mar 31, 1877(typed transcript in folder 13)

1877 Apr

Box 4: 11

Original at Amherst College

Clark, William Smith: Letter from HORI re: reports on salmon and herring fisheries on return to US

1877 Apr 6

Box 4: 11

To ZUSHO re: work for SAC after return to US(typed transcript in folder 13)

1877 Apr 7

Box 4: 11

Original at Amherst College

Clark, William Smith: Letter to HORI re: fisheries

1877 Apr 7

Box 4: 11

Clark, William Smith: Letter from HORI re: fisheries

1877 Apr 9

Box 4: 11

Clark, William Smith: Letter from ZUSHO (warm letter of thanks) English translation

1877 Apr 14

Box 4: 11

To ZUSHO re: letter of thanks(typed transcript in folder 13)

1877 Apr 14

Box 4: 11

Original at Amherst College

Clark, William Smith: Letter from ZUSHO re: work after SAC

1877 Apr 15

Box 4: 11

From ZUSHO from Nanae re: development of Hokkaido transportation routes(typed transcript in folder 13)

1877 Apr 22

Box 4: 11

Original at Amherst College

Clark, William Smith: Letter from KURODA in Tokyo re: gift of bronze vases and thanks

1877 May 21

Box 4: 11

To KURODA re: travel funds

1877 May 21

Box 4: 11

Original at Amherst College

Clark, William Smith: Letter from KURODA re: exchange of gifts

1877 May 21

Box 4: 11

From NISHIMURA Sadaaki re: additional work on return to the US

1877 May 22

Box 4: 11

Original at Amherst College

Clark, William Smith: Letter from KURODA re: travel expenses

1877 May 22

Box 4: 11

To R. YAMANOCHI re: distribution of SAC first annual report

1877 May 22

Box 4: 11

Original at Amherst College

To KURODA re: thanks and appreciation

1877 May 22

Box 4: 11

Original at Amherst College

Hokkaido Official Correspondence, Continued Work for SAC After Return to the U.S.

Report on Columbia River salmon industry

1877 Jun 29

Box 4: 12

Original at Amherst College

To KURODA from San Francisco re: salmon

1877 Jun 30

Box 4: 12

Original at Amherst College

From YASUDA Sadanori in Tokyo re: annual report and salmon report

1877 Aug 25

Box 4: 12

Original at Amherst College

From KURODA re: exchange of gifts

1877 Sep 14

Box 4: 12

Original at Amherst College

To KURODA, a long friendly letter

1877 Oct 26

Box 4: 12

Original at Amherst College

To YASUDA Sadanori re: silk and cocoon

1877 Oct 27

Box 4: 12

Original at Amherst College

From S. KOJIMA in Sapporo re: news of Hokkaido, SAC and Japan

1877 Oct 31

Box 4: 12

Original at Amherst College

From HORI re: report on fish oil and fertilizer

1877 Dec 3

Box 4: 12

Original at Amherst College

To HORI re: salmon fishing, other fisheries(typed transcript in folder 13)

1877 Dec 19

Box 4: 12

Original at Amherst College

To H. SATOW in Hokkaido re: wood pulp; two pamphlets on fish and fish products, fishing development

1878 Jan 18

Box 4: 12

Original at Amherst College

From YOSHIDA Kiyonari in Washington re: payment for materials ordered by William Smith Clark fro SAC

1878 Jan 26

Box 4: 12

Original at Amherst College

Front binding, title page and inscription of Bible presented by William Smith Clark to SAC

1878 Feb 1

Box 4: 12

Original at Amherst College

To HORI re: completed reports, items shipped, selection of others, unequal treaties

1878 Feb 3

Box 4: 12

Original at Amherst College

To HORI re: dispatch of reports

1878 Feb 15

Box 4: 12

Original at Amherst College

From H. SATOW re: fishing

1878 Mar 24

Box 4: 12

Original at Amherst College

From HORI

1878 Mar 25

Box 4: 12

Original at Amherst College

Receipt for books bought and sent to SAC by William Smith Clark

1878 Jun 22

Box 4: 12

Original at Amherst College

To YASUDA re: canned salmon, burning of capitol at Sapporo

1879 Mar 17

Box 4: 12

Original at Amherst College

To KURODA re: Hokkaido experience

1879 Oct 15

Box 4: 12

Original at Amherst College

To KURODA re: purchased cane seed, offer to return to Japan, indemnity fund

1880 Apr 1

Box 4: 12

Original at Amherst College

From YOSHIDA Kiyohari in Washington to William Wheeler re: difficulty of material ordered

1880 Sep 17

Box 4: 12

Original at Amherst College

Hokkaido Official Correspondence, Transcripts of Letters in Japan

Typescripts of those letters belonging to HU from William Smith Clark to Japanese officials

1876-1877

Box 4: 13

To KUROIWA

1879 Mar 11

Box 4: 13

Original at Amherst College

To UCHIDA

1883 Dec 25

Box 4: 13

Original at Amherst College

Hokkaido Family Correspondence

Birthday letter from daughters in Amherst, probably in Mrs. Clark's handwriting

1876 Jul 3

Box 4: 14

Clark, William Smith: Letter to Mrs. S.W. Leete (sister Belle) re: description of Sapporo and living quarters, etc. (with typed copy)

1876 Aug 5

Box 4: 14

Clark, William Smith: Letter to "Capt. William B. Churchill; My dear brother" (brother-in-law) re: Bibles for students, conversion of Japanese to Christianity in his quarters, (with typed copy)

1876 Aug 5

Box 4: 14

Clark, William Smith: Letter to Hubert Lyman Clark re: burglar alarm, pictures and descriptions of Ainu, opening of SAC

1876 Aug 20

Box 4: 14

Clark, William Smith: Letter to Hubert Lyman Clark re: expedition

1876 Nov 5

Box 4: 14

Clark, William Smith: Letter to Capt. William B. Churchill re: religious work at SAC, progress of SAC, his happiness with his work, (with typed copy)

1876 Nov 19

Box 4: 14

Clark, William Smith: Letter to Hubert Lyman Clark(William Smith Clark sketches, comments about Japanese life)

1877 Jan 6

Box 4: 14

Clark, William Smith: Letter to daughter, Bertha Clark (original in oversize Box 27)

1877 Feb 12

Box 4: 14

Typed copies of letters to wife

a) Philadelphia on eve of departure

May 21, 1876

Box 4: 14

b) San Francisco, descriptions of city and Palace Hotel

May 30, 1876

Box 4: 14

c) San Francisco, visit to UC

Jun 1, 1876

Box 4: 14

d) Shipboard, re: ship and passengers, studying Japanese

Jun 5, 1876

Box 4: 14

e) Tokyo, re: first visit with KURODA

Jul 1, 1876

Box 4: 14

f) Tokyo, people and sights, July 4 party, Japanese music

Jul 5, 1876

Box 4: 14

g) Tokyo re: dinner with MORIs and meeting with leading Japanese, receipt of Bibles for Sapporo, description of Emperor Meiji

Jul 23, 1876

Box 4: 14

h) Sapporo re: discussion with KURODA over use of Bible

Sep/Oct 1876

Box 4: 14

i) Sapporo re: SAC opening, KURODA, Ainu

Aug 14, 1876

Box 4: 14

j) Sapporo re: enthusiasm for work and KURODA, receipt of college farm, projects for the Kaitakushi

Sep 10, 1876

Box 4: 14

k) Sapporo re: extent of responsibilities, comments on SAC

Oct 22, 1876

Box 4: 14

l) Sapporo

Nov 7, 1876

Box 4: 14

m) Sapporo, re: living quarters, daily routine, Sunday Bible class

Nov 21, 1876

Box 4: 14

n) Sapporo, re: arrival of Brooks, request that William Smith Clark stay 3 more years, signing of Covenant of Believers in Jesus

Mar 5, 1877

Box 4: 14

o) Sapporo, re: farewell party

Apr 14, 1877

Box 4: 14

p) Nagasaki, re: city, visit to army hospital

May 2, 1877

Box 4: 14

q) Shipboard, re: Kobe, Osaka, Kyoto, farewell

Jun 5, 1877

Box 4: 14

r) "A note from the top of Mt. Shasta"

Jun 16, 1877

Box 4: 14

s) San Francisco, re: trip to Oregon, Mt. Shasta climb

Jun 28, 1877

Box 4: 14

Correspondence with SAC students and others

Clark, William Smith: Letter from TANOUCHI, copied by William Smith Clark (opposite side is 'To Mr. Dodge re: baptism of 1st class at SAC, Oct 31,1877', folder 6)

1876 Oct 25

Box 4: 15

Clark, William Smith: Letter from TANOUCHI

1877 Apr 16

Box 4: 15

Clark, William Smith: Letter from S. SATŌ, copied by William Smith Clark

1877 Jun 4

Box 4: 15

Clark, William Smith: Letter from UCHIDA

1877 Jul 7

Box 4: 15

Clark, William Smith: Letter from ŌSHIMA

1877 Jul 7

Box 4: 15

Clark, William Smith: Letter from TANOUCHI

1877 Jul 8

Box 4: 15

Clark, William Smith: Letter to S. SATŌ

1877 Aug 2

Box 4: 15

Clark, William Smith: Letter from S. SATŌ

1877 Oct 21

Box 4: 15

Clark, William Smith: Letter from ARAKAWA

1877 Nov 23

Box 4: 15

Clark, William Smith: Letter from WATASE

1877 Dec 2

Box 4: 15

Clark, William Smith: Letter from K. ŌNO

1877 Dec 5

Box 4: 15

Clark, William Smith: Letter from K. ŌNO, with grade list

1878 Jan 5

Box 4: 15

Clark, William Smith: Letter from KUROIWA

1878 Jan 19

Box 4: 15

Clark, William Smith: Letter from TANOUCHI

1879 Mar 4

Box 4: 15

Clark, William Smith: Letter from UCHIDA

1880 Mar 20

Box 4: 15

Clark, William Smith: Letter from MIYABE

1880 Jul 11

Box 4: 15

Clark, William Smith: Letter from SAKUMA

1880 Jul 12

Box 4: 15

Clark, William Smith: Letter from UCHIDA

1880 Dec 2

Box 4: 15

Clark, William Smith: Letter from UCHIDA

1881 May 25

Box 4: 15

Clark, William Smith: Letter from UCHIDA

1881 Jul 21

Box 4: 15

Clark, William Smith: Letter from UCHIDA

1882 Jan 10

Box 4: 15

Clark, William Smith: Letter from NISHIMURA

1882 Jul 3

Box 4: 15

Clark, William Smith: Letter from ARAKAWA

1883 Sep 7

Box 4: 15

Typescripts of letters in folder15, plus three others

1876-1883

Typescripts

1876-1883

Box 4: 15a

Miscellaneous

Clark, William Smith: Letter from Dr. Peter Bryant (William Cullen Bryant's father) to Dr. Atherton Clark

1814 Aug 12

Box 4: 16

Clark, William Smith: Letter to son Hubert

undated

Box 4: 16

Clark, William Smith: Letter from US Senator H.L. Dawes of MA

1879 Feb 24

Box 4: 16

To William P. Brooks in Sapporo

1884 Nov 27

Box 4: 16

Original at Amherst College

To William P. Brooks in Sapporo

1885 Apr 7

Box 4: 16

Original at Amherst College

Atherton Clark to Mr. Hawley at MAC

1930 Jun 5

Box 4: 16

NEESIMA. Joseph

Letters from William Smith Clark to Jos. NEESIMA: photos from originals at Doshisha University

1878-1882

Box 4: 17

Original at Doshisha University

Original letters

Originals from the list for Box 4, unless noted as oversize, which are in Box 27. The folders in Box 5 correspond to those in Box 4 with the exception of folder 15a and folder 17, which are only in Box 4

Box 5: 1-16

Series 3. Writings

1848-1879, 1993

1.5 boxes, 0.75 linear feet

The Alchemist, AC commencement oration

1848

Box 6: 1

On Metallic Meteorites, Ph.D. dissertation

1852

Box 6: 2

Report on Horses

1860, 1861

Box 6: 3

The Work and the Wants of the College

1868

Box 6: 4

Rules for the Agricultural Department, MAC

1869

Box 6: 5

Cultivation of Cereals, Report presented by William Smith Clark to the Board of Agriculture, written by Wm. Knowlton for the committee

1869

Box 6: 6

Translation by William Smith Clark of The Blowpipe Manual by Theodore Scheerer

1869

Box 6: 7

Professional Education the Present Want of Agriculture and Nature's Mode of Distributing Plants

1871

Box 6: 8

The Relations of Botany to Agriculture

1873

Box 6: 9

The Circulation of Sap in Plants

1874

Box 6: 10

A Lecture on the Flow of Sap and the Power of Plant Growth

1875

Box 6: 11

Observations on the Phenomena of Plant Life

1875

Box 6: 11

Photographic negative of lithograph of squash experiment

1875

Box 6: 11

Atherton Clark's copy of Observations on the Phenomena of Plant Life

1875

Box 6: 12

Proceedings at the Centennial Celebration of the Battle of Lexington (Clark's address, pg. 82, was apparently not given at the dinner-see note on pg. 81)

1875

Box 6: 13

"First Annual Report of SAC"

1877

Box 6: 14

Copy of Covenant of Believers in Jesus

1877

Box 6: 15

See oversize Box 27 for original Covenant of Believers in Jesus1877

The Agriculture of Japan

1879

Box 6: 16

The Collected Papers of William Smith Clark, edited by Tamaki YAMAMOTO

1993

Box 7: 17

Series 4. Materials about William Smith Clark

1858-1996

11.5 boxes, 5.0 linear feet

Subseries 1: Correspondence About William Smith Clark

Correspondence

1914, 1919

Box 7: 1

Correspondence

1940-1951

Box 7: 2

Correspondence

1959-1960

Box 7: 3

Correspondence

1973-1974

Box 7: 4

Correspondence

1975-

Box 7: 5

William Smith Clark Association

(1972-1977?)

Box 7: 6

Subseries 2: Reminiscences and Biographical Sketches

America-Japan Society of Hokkaido, "Boys, Be Ambitious"

1956

Box 8: 7

Amherst Record, "Prominent Men of Amherst, no. 7, William Smith Clark"

1871

Box 8: 8

Amherst Record, "Amherst Through the Years" 100 years ago

Mar 6, 1976

Box 8

Partial bibliography of materials about William Smith Clark (in Japanese)

n.d.

Box 8: 9

Bowker, William Henry, The Old Guard; the Famous 'Faculty of Four'; the Mission and the Future of the College; Its Debt to Amherst College, Harvard College, and Other Institutions, read at 40th anniversary of opening of MAC

1907

Box 8: 10

Dedication of Stockbridge Hall, MAC

Oct 29, 1915

Box 8: 10

Excerpt of Bowker's 1907 speech reprinted

1970

Box 8: 10

See RG-3/1-1905 Brooks, William P., Box 1, for Brooks, William P. "To the Memory of William Smith Clark" n.d.

Campbell, Alexander, "Hokkaido: The New Frontier," photocopy of chapter from The Heart of Japan

1961

Box 8: 11

Atherton Clark

Corr., Atherton Clark to Wm. Elliot Griffis re: William Smith Clark

1918

Box 8: 12

Crowley, Dennis M., biographical sketch of Atherton Clark in The Alumni Bulletin

1942

Box 8: 12

William Smith Clark II

"Impressions of a Newcomer"

1921

Box 8: 13

Address at Sapporo for the 80th anniversary ceremony of SAC

Sep 15, 1956

Box 8: 13

"Glimpses of Japan from a Family Album", Japan Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 2

1958

Box 8: 13

Clippings, miscellaneous

1959-

Box 8: 14

See oversize Box 27 for early clippings, 1860-1882

Ashfield

Greenfield Recorder, "Ashfield Native a Hero"

Nov 5, 1981

Box 8: 15

Ashfield Historical Society Newsletter

1983

Box 8: 15

Cornman, Martin E., Bound by Vision Alone: Two Clarks from Ashfield, Massachusetts

1984

Box 8: 15

Creech, John L., article, "Highlights of Ornamental Plant Introduction in the United States"

1974

Box 8: 16

Cutter, John A., "William Smith Clark, 1826-86"

1916

Box 8: 17

Dictionary of American Biography, vol. 4, "Clark, William Smith"

n.d.

Box 8: 18

Doran, Bill, in Alumnus re: Harold Alley on Mr. Wallace's recollections

1956

Box 8: 19

Doshisha

Annual History of Doshisha, sketch and small photo, pg. 62

1975

Box 8: 20

The Doshisha

1988

Box 8: 20

Flint, Linda J., article for The Alumnus, "The Great Experiment--UMass's Pioneer Decade"

1977

Box 8: 21

Guest, Robert H., "The Rise and Fall of an Amherst Immortal", in Amherst

1983

Box 8: 22

Hoppo Bungei, vol. 6, no. 7; no. 108

1973, 1974

Box 8: 23

Kozlowski, Theodore

"His Work Lives in Trees", Horticulture

1956

Box 8: 24

Abridged version of above, in Amherst Journal Record

n.d.

Box 8: 24

William Smith Clark, Pioneer Plant Pathologist

n.d.

Box 8: 24

Maki, John, "William Smith Clark, 1826-1886, Scholar, Solider..." for William Smith Clark society

1987

Box 8: 25

Maki, John, "William Smith Clark, A Pioneer in Japanese-American Relations", address delivered at centennial of William Smith Clark's trip to Japan; also a press release and the chancellor's invitation

1976

Box 8: 26

Maki, John, lecture (in Japanese and English), "Clark-sensei: The Great Achievement in Hokkaido", delivered at the centennial of the founding of Hokkaido University

1976

Box 8: 27

Massachusetts-Hokkaido Affiliation Committee, "A Memoir in Honor of Dr. William Smith Clark, Published in 1962 as a Contribution to the University of Massachusetts Centennial Year Celebration"

1962

Box 8: 28

Barbara Zalenski 'copy' of above with errors and omissions, but adding a transcription of a Mack Drake letter not in the 1962 version

1966

Box 8: 28

Barbara Zalenski article, "Hands Across the Sea", Greenfield Recorder-Gazette

Aug 20, 1966

Box 8: 28

MIYABE Kingo, "William Smith Clark" Japanese original and translation

1922

Box 8: 29

Lee, Douglas, "Japan's Last Frontier: Hokkaido" in National Geographic, vol. 157, no. 1

1980

Box 8: 30

New Prince English Course, "Boys, Be Ambitious", pp. 70-76

1981

Box 8: 31

ŌSAKA Shingo, memoir and essays

n.d.

Box 8: 32

ŌSHIMA Masatake

"Reminiscences of Dr. William Smith Clark", Japan Christian Intelligencer vol. 1, no. 2

1926

Box 8: 33

"Professor Clark" from Professor Clark and his Disciples, dictated to eldest son, ŌSHIMA Masamitsu

1946

Box 8: 33

ŌTA, Y., "William Smith Clark and Japan: with special reference to his missionary work"

1978

Box 8: 34

Penhallow, David P., "William Smith Clark: His Place as a Scientist and his Relationship to the Development of Scientific Agriculture" Science vol. 27, no. 683, pp. 172-180, address delivered at opening of Clark Hall, MAC, Oct 2, 1907

1908

Box 9: 35

Rowland, Rev. George M., address

1912

Box 9: 36

SATŌ Masahiko, "Clark's Personal Letters"

1984

Box 9: 37

SEKI Hideshi, article in Japanese, and English translation

1983

Box 9: 38

SUZUKI Zenko, address to Japan Society

1981

Box 9: 39

Tyler, John M. and Penhallow, D.P., dedication of Clark Hall, The College Signal article and typescript

1907

Box 9: 40

UCHIMURA, "Letters of William Smith Clark and his Pupils", transl. Naoki ŌNISHI, The Uchimura Study, no. 13, 14, and 15

1979-1980

Box 9: 41

US Department of Agriculture, "The Japanese Flowering Cherry Trees of Washington, DC"

1977

Box 9: 42

YAMANAKA Kei, articles in Japanese

Hokkaido University Library Bulletin

1976

Box 9: 43

Hokkaido Times

1976

Box 9: 43

Kogaku to Seibutsu

1976

Box 9: 43

ITŌ Hidegorō, Institute for Democratic Education, monograph in Japanese, Kurāku hakushi to Sapporo Nōgakkō (Dr. Clark and the Sapporo Agricultural School)

(1965?)

Box 9: 44

"William Smith Clark: In Commemoration of the Centennial of his Death"

1986

Box 9: 45

"Clark to Be Commemorated" Campus Chronicle

Feb 28, 1986

Box 9: 45

Browne, Patrick, "Col. W.S. Clark: Father of Two Universities"

1994

Box 9: 46

Subseries 3: Books

Hokkaido Prefectural Government, Foreign Pioneers

1968

Box 10: 47

Hokkaido Prefectural Government, Foreign Pioneers (photocopies)

1968

Box 10: 48

The Kaitakushi and its Foreign Employees, Advisors, and other Foreigners, A List of Correspondence 1871-1882

1983

Box 10: 49

KAWABATA, ŌNISHI, and NISHIDE, W.S. Clark's Letters from Japan to his Family

1987

Box 10: 50

Maki, John, Kurāku: Sono Eikō to Zasetsu (Clark: His Glory and Collapse or William Smith Clark: A Yankee in Hokkaido)

1978

Box 10: 51

ŌNISHI Naoki, The Correspondence of William Smith Clark and his Japanese Students

1986

Box 10: 52

ŌSAKA Shingo, Kurāku Sensei Shoden (Life of Dr. Clark)

1956

Box 10: 53

ŌSHIMA Masatake, Kurāku Sensei to Sono Deshitachi (Dr. Clark and his Students)

1943

Box 10: 54

ŌTA Yūzō, Kurāku no Ichinen: The Japanese Experience of William Smith Clark

1979

Box 10: 55

ŌTSUKI Tōhoku, Shōsetsu Sapporo Nōgakkō (fiction)

1971

Box 11: 56

YAMAGUCHI Tetsuo, History of the University of Hokkaido, 1876-1976

1976

Box 11: 57

Subseries 4: Maki Manuscript

Maki, John, "The Writing of William Smith Clark: A Yankee in Hokkaido"

1982

Box 12: 58

Review of William Smith Clark: A Yankee in Hokkaido by J.F. Howes from The American Historical Review, vol. 85, no. 3, June 1980, pp. 695-697

1980

Box 12: 59

Maki, John, WCS: A Yankee in Hokkaido (xerox of typescript-part 1)

n.d.

Box 12: 60a

Maki, John, William Smith Clark: A Yankee in Hokkaido (xerox of typescript-part 2)

n.d.

Box 12: 60b

Maki, John, William Smith Clark: A Yankee in Hokkaido (xerox of typescript-part 3)

n.d.

Box 12: 60c

Maki, John, William Smith Clark: A Yankee in Hokkaido (xerox of typescript-part 4)

n.d.

Box 12: 60d

Lending copy of xerox of typescript of William Smith Clark: A Yankee in Hokkaido by John Maki (part 1)

n.d.

Box 12: 60e

Lending copy of xerox of typescript of William Smith Clark: A Yankee in Hokkaido by John Maki (part 2)

n.d.

Box 12: 60f

Lending copy of xerox of typescript of William Smith Clark: A Yankee in Hokkaido by John Maki (part 3)

n.d.

Box 12: 60g

Lending copy of xerox of typescript of William Smith Clark: A Yankee in Hokkaido by John Maki (part 4)

n.d

Box 12: 60h

Computer discs of William Smith Clark: A Yankee in Hokkaido readable in MS Word

n.d.

Box 13: 61

Maki, John, William Smith Clark: A Yankee in Hokkaido (finished book)

1996

Box 13: 62a

Maki, John, William Smith Clark: A Yankee in Hokkaido (finished book-lending copy)

1996

Box 13: 62b

Subseries 5: Background Materials for Maki Biography of William Smith Clark

Amherst College Years

1858-1976, n.d.

Box 14: 63

"Letters from a Freshman in the 'Forties" from Amherst Graduates' Quarterly, vol. 19, Aug 1930

1930

Box 14: 64

Early Years of MAC

1860-1979, n.d.

Box 14: 65

MAC victory in first regatta of National Rowing Association

1871-1975, n.d.

Box 14: 66

William Smith Clark's early contacts with Japan

1871-1880

Box 14: 67

SAC

1876-1951, n.d.

Box 14: 68

Reports of William Smith Clark lectures in Japan

1877-1878

Box 14: 69

William Smith Clark and MAC problems

1877-1885, n.d.

Box 14: 70

Floating college

1877-1880, n.d.

Box 14: 71

Mining venture

1879-1885, n.d.

Box 14: 72

Declining years

1882-1885

Box 14: 73

On the phrase "Boys, Be Ambitious" (in Japanese)

1972

Box 14: 74

Subseries 6: Notes for Maki Biography of William Smith Clark

Twelve envelopes containing Maki's notes on 4 x 6 index cards

1) Miscellaneous references to William Smith Clark

n.d.

Box 15: 75

2) Relatives and others associated with William Smith Clark

n.d.

Box 15: 75

3) Obituaries and biographical sketches

n.d.

Box 15: 75

4) AC

n.d.

Box 15: 75

5) Civil War

n.d.

Box 15: 75

6) Meetings of MAC Board of Trustees

n.d.

Box 15: 75

7) MAC Presidency Years

n.d.

Box 15: 75

8) MAC Japanese Students and Japanese and Chinese residents in Amherst area

n.d.

Box 15: 75

9) Last Years at MAC and Floating College

n.d.

Box 15: 75

10) Clark and Bothwell

n.d.

Box 15: 75

11) Real Estate and Wills

n.d.

Box 15: 75

12) Bibliographical References

n.d.

Box 15: 75

Subseries 7: Television, Radio, and Other Audio-Visual Materials

TV documentary Ideals and Ambition: The Life of William Smith Clark Hokkaido Broadcasting Co., English version (two copies, VHS)

1981

Box 16: 76

TV Documentary Taishi to Yabō: William Smith Clark no Shōgai (Ideals and Ambition: The Life of William Smith Clark) Hokkaido Broadcasting Co., Japanese version (Beta)

1981

Box 16: 77

TV Documentary Taishi to Yabō: William Smith Clark no Shōgai (Ideals and Ambition: The Life of William Smith Clark) Hokkaido Broadcasting Co., Japanese version (two copies, one defective?) inch videotape

1981

Box 16: 78

Two audio cassettes of preliminary version of Maki commentary on Taishi to Yabō: William Smith Clark no Shōgai

1981

Box 17: 79

Script in Japanese of TV documentary Taishi to Yabō: William Smith Clark no Shōgai (Ideals and Ambition: The Life of William Smith Clark)

1981

Box 17: 80

Taishi to Yabō: William Smith Clark no Ashiato o Tazunete (Ideals and Ambition: in the footsteps of William Smith Clark), a book about the filming of the TV documentary

1981

Box 17: 81

Maki, John, "The Filming in Amherst of the Japanese Television Documentary on the Life of William Smith Clark"

1982

Box 17: 82

Correspondence relating to the Japanese television documentary on William Smith Clark

1980-1981

Box 17: 83

Greenfield Recorder-Gazette article on filming of 1966 TV documentary on William Smith Clark

1966

Box 17: 84

Clippings on filming in Amherst area of Japanese TV documentary

1981

Box 17: 85

Radio interview with John Maki re: William Smith Clark

1976

Box 17: 86

Audiotape and 16mm silent movie film of May 18, 1973 tree planting ceremony at William Smith Clark grave

1973

Box 17: 87

Press release in English and Japanese re: tree planting ceremony

1973

Box 17: 87

Videotape, Mass/Hokkaido Sister-State News from Hokkaido Cultural Broadcast

1989

Box 17: 88

Videotape, "Friendship Forever" Sister-State Ceremony Sapporo, Japan

1990

Box 18: 89

Videotape, William Smith Clark Memorial Groundbreaking UMass Amherst

1990

Box 18: 90

Videotape, William Smith Clark Memorial Garden Dedication

1991

Box 18: 91

Series 5. Hokkaido University-UMass Relations

1877-2003 (bulk1956-1976)

6 boxes, 3.0 linear feet

Subseries 1: Chronological Record

Hokkaido: Background Materials

1966, 1991, n.d.

Box 19: 1

Lists of MAC Professors and Alumni in 19th Century Hokkaido; brief biographical info.

1974, n.d.

Box 19: 2

Photograph of SAC Class of 1880

1880

Box 19: 3

List of names of the 1888 graduating class of SAC

1888

Box 19: 4

A Historical Sketch of the College of Agriculture, Tohoku Imperial University…

1915

Box 19: 5

American Influence upon the Agriculture of Hokkaido, Japan

1915

Box 19: 5

Announcement requesting donations to build Clark Memorial Church

1914

Box 19: 6

Sapporo Independent Church Report on the Clark Memorial

Oct 28, 1922

Box 19: 6

"Clark Memorial Church in Sapporo", sent to Evangelist, Jan. 8, 1923

1923

Box 19: 6

Poster for Keichi dormitory 30th anniversary

1937

Box 19: 6

Great Sapporo souvenir book of photos of Sapporo and HU

1921

Box 19: 7

Photographs of Hokkaido

c. 1922-1926, n.d.

Box 19: 8

Monograph on the History of Hokkaido University, published for its 50th anniversary

1926

Box 19: 9

America-Japan Society of Hokkaido, "Boys, Be Ambitious!", fundraising booklet for Clark Memorial Student Center

1956

Box 19: 10

Exchange contract documents

1956-1957

Box 19: 11

Exchange contract documents and correspondence

1954-1964, n.d.

Box 19: 12

Hokkaido Bear correspondence, clippings, brochure (brochure missing Mar 2004)

1956-1977

Box 19: 13

Honorary UMass Degree Presentation to President SUGINOME at Sapporo

1956

Box 19: 14

SUGINOME's visits to UMass: clippings, memo, press release, and photographs

1957-1967, n.d.

Box 19: 15

List of Hokkaido Univ. professors who served as UMass exchange professors from 1957-61

1974

Box 19: 16

Exchange program articles and clippings

1958-1975, n.d.

Box 19: 17

Dairy Institute, Hokkaido Univ.; nutrition in Japan

1964, n.d.

Box 19: 18

See Box 3, folder 26 for photographs of "A Pictorial Life of Col. William Clark", exhibit prepared by ŌSAKA Shingo, 1961

See oversize Box 28 for "The Picture Story of Our Dr. William Smith Clark, from 1826-1876", original paintings by SUNAGANE Takashi for the ŌSAKA Shingo exhibit, 1961

Exchange Correspondence

1961-1963

Box 20: 19

Glass painting of Hokkaido Univ.

n.d.

Box 26: 2

New York Times Hokkaido article

1963

Box 20: 21

Gift of Japanese art books to UMass

1963-1964

Box 20: 22

The Japan Architect, #109, June 1965,article on Wheeler's model barn

1965

Box 20: 23

Photographs and press release, SUGINOME Chikako (daughter of President SUGINOME) and Japanese Institute

1966

Box 20: 24

Brochure on Hokkaido Univ.

1966

Box 20: 25

Three versions of article by Gilbert Mottla

Univ. of Massachusetts-Hokkaido Univ., Japan 1876-1968

c. 1968

Box 20: 26

Univ. of Massachusetts-Hokkaido Univ., 1876-1972

c. 1972

Box 20: 26

"The Univ. of Massachusetts-Hokkaido Relationship"

c. 1974

Box 20: 26

Bell, Ellsworth, letter and article (article missing Mar 2004)

1970

Box 20: 27

Student paper on Japanese culture

1970

Box 20: 28

See Box 7, folder 6, William Smith Clark Association, for Hokkaido Univ./UMass Relations Committee (1972-1977?)

Photographs of President NIWA's visit

1973

Box 20: 29

Souvenir medal given to B. Burn

1973

Box 26: 3

Exchange correspondence

1968

Box 20: 31

Hokkaido Elm article from Hokkaido Univ. Bulletin

1974

Box 20: 32

Gift of Japanese cherry trees to UMass: clipping from Amherst Record

1974

Box 20: 33

See Subseries 2, Box 22 for information about the Summer Seminar of 1974 in Japan, 1974

See oversize Box 28 for Japanese posters, "Girls, Be Ambitous," 1975

HU centennial: gift of wooden box and papers to HU from UMass

1976-1977

Box 20: 34

HU centennial Correspondence

1976

Box 20: 35

Maki, John, "Clark-Sensei: The Great Achievement in Hokkaido", typescript and printed versions

1976

Box 20: 36

HU centennial photographs

1976

Box 20: 37

HU centennial publicity

1976

Box 20: 38

HU centennial: The Centennial Album of HU; also booklet with translations

1976

Box 20: 39

Student Exchange Program Reports

1976, 1983-1984

Box 21: 40

Hokkaido Univ. / UMass system status

1976

Box 21: 41

Symposium at UMass, "US and Japan: Alliance of Democracies"

1976

Box 21: 42

Lecture by Dr. Kichizo NIWA, former president of HU

1976

Box 21: 43

Calligraphy from HU alumni

1976

Box 21: 44

Brochures and postcards of HU and Sapporo

1975-1986, n.d.

Box 21: 45

"Hokkaido", brochure presented to Archives by Gov. of Hokkaido Takahiro YOKOMICHI

1987

Box 21: 46

Presentation of honorary degree to Mack Drake; paper on the HU / UMass exchange

1977, n.d.

Box 21: 47

Article in Hoku Dai Jiho by Keiji OSAKI

1977, n.d.

Box 21: 48

Japan Pictorial, vol. 2, no. 1, "The American Heritage in Hokkaido"

1979

Box 21: 49

New History of Hokkaido

1981

Box 21: 49

Clippings, press releases, and articles

1878-2001

Box 21: 50

Assorted photographs

1968-1986, n.d.

Box 21: 51

Meiji Restoration and Hokkaido Development Exhibition

1984

Box 21: 52

1985-86 A Brief Sketch of Hokkaido University

1986

Box 21: 53

Burn, Barbara, The University of Massachusetts and Hokkaido University, A Case Study in Educational Cooperation

1989

Box 21: 53

Commemoration in Hokkaido of the 100th anniversary of William Smith Clark's death

1986

Box 21: 53a

HU promotional video (VHS format), general version with English

n.d.

Box 22: 53b

Subseries 2: Summer Seminar,

1974

Fan signed by participants

1974

Box 26: 5

Hokkaido Univ. catalog

1973-1974

Box 22: 55

Study abroad materials

1968-1974

Box 22: 56

Japanese books memo

1975

Box 22: 57

Journal of Richard Woodbury, with related materials

1974-1982

Box 22: 58

Newspaper accounts, maps, calling cards, souvenirs

c. 1970-1974

Box 22: 59

Photographs

1974, n.d.

Box 22: 60

Schedule for seminar, lecture, notes, participant evaluations

1974

Box 22: 61

Souvenir booklets on Sapporo

1968-1972, n.d.

Box 22: 62

Souvenir booklets

1970-1974, n.d.

Box 22: 63

Travel arrangements, press releases, selection of participants, etc.

1974, n.d.

Box 22: 64

Commemoration in Hokkaido of the 100th anniversary of William Smith Clark's death

1986

Box 22: 65

(this item has been moved to Series 5, subseries 1, folder 53a)

Subseries 3: Books on Hokkaido University

Books on Hokkaido University

1877-2003, n.d.

Box 23, 23a: 66-67

See Series 4, subseries 3 for books including bibliographic materials on William Smith Clark

See Series 5, subseries 1, Box 20, folder 39 for The Centennial Album of Hokkaido University

Series 6. Duplicates (Selected)

1852-1976 (bulk1852-1879)

2 boxes, 0.75 linear feet

Hokkaido Official Correspondence (Series 2, folder 7)

Jan-Mar 1876

Box 24: 1

Hokkaido Official Correspondence (Series 2, folder 8)

Jul-Aug 1876

Box 24: 2

Hokkaido Official Correspondence (Series 2, folder 9)

Sep 1876

Box 24: 3

Hokkaido Official Correspondence (Series 2, folder 10)

Oct-Dec 1876

Box 24: 4

Hokkaido Official Correspondence (Series 2, folder 11)

Jan-May 1877

Box 24: 5

On Metallic Meteorites, William Smith Clark's Ph.D. dissertation (Series 3, folder 2)

1852

Box 24: 6

William Smith Clark's Report on Horses (Series 3, folder 3)

1860-1861

Box 24: 7

William Smith Clark's Relations of Botany to Agriculture (Series 3, folder 9)

1873

Box 24: 8

William Smith Clark's Circulation of Sap in Plants (Series 3, folder 10)

1874

Box 24: 9

William Smith Clark's Observation of the Phenomena of Plant Life (Series 3, folder 11)

1875

Box 24: 10

SAC's First Annual Report (Series 3, folder 14)

1877

Box 24: 11

William Smith Clark's The Agriculture of Japan (Series 3, folder 16)

1879

Box 24: 12

Hokkaido Univ. centennial publicity (Series 5, folder 42)

1976

Box 25: 13

Hokkaido Univ. centennial The Centennial Album of HU (Series 5, folder 39)

1976

Box 25: 14

Series 7. Artifacts

1973-1974

1 box, 0.25 linear feet

Glass painting of the bust of William Smith Clark

n.d.

Box 26: 1

Glass painting of HU campus

n.d.

Box 26: 2

Medal presented to B. Burn

1973

Box 26: 3

Silk scarf presented to K. Emerson through John Maki from HU

n.d.

Box 26: 4

Fan signed by the participants of Summer Seminar

1974

Box 26: 5

Bottle opener from Sapporo

n.d.

Box 26: 6

Series 8. Oversized

1851-1975

2 boxes, 2.5 linear feet

Photograph of the log maintained atop Mt. Shasta, signed by Clark, including article in Japanese about it.

Jun 1877

Box 27

From Series 1, subseries 1.

Letter from William Smith Clark to Sister Belle

Jan 8, 1851

Box 27

From Series 2.

William Smith Clark II's Amherst College Graduation Certificate

1921

Box 27

From Series 1, subseries 1.

Newsclippings

1860-1882

Box 27

From Series 4, subseries 2.

Letter from William Smith Clark to daughter Bertha

Feb 12, 1877

Box 27

From Series 2.

Covenant of Believers in Jesus

1877

Box 27

From Series 3.

Japanese Cosmetic Posters "Girls, Be Ambitious"

1975

Box 28

From Series 5, subseries 1.

"The Pictorial Life of Our Dr. William Smith Clark, 1826-1876" Part 1 and 2

1961

Box 28

From Series 1, subseries 3.

Administrative information

Access

The collection is available for research. Some fragile originals have been copied for use.

Provenance

The papers of William Smith Clark (b. 1826, d. 1886), botanist, chemist, mineralogist, and educator, were acquired in part by the Library of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1974 by gift of the widow of Dr. Clark's grandson, Mrs. William S. (Gladys) Clark II. Copies of original documents in the Amherst College Library and the Hokkaido University Library were acquired mainly in 1974-77. Materials about Dr. Clark and the Hokkaido University / University of Massachusetts relationship were acquired from Professors John Maki, Richard Woodbury, H. Leland Varley, and others. Some materials had long been in the University of Massachusetts Library.

Abbreviations used in reference to the William Smith Clark papers are as follows:


AC	Amherst College
D	Doshisha University
HU or Hokudai	Hokkaido University ("Hokudai" is to Hokkaido University as "UMass" is to the University of Massachusetts)
MAC	Massachusetts Agricultural College (earlier name of University of Massachusetts)
SAC	Sapporo Agricultural College (earlier name of Hokkaido University)
William Smith Clark	William Smith Clark

Note: To avoid confusion in the order of Japanese names, this finding aid follows the standard form of family name in UPPERCASE. Also note that names may have been romanized in different ways, both within the collection and in the finding aid.

Processing Information

Processed by John Maki and SCUA staff, 1983, 2004.

Languages:

English, Japanese

Acknowledgments

Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Copyright and Use (More information )

Cite as: William Smith Clark Papers (RG 003/1-1867). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.

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Subjects

Agricultural colleges--Japan--History--Sources.
Agricultural colleges--Massachusetts--History--Sources.
Agriculturists--Japan--Archives.
Agriculturists--Massachusetts--Archives.
Amherst (Mass.)--History--Sources.
Amherst College--Faculty.
Amherst College--Students--Correspondence.
Clark, William Smith, 1826-1886--Archives.
Hokkaido (Japan)--History--Sources.
Hokkaido Daigaku--History--Sources.
Hokkaido Teikoku Daigaku--History--Sources.
Japan--Relations--United States--Sources.
Massachusetts Agricultural College--History--Sources.
Massachusetts Agricultural College--Presidents--Archives.
Sapporo Nogakko--History--Sources.
Sapporo Nogakko--Presidents--Archives.
Tohoku Teikoku Daigaku. Noka Daigaku--History--Sources.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.
United States--Relations--Japan--Sources.
University of Massachusetts at Amherst--History--Sources.
Universität Göttingen--Students--Correspondence.

Contributors

Clark, William Smith, 1826-1886 [main entry]
Massachusetts Agricultural College.
University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Sapporo Nogakko.
Hokkaido Daigaku.

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