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Pearl was raised and educated in Chinkiang (Zhenjiang), China, but studied in the United States at Randolph Macon Women's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, when she was seventeen. She returned to China after her graduation in 1914, and in 1917 Pearl married agricultural economist and missionary John Lossing Buck. The Bucks lived in Nanhsuchou (Nanxuzhou) in rural Anhwei (Anhui) Province and later in Nanking (Nanjing), China, until 1934. They had one biological daughter, Carol, who had severe intellectual and physical disabilities, and adopted another daughter, Janice."," Pearl began writing about Chinese peasant life and culture and the interactions between East and West in the 1920s, and her first novel, East Wind, West Wind, was published in 1930. She published the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Good Earth in 1931, and went on to write more than seventy novels, plays, and short stories and to author numerous articles and essays. Other early books include Sons (1932), A House Divided (1935), The First Wife and Other Stories (1933), All Men are Brothers (1933, translation), The Mother (1934), The Exile (1936), Fighting Angel (1936), and This Proud Heart (1938). In 1938, Pearl Buck became the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature."," By 1935, Pearl had divorced her first husband and married her publisher and editor, Richard J. Walsh. They settled at Green Hills Farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, to be close to Carol, and the couple adopted six more children. Pearl was a prolific writer, and most of her fiction remained set in China and the Far East. Other novels include Dragon Seed (1942), Pavilion of Women (1946), God's Men (1951), Come, My Beloved (1953), Imperial Woman (1956), Letter from Peking (1957), and The Living Reed (1963). Due to personal and political circumstances, Pearl never returned to China after she left in 1934."," Pearl campaigned tirelessly for issues related to Chinese human rights, interracial understanding, and orphaned and disabled children for the rest of her life. In 1949, she founded Welcome House, the first interracial adoption agency in the United States. In 1964, she established the Pearl S. Buck Foundation to provide medical care and education for Amerasian children. Pearl also championed civil rights and women's rights in the United States."," Richard Walsh died in 1960, and in the early 1960s Pearl began a loving relationship with lifelong friend William Ernest Hocking that lasted until Hocking's death in 1966. By 1969, Pearl had moved to Danby, Vermont. Pearl S. Buck died in Vermont in 1973 and is buried at Green Hills Farm in Pennsylvania."," After her death, ownership of Pearl Buck's literary manuscripts was disputed, and eventually awarded to the Pearl S. 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There is also material about Pearl Buck."," Formats include holographs, typescripts, typescript carbons, mixed manuscripts, galleys, and more."," Prominent topics of Buck's literary works include: Chinese history, politics, and culture; American culture; international relations; adoption; children with disabilities; women's rights; and writing. The collection also includes material regarding the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation, Pearl Buck as an author, and other subjects."," For additional material, see A\u0026M 727, Pearl S. Buck, Author, Papers.","Overview of Record Series:"," The collection includes eight series:"," Series 1. Novels; ca. 1930-1973. \n Series 2. Non-fiction; ca. 1936-1972. \n Series 3. Children's Books; ca. 1940-1967. \n Series 4. Translation; ca. 1933. \n Series 5. Collections of Short Stories; ca. 1934-1973. \n Series 6. Other Works; ca. 1923-1967, 2014. \n Series 7. Miscellaneous; ca. 1960-2014. \n Series 8. Oversized; ca. 1930-1995."," Series 1-5 include the bulk of Buck's published books in draft form. The cataloging information for these series was drawn from Mary Lee Welliver's thesis,  Pearl S. Buck's Manuscripts: The Harvest of Half a Century  (see series 7, box 71, folder 284). Some of the drafts are deemed \"original\" -- for more information on how this conclusion was reached, please see pages 17-18 of the thesis. Series 6 includes drafts of works that were not cataloged in Welliver's thesis."," Since many of Buck's drafts are undated, date ranges given in the series descriptions are based in part on dates of publication. Also, page counts have not been verified."," Manuscripts from the collection were originally housed in 273 large numbered envelopes. The original envelope numbers have been retained as folder numbers, and the original envelopes have been moved to boxes 83-86."," Regarding terminology in this finding aid:"," \"Galley\" indicates a preliminary version of a publication meant for review and copyediting, printed on oversize paper."," \"Paged galleys\" indicates galleys where pagination has been added, and the number of pages reflects that pagination."," \"Unpaged galleys\" lack page numbers, and are counted by the number of leaves referred to as \"galley pp.\"."," \"Holograph\" indicates an entirely handwritten work (as opposed to typescript)."," \"Manuscript\" is used in the general sense to include holographs, typescripts, and galleys."," \"PSB\" stands for Pearl S. Buck.","Signed letter to Rare Signatures, A\u0026M 435:","  Signed letter from Pearl Buck to Otto Whittaker, with signed enclosure, dated 1967.","Book to Book Collection:","  Crouch, Archie R. 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Other early books include Sons (1932), A House Divided (1935), The First Wife and Other Stories (1933), All Men are Brothers (1933, translation), The Mother (1934), The Exile (1936), Fighting Angel (1936), and This Proud Heart (1938). In 1938, Pearl Buck became the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature."," By 1935, Pearl had divorced her first husband and married her publisher and editor, Richard J. Walsh. They settled at Green Hills Farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, to be close to Carol, and the couple adopted six more children. Pearl was a prolific writer, and most of her fiction remained set in China and the Far East. Other novels include Dragon Seed (1942), Pavilion of Women (1946), God's Men (1951), Come, My Beloved (1953), Imperial Woman (1956), Letter from Peking (1957), and The Living Reed (1963). Due to personal and political circumstances, Pearl never returned to China after she left in 1934."," Pearl campaigned tirelessly for issues related to Chinese human rights, interracial understanding, and orphaned and disabled children for the rest of her life. In 1949, she founded Welcome House, the first interracial adoption agency in the United States. In 1964, she established the Pearl S. Buck Foundation to provide medical care and education for Amerasian children. Pearl also championed civil rights and women's rights in the United States."," Richard Walsh died in 1960, and in the early 1960s Pearl began a loving relationship with lifelong friend William Ernest Hocking that lasted until Hocking's death in 1966. By 1969, Pearl had moved to Danby, Vermont. Pearl S. Buck died in Vermont in 1973 and is buried at Green Hills Farm in Pennsylvania."," After her death, ownership of Pearl Buck's literary manuscripts was disputed, and eventually awarded to the Pearl S. 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Buck Birthplace Foundation, Pearl Buck as an author, and other subjects."," For additional material, see A\u0026M 727, Pearl S. Buck, Author, Papers.","Overview of Record Series:"," The collection includes eight series:"," Series 1. Novels; ca. 1930-1973. \n Series 2. Non-fiction; ca. 1936-1972. \n Series 3. Children's Books; ca. 1940-1967. \n Series 4. Translation; ca. 1933. \n Series 5. Collections of Short Stories; ca. 1934-1973. \n Series 6. Other Works; ca. 1923-1967, 2014. \n Series 7. Miscellaneous; ca. 1960-2014. \n Series 8. Oversized; ca. 1930-1995."," Series 1-5 include the bulk of Buck's published books in draft form. The cataloging information for these series was drawn from Mary Lee Welliver's thesis,  Pearl S. Buck's Manuscripts: The Harvest of Half a Century  (see series 7, box 71, folder 284). Some of the drafts are deemed \"original\" -- for more information on how this conclusion was reached, please see pages 17-18 of the thesis. Series 6 includes drafts of works that were not cataloged in Welliver's thesis."," Since many of Buck's drafts are undated, date ranges given in the series descriptions are based in part on dates of publication. Also, page counts have not been verified."," Manuscripts from the collection were originally housed in 273 large numbered envelopes. The original envelope numbers have been retained as folder numbers, and the original envelopes have been moved to boxes 83-86."," Regarding terminology in this finding aid:"," \"Galley\" indicates a preliminary version of a publication meant for review and copyediting, printed on oversize paper."," \"Paged galleys\" indicates galleys where pagination has been added, and the number of pages reflects that pagination."," \"Unpaged galleys\" lack page numbers, and are counted by the number of leaves referred to as \"galley pp.\"."," \"Holograph\" indicates an entirely handwritten work (as opposed to typescript)."," \"Manuscript\" is used in the general sense to include holographs, typescripts, and galleys."," \"PSB\" stands for Pearl S. 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Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_f211b751a051bc9538415405c40b491b\"\u003eLiterary manuscripts of Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), an American fiction writer and humanitarian who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938. She is best known for her novels about peasant life in China. The collection includes the great majority of manuscripts comprising Buck's literary works, including her novels, non-fiction, children's books, and short stories, as well as articles and speeches, among other material. There is also material about Pearl Buck. Formats include holographs, typescripts, typescript carbons, mixed manuscripts, galleys, and more. Prominent topics of Buck's literary works include: Chinese history, politics, and culture; American culture; international relations; adoption; children with disabilities; women's rights; and writing. The collection also includes material regarding the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation, Pearl Buck as an author, and other subjects. For additional material, see A\u0026amp;M 727, Pearl S. Buck, Author. Papers (1930-1976, undated).\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Literary manuscripts of Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), an American fiction writer and humanitarian who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938. She is best known for her novels about peasant life in China. The collection includes the great majority of manuscripts comprising Buck's literary works, including her novels, non-fiction, children's books, and short stories, as well as articles and speeches, among other material. There is also material about Pearl Buck. Formats include holographs, typescripts, typescript carbons, mixed manuscripts, galleys, and more. Prominent topics of Buck's literary works include: Chinese history, politics, and culture; American culture; international relations; adoption; children with disabilities; women's rights; and writing. The collection also includes material regarding the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation, Pearl Buck as an author, and other subjects. For additional material, see A\u0026M 727, Pearl S. Buck, Author. 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She returned to China after her graduation in 1914, and in 1917 Pearl married agricultural economist and missionary John Lossing Buck. The Bucks lived in Nanhsuchou (Nanxuzhou) in rural Anhwei (Anhui) Province and later in Nanking (Nanjing), China, until 1934. They had one biological daughter, Carol, who had severe intellectual and physical disabilities, and adopted another daughter, Janice.","Pearl began writing about Chinese peasant life and culture and the interactions between East and West in the 1920s, and her first novel,  East Wind, West Wind,  was published in 1930. She published the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel  The Good Earth  in 1931, and went on to write more than seventy novels, plays, and short stories and to author numerous articles and essays. Other early books include  Sons  (1932),  A House Divided  (1935),  The First Wife and Other Stories  (1933),  All Men are Brothers  (1933, translation),  The Mother  (1934),  The Exile  (1936),  Fighting Angel  (1936), and  This Proud Heart  (1938). In 1938 Pearl Buck was the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.","By 1935, Pearl had divorced her husband and married her publisher and editor, Richard J. Walsh. They settled at Green Hills Farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, to be close to Carol, and the Walshes adopted six more children. Pearl was a prolific writer, and most of her fiction remained set in China and the Far East. Other novels include  Dragon Seed  (1942),  Pavilion of Women  (1946),  God's Men  (1951),  Come, My Beloved  (1953),  Imperial Woman  (1956),  Letter from Peking  (1957), and  The Living Reed  (1963). However, due to personal and political circumstances, Pearl never returned to China after she left in 1934.","Pearl campaigned tirelessly for issues related to Chinese human rights, interracial understanding, and orphaned and disabled children for the rest of her life. In 1949 she founded Welcome House, the first interracial adoption agency in the United States. In 1964 she established the Pearl S. Buck Foundation to provide medical care and education for Amerasian children. Pearl also championed civil rights and women's rights in the United States.","Richard Walsh died in 1960, and in the early 1960s Pearl began a loving relationship with lifelong friend William Ernest Hocking that lasted until Hocking's death in 1966. By 1969, Pearl had moved to Danby, Vermont. Pearl S. Buck died in Vermont in 1973 and is buried at Green Hills Farm in Pennsylvania.","4052","Papers of Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), an American fiction writer and humanitarian who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938 for her novels about peasant life in China.  Though she was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, Buck was the daughter of Presbyterian missionaries and she was raised in and lived the first part of her adult life in China. ","Dating chiefly from 1933 to 1966, the collection contains typescript and handwritten drafts of articles, reviews, novels, plays, short stories, and speeches; reference materials; and correspondence that document Pearl Buck's literary, political, and humanitarian activities from 1933 to 1976. ","Prominent topics include Buck's writing, including novels, short stories, articles, and speeches, and publication of her work; Chinese history, politics, and culture; American culture; interracial and international adoption; children with disabilities; and Buck's work for human rights. ","Prominent correspondents include Richard Walsh, William E. Hocking, and various authors and politicians. Papers also include materials related to the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace and to other Chinese and American writers. ","Addenda include photos, correspondence, publications, drafts of Buck's work, ephemera, recordings, artifacts, and other material. ","For additional Pearl Buck material, see A\u0026M 4052, Pearl S. Buck, Author, Literary Manuscripts. ","There are twelve series in this collection, plus addenda. Most of the material in series 1-6 was written by Buck. ","Series 1. Articles; circa 1937-1944; box 1 - box 2, folder 39. \nSeries 2. Book Reviews; undated; box 2, folder 40-51.  \nSeries 3. Fiction; circa 1930-1960; box 2, folder 52 - box 5, folder 7. \nSeries 4. Biographical Writings; undated; box 5, folder 8 - box 6, folder 1. \nSeries 5. Book Manuscripts; undated; box 6, folder 2 - box 7B. \nSeries 6. Speeches; circa 1930-1969; box 8, folders 1-27. \nSeries 7. Reference Materials; circa 1937-1950s; box 8, folders 28-32. \nSeries 8. Miscellaneous Materials; circa 1900-1967, undated; box 9. \nSeries 9. Writings by Other Authors; 1930-1931, undated; box 10. \nSeries 10. James Comstock Collection; 1939-1970, undated; box 11. \nSeries 11. Addenda--Correspondence; 1933-1966, undated; boxes 12-14. \nSeries 12. Oversized; ca. 1930s-1970s, undated; box 28, folders 1-9. \nAddendum of 2006/05/22; 1948; box 34. \nAddendum of 2015/04/24; 1939-1988, undated; box 14, folder 14. \nAddendum of 2015/05/08; 1921-1945; boxes 15-24. \nAddendum of 2015/11/09; circa 1943; box 14, folder 15-19. \nAddendum of 2016/06/08; circa 2002; box 25. \nAddendum of 2017/04/10; circa 1937-1983; box 26, folders 1-3. \nAddendum of 2017/06/22; circa 1940-1983, undated; box 27, folders 1-17. \nAddendum of 2017/07/17; 2017; box 25. \nAddendum of 2017/07/28; 1983; box 25, folder 3. \nAddendum of 2017/08/07; circa 1941, 1982; box 28, folder 10. \nAddendum of 2017/08/22; 2010; box 26, folder 4. \nAddendum of 2018/02/27; 2015; box 26, folder 5. \nAddendum of 2018/05/23; undated; box 35, folder 4. \nAddendum of 2018/06/01; 1943-1962; box 35, folder 6. \nAddendum of 2018/08/16; 1932; box 35, folder 2. \nAddendum of 2018/08/17; 1942; box 35, folder 3. \nAddendum of 2019/02/18; 1973; box 29. \nAddendum of 2019/03/19; 2015-2018; boxes 30-31. \nAddendum of 2019/07/23; 2015-2018; boxes 32-33. \nAddendum of 2019/10/01; undated; box 34.  \nAddendum of 2020/08/17; 1946-1983; box 35, folder 5. \nAddendum of 2021/03/07; September 2015; box 32, folder 1. \nAddendum of 2021/04/28; circa 1971-1972; box 35, folder 1.  \nAddendum of 2023/07/30; 1938-1940 and undated; box 32, folder 2.","Original signed letter from Buck to Mrs. Charles Wilde (1962) moved to A\u0026M 435, Rare Signatures.","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. 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Buck died in Vermont in 1973 and is buried at Green Hills Farm in Pennsylvania.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Pearl Sydenstricker Buck was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, in 1892 to Caroline Stulting Sydenstricker and Absalom Sydenstricker, Southern Presbyterian missionaries who returned to China shortly after their daughter's birth. Pearl was raised and educated in Chinkiang (Zhenjiang), China, but studied in the United States at Randolph Macon Women's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, when she was seventeen. She returned to China after her graduation in 1914, and in 1917 Pearl married agricultural economist and missionary John Lossing Buck. The Bucks lived in Nanhsuchou (Nanxuzhou) in rural Anhwei (Anhui) Province and later in Nanking (Nanjing), China, until 1934. They had one biological daughter, Carol, who had severe intellectual and physical disabilities, and adopted another daughter, Janice.","Pearl began writing about Chinese peasant life and culture and the interactions between East and West in the 1920s, and her first novel,  East Wind, West Wind,  was published in 1930. She published the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel  The Good Earth  in 1931, and went on to write more than seventy novels, plays, and short stories and to author numerous articles and essays. Other early books include  Sons  (1932),  A House Divided  (1935),  The First Wife and Other Stories  (1933),  All Men are Brothers  (1933, translation),  The Mother  (1934),  The Exile  (1936),  Fighting Angel  (1936), and  This Proud Heart  (1938). In 1938 Pearl Buck was the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.","By 1935, Pearl had divorced her husband and married her publisher and editor, Richard J. Walsh. They settled at Green Hills Farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, to be close to Carol, and the Walshes adopted six more children. Pearl was a prolific writer, and most of her fiction remained set in China and the Far East. Other novels include  Dragon Seed  (1942),  Pavilion of Women  (1946),  God's Men  (1951),  Come, My Beloved  (1953),  Imperial Woman  (1956),  Letter from Peking  (1957), and  The Living Reed  (1963). However, due to personal and political circumstances, Pearl never returned to China after she left in 1934.","Pearl campaigned tirelessly for issues related to Chinese human rights, interracial understanding, and orphaned and disabled children for the rest of her life. In 1949 she founded Welcome House, the first interracial adoption agency in the United States. In 1964 she established the Pearl S. Buck Foundation to provide medical care and education for Amerasian children. Pearl also championed civil rights and women's rights in the United States.","Richard Walsh died in 1960, and in the early 1960s Pearl began a loving relationship with lifelong friend William Ernest Hocking that lasted until Hocking's death in 1966. By 1969, Pearl had moved to Danby, Vermont. Pearl S. Buck died in Vermont in 1973 and is buried at Green Hills Farm in Pennsylvania."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Pearl S. Buck, Author, Papers, A\u0026amp;M 0727, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Pearl S. Buck, Author, Papers, A\u0026M 0727, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e4052\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related A\u0026M Collections"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["4052"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers of Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), an American fiction writer and humanitarian who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938 for her novels about peasant life in China.  Though she was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, Buck was the daughter of Presbyterian missionaries and she was raised in and lived the first part of her adult life in China. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDating chiefly from 1933 to 1966, the collection contains typescript and handwritten drafts of articles, reviews, novels, plays, short stories, and speeches; reference materials; and correspondence that document Pearl Buck's literary, political, and humanitarian activities from 1933 to 1976. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eProminent topics include Buck's writing, including novels, short stories, articles, and speeches, and publication of her work; Chinese history, politics, and culture; American culture; interracial and international adoption; children with disabilities; and Buck's work for human rights. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eProminent correspondents include Richard Walsh, William E. Hocking, and various authors and politicians. Papers also include materials related to the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace and to other Chinese and American writers. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAddenda include photos, correspondence, publications, drafts of Buck's work, ephemera, recordings, artifacts, and other material. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFor additional Pearl Buck material, see A\u0026amp;M 4052, Pearl S. Buck, Author, Literary Manuscripts. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThere are twelve series in this collection, plus addenda. Most of the material in series 1-6 was written by Buck. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1. Articles; circa 1937-1944; box 1 - box 2, folder 39.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 2. Book Reviews; undated; box 2, folder 40-51. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 3. Fiction; circa 1930-1960; box 2, folder 52 - box 5, folder 7.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 4. Biographical Writings; undated; box 5, folder 8 - box 6, folder 1.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 5. Book Manuscripts; undated; box 6, folder 2 - box 7B.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 6. Speeches; circa 1930-1969; box 8, folders 1-27.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 7. Reference Materials; circa 1937-1950s; box 8, folders 28-32.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 8. Miscellaneous Materials; circa 1900-1967, undated; box 9.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 9. Writings by Other Authors; 1930-1931, undated; box 10.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 10. James Comstock Collection; 1939-1970, undated; box 11.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 11. Addenda--Correspondence; 1933-1966, undated; boxes 12-14.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 12. Oversized; ca. 1930s-1970s, undated; box 28, folders 1-9.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2006/05/22; 1948; box 34.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2015/04/24; 1939-1988, undated; box 14, folder 14.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2015/05/08; 1921-1945; boxes 15-24.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2015/11/09; circa 1943; box 14, folder 15-19.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2016/06/08; circa 2002; box 25.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2017/04/10; circa 1937-1983; box 26, folders 1-3.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2017/06/22; circa 1940-1983, undated; box 27, folders 1-17.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2017/07/17; 2017; box 25.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2017/07/28; 1983; box 25, folder 3.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2017/08/07; circa 1941, 1982; box 28, folder 10.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2017/08/22; 2010; box 26, folder 4.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2018/02/27; 2015; box 26, folder 5.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2018/05/23; undated; box 35, folder 4.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2018/06/01; 1943-1962; box 35, folder 6.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2018/08/16; 1932; box 35, folder 2.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2018/08/17; 1942; box 35, folder 3.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2019/02/18; 1973; box 29.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2019/03/19; 2015-2018; boxes 30-31.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2019/07/23; 2015-2018; boxes 32-33.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2019/10/01; undated; box 34.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e \nAddendum of 2020/08/17; 1946-1983; box 35, folder 5.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2021/03/07; September 2015; box 32, folder 1.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2021/04/28; circa 1971-1972; box 35, folder 1. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2023/07/30; 1938-1940 and undated; box 32, folder 2.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers of Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), an American fiction writer and humanitarian who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938 for her novels about peasant life in China.  Though she was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, Buck was the daughter of Presbyterian missionaries and she was raised in and lived the first part of her adult life in China. ","Dating chiefly from 1933 to 1966, the collection contains typescript and handwritten drafts of articles, reviews, novels, plays, short stories, and speeches; reference materials; and correspondence that document Pearl Buck's literary, political, and humanitarian activities from 1933 to 1976. ","Prominent topics include Buck's writing, including novels, short stories, articles, and speeches, and publication of her work; Chinese history, politics, and culture; American culture; interracial and international adoption; children with disabilities; and Buck's work for human rights. ","Prominent correspondents include Richard Walsh, William E. Hocking, and various authors and politicians. Papers also include materials related to the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace and to other Chinese and American writers. ","Addenda include photos, correspondence, publications, drafts of Buck's work, ephemera, recordings, artifacts, and other material. ","For additional Pearl Buck material, see A\u0026M 4052, Pearl S. Buck, Author, Literary Manuscripts. ","There are twelve series in this collection, plus addenda. Most of the material in series 1-6 was written by Buck. ","Series 1. Articles; circa 1937-1944; box 1 - box 2, folder 39. \nSeries 2. Book Reviews; undated; box 2, folder 40-51.  \nSeries 3. Fiction; circa 1930-1960; box 2, folder 52 - box 5, folder 7. \nSeries 4. Biographical Writings; undated; box 5, folder 8 - box 6, folder 1. \nSeries 5. Book Manuscripts; undated; box 6, folder 2 - box 7B. \nSeries 6. Speeches; circa 1930-1969; box 8, folders 1-27. \nSeries 7. Reference Materials; circa 1937-1950s; box 8, folders 28-32. \nSeries 8. Miscellaneous Materials; circa 1900-1967, undated; box 9. \nSeries 9. Writings by Other Authors; 1930-1931, undated; box 10. \nSeries 10. James Comstock Collection; 1939-1970, undated; box 11. \nSeries 11. Addenda--Correspondence; 1933-1966, undated; boxes 12-14. \nSeries 12. Oversized; ca. 1930s-1970s, undated; box 28, folders 1-9. \nAddendum of 2006/05/22; 1948; box 34. \nAddendum of 2015/04/24; 1939-1988, undated; box 14, folder 14. \nAddendum of 2015/05/08; 1921-1945; boxes 15-24. \nAddendum of 2015/11/09; circa 1943; box 14, folder 15-19. \nAddendum of 2016/06/08; circa 2002; box 25. \nAddendum of 2017/04/10; circa 1937-1983; box 26, folders 1-3. \nAddendum of 2017/06/22; circa 1940-1983, undated; box 27, folders 1-17. \nAddendum of 2017/07/17; 2017; box 25. \nAddendum of 2017/07/28; 1983; box 25, folder 3. \nAddendum of 2017/08/07; circa 1941, 1982; box 28, folder 10. \nAddendum of 2017/08/22; 2010; box 26, folder 4. \nAddendum of 2018/02/27; 2015; box 26, folder 5. \nAddendum of 2018/05/23; undated; box 35, folder 4. \nAddendum of 2018/06/01; 1943-1962; box 35, folder 6. \nAddendum of 2018/08/16; 1932; box 35, folder 2. \nAddendum of 2018/08/17; 1942; box 35, folder 3. \nAddendum of 2019/02/18; 1973; box 29. \nAddendum of 2019/03/19; 2015-2018; boxes 30-31. \nAddendum of 2019/07/23; 2015-2018; boxes 32-33. \nAddendum of 2019/10/01; undated; box 34.  \nAddendum of 2020/08/17; 1946-1983; box 35, folder 5. \nAddendum of 2021/03/07; September 2015; box 32, folder 1. \nAddendum of 2021/04/28; circa 1971-1972; box 35, folder 1.  \nAddendum of 2023/07/30; 1938-1940 and undated; box 32, folder 2."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eOriginal signed letter from Buck to Mrs. Charles Wilde (1962) moved to A\u0026amp;M 435, Rare Signatures.\u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["Original signed letter from Buck to Mrs. Charles Wilde (1962) moved to A\u0026M 435, Rare Signatures."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_333ae7a4aced96d0a9d85dffabb69677\"\u003ePapers of Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), an American fiction writer and humanitarian who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938 for her novels about peasant life in China. Dating chiefly from 1933 to 1966, the collection contains typescript and handwritten drafts of articles, reviews, novels, plays, short stories, and speeches; reference materials; and correspondence that document Pearl Buck's literary, political, and humanitarian activities from 1933 to 1976. Prominent topics include Buck's writing, including novels, short stories, articles, and speeches, and publication of her work; Chinese history, politics, and culture; American culture; interracial and international adoption; children with disabilities; and Buck's work for human rights. Prominent correspondents include Richard Walsh, William E. Hocking, and various authors and politicians. Papers also include materials related to the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace and to other Chinese and American writers. Addenda include photos, correspondence, publications, drafts of Buck's work, ephemera, recordings, and other material.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Papers of Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), an American fiction writer and humanitarian who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938 for her novels about peasant life in China. Dating chiefly from 1933 to 1966, the collection contains typescript and handwritten drafts of articles, reviews, novels, plays, short stories, and speeches; reference materials; and correspondence that document Pearl Buck's literary, political, and humanitarian activities from 1933 to 1976. Prominent topics include Buck's writing, including novels, short stories, articles, and speeches, and publication of her work; Chinese history, politics, and culture; American culture; interracial and international adoption; children with disabilities; and Buck's work for human rights. Prominent correspondents include Richard Walsh, William E. Hocking, and various authors and politicians. Papers also include materials related to the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace and to other Chinese and American writers. Addenda include photos, correspondence, publications, drafts of Buck's work, ephemera, recordings, and other material."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_b80b18ed2fa6efaf420bb73ebeea23dd\"\u003eWest Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/\u003c/physloc\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/"],"names_ssim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center","New York City Ballet","Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973","Bepari, Rasheeda Begum","Hocking, William Ernest, 1873-1966"],"corpname_ssim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center","New York City Ballet"],"names_coll_ssim":["Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973","Hocking, William Ernest, 1873-1966"],"persname_ssim":["Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973","Bepari, Rasheeda Begum","Hocking, William Ernest, 1873-1966"],"language_ssim":["English \n.    "],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":401,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-04-30T23:23:30.867Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_3133","ead_ssi":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_3133","_root_":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_3133","_nest_parent_":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_3133","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WVU/repositories_2_resources_3133.xml","aspace_url_ssi":"https://archives.lib.wvu.edu/ark:/99999/209189","title_ssm":["Pearl S. Buck, Author, Papers"],"title_tesim":["Pearl S. 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Buck, Author, Papers","China -- Fiction","China -- In literature","United States -- Relations -- China","West Virginia - Writers.","Amerasians","Authors, American -- West Virginia","Human rights advocacy","Intercountry adoption","Interracial adoption","Literature and society -- China","Literature and society -- United States","Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence","Novelists, American -- West Virginia","Women novelists, American   -- 20th century","Women social reformers -- United States","No special access restriction applies.","Pearl Sydenstricker Buck was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, in 1892 to Caroline Stulting Sydenstricker and Absalom Sydenstricker, Southern Presbyterian missionaries who returned to China shortly after their daughter's birth. Pearl was raised and educated in Chinkiang (Zhenjiang), China, but studied in the United States at Randolph Macon Women's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, when she was seventeen. She returned to China after her graduation in 1914, and in 1917 Pearl married agricultural economist and missionary John Lossing Buck. The Bucks lived in Nanhsuchou (Nanxuzhou) in rural Anhwei (Anhui) Province and later in Nanking (Nanjing), China, until 1934. They had one biological daughter, Carol, who had severe intellectual and physical disabilities, and adopted another daughter, Janice.","Pearl began writing about Chinese peasant life and culture and the interactions between East and West in the 1920s, and her first novel,  East Wind, West Wind,  was published in 1930. She published the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel  The Good Earth  in 1931, and went on to write more than seventy novels, plays, and short stories and to author numerous articles and essays. Other early books include  Sons  (1932),  A House Divided  (1935),  The First Wife and Other Stories  (1933),  All Men are Brothers  (1933, translation),  The Mother  (1934),  The Exile  (1936),  Fighting Angel  (1936), and  This Proud Heart  (1938). In 1938 Pearl Buck was the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.","By 1935, Pearl had divorced her husband and married her publisher and editor, Richard J. Walsh. They settled at Green Hills Farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, to be close to Carol, and the Walshes adopted six more children. Pearl was a prolific writer, and most of her fiction remained set in China and the Far East. Other novels include  Dragon Seed  (1942),  Pavilion of Women  (1946),  God's Men  (1951),  Come, My Beloved  (1953),  Imperial Woman  (1956),  Letter from Peking  (1957), and  The Living Reed  (1963). However, due to personal and political circumstances, Pearl never returned to China after she left in 1934.","Pearl campaigned tirelessly for issues related to Chinese human rights, interracial understanding, and orphaned and disabled children for the rest of her life. In 1949 she founded Welcome House, the first interracial adoption agency in the United States. In 1964 she established the Pearl S. Buck Foundation to provide medical care and education for Amerasian children. Pearl also championed civil rights and women's rights in the United States.","Richard Walsh died in 1960, and in the early 1960s Pearl began a loving relationship with lifelong friend William Ernest Hocking that lasted until Hocking's death in 1966. By 1969, Pearl had moved to Danby, Vermont. Pearl S. Buck died in Vermont in 1973 and is buried at Green Hills Farm in Pennsylvania.","4052","Papers of Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), an American fiction writer and humanitarian who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938 for her novels about peasant life in China.  Though she was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, Buck was the daughter of Presbyterian missionaries and she was raised in and lived the first part of her adult life in China. ","Dating chiefly from 1933 to 1966, the collection contains typescript and handwritten drafts of articles, reviews, novels, plays, short stories, and speeches; reference materials; and correspondence that document Pearl Buck's literary, political, and humanitarian activities from 1933 to 1976. ","Prominent topics include Buck's writing, including novels, short stories, articles, and speeches, and publication of her work; Chinese history, politics, and culture; American culture; interracial and international adoption; children with disabilities; and Buck's work for human rights. ","Prominent correspondents include Richard Walsh, William E. Hocking, and various authors and politicians. Papers also include materials related to the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace and to other Chinese and American writers. ","Addenda include photos, correspondence, publications, drafts of Buck's work, ephemera, recordings, artifacts, and other material. ","For additional Pearl Buck material, see A\u0026M 4052, Pearl S. Buck, Author, Literary Manuscripts. ","There are twelve series in this collection, plus addenda. Most of the material in series 1-6 was written by Buck. ","Series 1. Articles; circa 1937-1944; box 1 - box 2, folder 39. \nSeries 2. Book Reviews; undated; box 2, folder 40-51.  \nSeries 3. Fiction; circa 1930-1960; box 2, folder 52 - box 5, folder 7. \nSeries 4. Biographical Writings; undated; box 5, folder 8 - box 6, folder 1. \nSeries 5. Book Manuscripts; undated; box 6, folder 2 - box 7B. \nSeries 6. Speeches; circa 1930-1969; box 8, folders 1-27. \nSeries 7. Reference Materials; circa 1937-1950s; box 8, folders 28-32. \nSeries 8. Miscellaneous Materials; circa 1900-1967, undated; box 9. \nSeries 9. Writings by Other Authors; 1930-1931, undated; box 10. \nSeries 10. James Comstock Collection; 1939-1970, undated; box 11. \nSeries 11. Addenda--Correspondence; 1933-1966, undated; boxes 12-14. \nSeries 12. Oversized; ca. 1930s-1970s, undated; box 28, folders 1-9. \nAddendum of 2006/05/22; 1948; box 34. \nAddendum of 2015/04/24; 1939-1988, undated; box 14, folder 14. \nAddendum of 2015/05/08; 1921-1945; boxes 15-24. \nAddendum of 2015/11/09; circa 1943; box 14, folder 15-19. \nAddendum of 2016/06/08; circa 2002; box 25. \nAddendum of 2017/04/10; circa 1937-1983; box 26, folders 1-3. \nAddendum of 2017/06/22; circa 1940-1983, undated; box 27, folders 1-17. \nAddendum of 2017/07/17; 2017; box 25. \nAddendum of 2017/07/28; 1983; box 25, folder 3. \nAddendum of 2017/08/07; circa 1941, 1982; box 28, folder 10. \nAddendum of 2017/08/22; 2010; box 26, folder 4. \nAddendum of 2018/02/27; 2015; box 26, folder 5. \nAddendum of 2018/05/23; undated; box 35, folder 4. \nAddendum of 2018/06/01; 1943-1962; box 35, folder 6. \nAddendum of 2018/08/16; 1932; box 35, folder 2. \nAddendum of 2018/08/17; 1942; box 35, folder 3. \nAddendum of 2019/02/18; 1973; box 29. \nAddendum of 2019/03/19; 2015-2018; boxes 30-31. \nAddendum of 2019/07/23; 2015-2018; boxes 32-33. \nAddendum of 2019/10/01; undated; box 34.  \nAddendum of 2020/08/17; 1946-1983; box 35, folder 5. \nAddendum of 2021/03/07; September 2015; box 32, folder 1. \nAddendum of 2021/04/28; circa 1971-1972; box 35, folder 1.  \nAddendum of 2023/07/30; 1938-1940 and undated; box 32, folder 2.","Original signed letter from Buck to Mrs. Charles Wilde (1962) moved to A\u0026M 435, Rare Signatures.","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","Papers of Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), an American fiction writer and humanitarian who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938 for her novels about peasant life in China. Dating chiefly from 1933 to 1966, the collection contains typescript and handwritten drafts of articles, reviews, novels, plays, short stories, and speeches; reference materials; and correspondence that document Pearl Buck's literary, political, and humanitarian activities from 1933 to 1976. Prominent topics include Buck's writing, including novels, short stories, articles, and speeches, and publication of her work; Chinese history, politics, and culture; American culture; interracial and international adoption; children with disabilities; and Buck's work for human rights. Prominent correspondents include Richard Walsh, William E. 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Pearl was raised and educated in Chinkiang (Zhenjiang), China, but studied in the United States at Randolph Macon Women's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, when she was seventeen. She returned to China after her graduation in 1914, and in 1917 Pearl married agricultural economist and missionary John Lossing Buck. The Bucks lived in Nanhsuchou (Nanxuzhou) in rural Anhwei (Anhui) Province and later in Nanking (Nanjing), China, until 1934. They had one biological daughter, Carol, who had severe intellectual and physical disabilities, and adopted another daughter, Janice.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePearl began writing about Chinese peasant life and culture and the interactions between East and West in the 1920s, and her first novel, \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eEast Wind, West Wind,\u003c/emph\u003e was published in 1930. She published the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Good Earth\u003c/emph\u003e in 1931, and went on to write more than seventy novels, plays, and short stories and to author numerous articles and essays. Other early books include \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eSons\u003c/emph\u003e (1932), \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eA House Divided\u003c/emph\u003e (1935), \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe First Wife and Other Stories\u003c/emph\u003e (1933), \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAll Men are Brothers\u003c/emph\u003e (1933, translation), \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Mother\u003c/emph\u003e (1934), \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Exile\u003c/emph\u003e (1936), \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eFighting Angel\u003c/emph\u003e (1936), and \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThis Proud Heart\u003c/emph\u003e (1938). In 1938 Pearl Buck was the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy 1935, Pearl had divorced her husband and married her publisher and editor, Richard J. Walsh. They settled at Green Hills Farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, to be close to Carol, and the Walshes adopted six more children. Pearl was a prolific writer, and most of her fiction remained set in China and the Far East. Other novels include \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eDragon Seed\u003c/emph\u003e (1942), \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003ePavilion of Women\u003c/emph\u003e (1946), \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eGod's Men\u003c/emph\u003e (1951), \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eCome, My Beloved\u003c/emph\u003e (1953), \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eImperial Woman\u003c/emph\u003e (1956), \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eLetter from Peking\u003c/emph\u003e (1957), and \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Living Reed\u003c/emph\u003e (1963). However, due to personal and political circumstances, Pearl never returned to China after she left in 1934.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePearl campaigned tirelessly for issues related to Chinese human rights, interracial understanding, and orphaned and disabled children for the rest of her life. In 1949 she founded Welcome House, the first interracial adoption agency in the United States. In 1964 she established the Pearl S. Buck Foundation to provide medical care and education for Amerasian children. Pearl also championed civil rights and women's rights in the United States.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRichard Walsh died in 1960, and in the early 1960s Pearl began a loving relationship with lifelong friend William Ernest Hocking that lasted until Hocking's death in 1966. By 1969, Pearl had moved to Danby, Vermont. Pearl S. Buck died in Vermont in 1973 and is buried at Green Hills Farm in Pennsylvania.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Pearl Sydenstricker Buck was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, in 1892 to Caroline Stulting Sydenstricker and Absalom Sydenstricker, Southern Presbyterian missionaries who returned to China shortly after their daughter's birth. Pearl was raised and educated in Chinkiang (Zhenjiang), China, but studied in the United States at Randolph Macon Women's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, when she was seventeen. She returned to China after her graduation in 1914, and in 1917 Pearl married agricultural economist and missionary John Lossing Buck. The Bucks lived in Nanhsuchou (Nanxuzhou) in rural Anhwei (Anhui) Province and later in Nanking (Nanjing), China, until 1934. They had one biological daughter, Carol, who had severe intellectual and physical disabilities, and adopted another daughter, Janice.","Pearl began writing about Chinese peasant life and culture and the interactions between East and West in the 1920s, and her first novel,  East Wind, West Wind,  was published in 1930. She published the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel  The Good Earth  in 1931, and went on to write more than seventy novels, plays, and short stories and to author numerous articles and essays. Other early books include  Sons  (1932),  A House Divided  (1935),  The First Wife and Other Stories  (1933),  All Men are Brothers  (1933, translation),  The Mother  (1934),  The Exile  (1936),  Fighting Angel  (1936), and  This Proud Heart  (1938). In 1938 Pearl Buck was the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.","By 1935, Pearl had divorced her husband and married her publisher and editor, Richard J. Walsh. They settled at Green Hills Farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, to be close to Carol, and the Walshes adopted six more children. Pearl was a prolific writer, and most of her fiction remained set in China and the Far East. Other novels include  Dragon Seed  (1942),  Pavilion of Women  (1946),  God's Men  (1951),  Come, My Beloved  (1953),  Imperial Woman  (1956),  Letter from Peking  (1957), and  The Living Reed  (1963). However, due to personal and political circumstances, Pearl never returned to China after she left in 1934.","Pearl campaigned tirelessly for issues related to Chinese human rights, interracial understanding, and orphaned and disabled children for the rest of her life. In 1949 she founded Welcome House, the first interracial adoption agency in the United States. In 1964 she established the Pearl S. Buck Foundation to provide medical care and education for Amerasian children. Pearl also championed civil rights and women's rights in the United States.","Richard Walsh died in 1960, and in the early 1960s Pearl began a loving relationship with lifelong friend William Ernest Hocking that lasted until Hocking's death in 1966. By 1969, Pearl had moved to Danby, Vermont. Pearl S. Buck died in Vermont in 1973 and is buried at Green Hills Farm in Pennsylvania."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Pearl S. Buck, Author, Papers, A\u0026amp;M 0727, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Pearl S. 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Though she was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, Buck was the daughter of Presbyterian missionaries and she was raised in and lived the first part of her adult life in China. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDating chiefly from 1933 to 1966, the collection contains typescript and handwritten drafts of articles, reviews, novels, plays, short stories, and speeches; reference materials; and correspondence that document Pearl Buck's literary, political, and humanitarian activities from 1933 to 1976. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eProminent topics include Buck's writing, including novels, short stories, articles, and speeches, and publication of her work; Chinese history, politics, and culture; American culture; interracial and international adoption; children with disabilities; and Buck's work for human rights. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eProminent correspondents include Richard Walsh, William E. Hocking, and various authors and politicians. Papers also include materials related to the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace and to other Chinese and American writers. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAddenda include photos, correspondence, publications, drafts of Buck's work, ephemera, recordings, artifacts, and other material. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFor additional Pearl Buck material, see A\u0026amp;M 4052, Pearl S. Buck, Author, Literary Manuscripts. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThere are twelve series in this collection, plus addenda. Most of the material in series 1-6 was written by Buck. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1. Articles; circa 1937-1944; box 1 - box 2, folder 39.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 2. Book Reviews; undated; box 2, folder 40-51. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 3. Fiction; circa 1930-1960; box 2, folder 52 - box 5, folder 7.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 4. Biographical Writings; undated; box 5, folder 8 - box 6, folder 1.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 5. Book Manuscripts; undated; box 6, folder 2 - box 7B.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 6. Speeches; circa 1930-1969; box 8, folders 1-27.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 7. Reference Materials; circa 1937-1950s; box 8, folders 28-32.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 8. Miscellaneous Materials; circa 1900-1967, undated; box 9.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 9. Writings by Other Authors; 1930-1931, undated; box 10.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 10. James Comstock Collection; 1939-1970, undated; box 11.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 11. Addenda--Correspondence; 1933-1966, undated; boxes 12-14.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 12. Oversized; ca. 1930s-1970s, undated; box 28, folders 1-9.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2006/05/22; 1948; box 34.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2015/04/24; 1939-1988, undated; box 14, folder 14.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2015/05/08; 1921-1945; boxes 15-24.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2015/11/09; circa 1943; box 14, folder 15-19.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2016/06/08; circa 2002; box 25.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2017/04/10; circa 1937-1983; box 26, folders 1-3.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2017/06/22; circa 1940-1983, undated; box 27, folders 1-17.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2017/07/17; 2017; box 25.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2017/07/28; 1983; box 25, folder 3.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2017/08/07; circa 1941, 1982; box 28, folder 10.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2017/08/22; 2010; box 26, folder 4.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2018/02/27; 2015; box 26, folder 5.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2018/05/23; undated; box 35, folder 4.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2018/06/01; 1943-1962; box 35, folder 6.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2018/08/16; 1932; box 35, folder 2.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2018/08/17; 1942; box 35, folder 3.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2019/02/18; 1973; box 29.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2019/03/19; 2015-2018; boxes 30-31.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2019/07/23; 2015-2018; boxes 32-33.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2019/10/01; undated; box 34.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e \nAddendum of 2020/08/17; 1946-1983; box 35, folder 5.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2021/03/07; September 2015; box 32, folder 1.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2021/04/28; circa 1971-1972; box 35, folder 1. \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAddendum of 2023/07/30; 1938-1940 and undated; box 32, folder 2.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers of Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), an American fiction writer and humanitarian who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938 for her novels about peasant life in China.  Though she was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, Buck was the daughter of Presbyterian missionaries and she was raised in and lived the first part of her adult life in China. ","Dating chiefly from 1933 to 1966, the collection contains typescript and handwritten drafts of articles, reviews, novels, plays, short stories, and speeches; reference materials; and correspondence that document Pearl Buck's literary, political, and humanitarian activities from 1933 to 1976. ","Prominent topics include Buck's writing, including novels, short stories, articles, and speeches, and publication of her work; Chinese history, politics, and culture; American culture; interracial and international adoption; children with disabilities; and Buck's work for human rights. ","Prominent correspondents include Richard Walsh, William E. Hocking, and various authors and politicians. Papers also include materials related to the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace and to other Chinese and American writers. ","Addenda include photos, correspondence, publications, drafts of Buck's work, ephemera, recordings, artifacts, and other material. ","For additional Pearl Buck material, see A\u0026M 4052, Pearl S. Buck, Author, Literary Manuscripts. ","There are twelve series in this collection, plus addenda. Most of the material in series 1-6 was written by Buck. ","Series 1. Articles; circa 1937-1944; box 1 - box 2, folder 39. \nSeries 2. Book Reviews; undated; box 2, folder 40-51.  \nSeries 3. Fiction; circa 1930-1960; box 2, folder 52 - box 5, folder 7. \nSeries 4. Biographical Writings; undated; box 5, folder 8 - box 6, folder 1. \nSeries 5. Book Manuscripts; undated; box 6, folder 2 - box 7B. \nSeries 6. Speeches; circa 1930-1969; box 8, folders 1-27. \nSeries 7. Reference Materials; circa 1937-1950s; box 8, folders 28-32. \nSeries 8. Miscellaneous Materials; circa 1900-1967, undated; box 9. \nSeries 9. Writings by Other Authors; 1930-1931, undated; box 10. \nSeries 10. James Comstock Collection; 1939-1970, undated; box 11. \nSeries 11. Addenda--Correspondence; 1933-1966, undated; boxes 12-14. \nSeries 12. Oversized; ca. 1930s-1970s, undated; box 28, folders 1-9. \nAddendum of 2006/05/22; 1948; box 34. \nAddendum of 2015/04/24; 1939-1988, undated; box 14, folder 14. \nAddendum of 2015/05/08; 1921-1945; boxes 15-24. \nAddendum of 2015/11/09; circa 1943; box 14, folder 15-19. \nAddendum of 2016/06/08; circa 2002; box 25. \nAddendum of 2017/04/10; circa 1937-1983; box 26, folders 1-3. \nAddendum of 2017/06/22; circa 1940-1983, undated; box 27, folders 1-17. \nAddendum of 2017/07/17; 2017; box 25. \nAddendum of 2017/07/28; 1983; box 25, folder 3. \nAddendum of 2017/08/07; circa 1941, 1982; box 28, folder 10. \nAddendum of 2017/08/22; 2010; box 26, folder 4. \nAddendum of 2018/02/27; 2015; box 26, folder 5. \nAddendum of 2018/05/23; undated; box 35, folder 4. \nAddendum of 2018/06/01; 1943-1962; box 35, folder 6. \nAddendum of 2018/08/16; 1932; box 35, folder 2. \nAddendum of 2018/08/17; 1942; box 35, folder 3. \nAddendum of 2019/02/18; 1973; box 29. \nAddendum of 2019/03/19; 2015-2018; boxes 30-31. \nAddendum of 2019/07/23; 2015-2018; boxes 32-33. \nAddendum of 2019/10/01; undated; box 34.  \nAddendum of 2020/08/17; 1946-1983; box 35, folder 5. \nAddendum of 2021/03/07; September 2015; box 32, folder 1. \nAddendum of 2021/04/28; circa 1971-1972; box 35, folder 1.  \nAddendum of 2023/07/30; 1938-1940 and undated; box 32, folder 2."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eOriginal signed letter from Buck to Mrs. Charles Wilde (1962) moved to A\u0026amp;M 435, Rare Signatures.\u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["Original signed letter from Buck to Mrs. Charles Wilde (1962) moved to A\u0026M 435, Rare Signatures."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. 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