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The Koinonia Community was a Christian farm community founded in 1942 in Americus (Sumter Co.), Ga., by Clarence and Florence Jordan and Martin and Mabel England. Collection comprises one article (1953, reprinted from MOTIVE magazine by the Board of Education of the Methodist Church), as well as two memoranda soliciting support for the community as a result of violence directed toward it during the 1950s because of its interracial composition.

Document on folded parchment, written in French, from Maltese branch of Knights Hospitaller. Content currently unknown. More modern stamp in blue ink on document indicates that the document was in the "Archives de l'Ordre Malthe."

The two letters seem to have been dictated, taken by Mr. Barth. Correspondents are a Mr. Coombes and a Mr. Burns.

Preprinted Jewish marriage certificate for bride Freyda Koyfman and groom Barukh Zilberglayt from the Galata and Beyoglu Eskenazi Society in Istanbul, Turkey. Stamped, sealed and signed.

Katsuichi Satow was a Japanese-American pastor interned at Gila River War Relocation Camp during World War II. The collection includes Satow's diaries, dating from 1938 through 1979.

ANS. Informs addressee that she was elected coroner the previous year.

Founded in 1864, the J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT) is one of the oldest and largest enduring advertising agencies in the United States. Thurman Pierce was an executive with JWT who served in a number of positions relating to market research and media.

Founded in New York, N.Y., in 1864, the J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT) is one of the world's oldest and largest enduring advertising agencies. The London Office first opened in 1899 and reopened in 1926, and was JWT's first international office as well as the first international office of any American advertising agency. Collection consists of binders of standard stationery forms authorized for use by JWT officials, departments and subsidiaries. It includes letterhead, business cards, access permits, work flow and process forms, booklet covers and other paper items. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.Cataloged from inventory.

Founded in 1864, the J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT) is one of the oldest and largest enduring advertising agencies in the United States. It is headquartered in New York. The London Office first opened in 1899. Harry MacAuslan was an executive with JWT London and later with Leo Burnett. Collection is comprised of a day file of correspondence that covers the years 1989-1992 when MacAuslan was a Director in the London Office. Topics include general management issues, pension plans, office renovations, new business prospects, and account management. Companies represented include ITV, Rowntree Mackintosh and TSB Bank. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

Founded in 1864, the J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT) is one of the oldest and largest enduring advertising agencies in the United States. Jack Stevens was Chairman and CEO of Deltakos, a JWT subsidiary focused on the science and medical industries. Deltakos, later known as the JWT Healthcare Group, was absorbed in a merger with Ferguson Communications in 1993.

ALS. Liebig refers to Henry's visit to Giessen and inquires after his visit to Paris. He suggests that Henry might be interested in pursuing Edmund Davy's research on gases.

Autograph prescription, signed.

ALS. Loder writes of his situation and that of friends and family during the Napoleonic Wars, from Narva in 1806 and from Moscow in 1813. In the first letter, he bemoans the defeat of the German states; mentions the student unrest at the University of Halle and the subsequent closing of the university as yet another setback for the German nation; and sees Russia as the only "nation" which can now hope to defeat Napoleon. Loder, educated in Germany, was born in Riga, Estonia, and thus could be considered a Russian. In the second letter, he expresses fierce Russian nationalist sentiments, for which uncharacteristic effusions he explains that he cannot give reasons in writing. Probably he meant to appease the Russian censors. In this letter he details his efforts to organize and oversee the operation of the field hospital in Kassimoff and describes Moscow before and after the siege.

June Blum is a feminist artist and curator, and was at the forefront of the women's art movement in New York City in the 1960s-1970s. Accession (2009-0174) (150 items; 0.6 lin. ft.; dated 1960s-2005) includes biographies and articles about Blum, programs and announcements from gallery shows she curated or participated in, and some photocopied newspaper articles about her role in the women's art movement. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.

Collection consists of incoming correspondence (1988-1998) to Julia Nunnally Duncan from North Carolina poet and author Fred Chappell.

The Black Graduate and Professional Student Association (BGPSA) exists to "address the needs and concerns of minority graduate and professional students and to promote diversity within the Duke University community." It received its charter around 2003. Collection contains material pertaining to the planning and execution of the First Annual Julian Abele Awards and Recognition Banquet, held 21 April 1989, which was established by the BGPSA.

2 letters (ALS). One is a certificate to commit a female patient.

ANS. Informs addressee that he will be detained by an operation and thus will not be able to meet at the appointed time.

Holograph, signed. Certifies that M. Truinet suffers from various physical ailments which warrant his release from service in the national guard.

Letter (ALS) relating to a request for a letter of recommendation.

AMS. Royle's detailed report to Adam, Secretary to the Medical Board, Fort William, of the death from cholera of surgeon Henry Cavell.

2 holograph manuscripts; clean copies, with some corrections. "Visit to the Zurich School" is a transcript (30 pp.) of interviews with members of the "Zurich School" of psychoanalysis, including C.G. Jung, Oskar Robert Pfister, Alphonse Maeder, Paul Federn, Emil Oberholzer and Eugen Bleuler. "My analysis with Freud" is a transcript (44 pp.) of 15 sittings with Sigmund Freud. Stirling-Gilchrist claims to be a student of W.H.R. Rivers.

ALS. Asks for information on the working of the Common School System of Syracuse, New York.

ALS to a prospective patient and a holograph prescription, signed.

ALS. Conveys his willingness to collaborate in the preparation of the Dictionary.

Collection comprises 9 pages of medical case notes for eight individuals, seven of whom required surgery. One case history is incomplete. There are men and women, adults and children, and black and white individuals among the patients. Appendicitis was the most common complaint, but there is mention of gangrene, bladder trouble, and Pott's disease. Case notes include name of patient, symptoms and past treatment, and details of the operation, although no mention of the success of the procedure is provided.

ALS. Discusses the relative merits of Cassels' and the salt pack methods in the treatment of fractures.

Bridge builder; resident of Staunton, Va. Collection comprises a photgraph album probably compiled by Hamrick, who built trestles and railroad bridges all over the South. Includes 339 photographs, including 333 black-and-white gelatin prints (possibly matte collodion prints), as well as 6 cyanotypes, primarily of concrete-and-metal bridges constructed in Mississippi, Louisiana, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Alabama, as well as a few shots of construction sites in British Columbia. Many of the images, but not all, contain brief identifying markings made in pencil or pen on the surface of the photograph. Sizes range from 3"x2.5" to 4.5"x6.5, with several attempts by Hamrick to create "panoramic" views by pasting two images together. Large sections of the album are devoted to the Whitney and South Fork bridges in North Carolina, but topics generally include construction scenes in various stages of completion; work crews, engineers, and surveying teams; camps and homesteads used as residences, and family life there. The majority of the photographs date between 1903 and 1914, with only 3 shots dating from 1946. There are also images taken during excursions; for instance, to St. Augustine, Fla.; Mardi Gras in New Orleans (1906); and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis (1904). There are also unidentified groups of young people, including possibly a women's school, "Rockdale" (in Ga.?), as well as a few clearly marked images of parties and a football game at Virginia Polytechnical Institute.

Lieutenant Enos Reeves served in the Pennsylvania Line during the Revolutionary War, and later worked as a silversmith in South Carolina. This collection consists of three volumes from an original set of journals he kept as letterbooks documenting his activities during his Continental Army service, between 1780 and 1782. Topics include troop reviews by George Washington, the treason of Benedict Arnold, the execution of Major John Andre, the Battle of King's Mountain, the seige of Yorktown, and troop movements, discipline, and encampments. Reeves describes a visit to the army camp by the Oneida and other Indigenous nations, including their leader Akiatonharónkwen (John Louis Cook, who Reeves describes as "Colonel Lewis"). Reeves' letterbooks also discuss his encounters with enslaved people and his opinion that slavery was "a great sin" but that "it would be some what difficult to alter it at the present." Also present in the journals are his accounts of his entertainments, flirtations with various women, dinners with officers, and social engagements, including a "genteel country dance" where the men dressed and danced in women's clothes.

English businessman and schoolmaster. Manuscript journal written in 25 annual vols. of Lett's Diary. Years included are 1859, 1861-1879, and 1900-1904. Volume 1870 has been rehoused into 7 different parts.

"Stewardess" aboard the ship; resident of Grimsby[?], England Collection comprises a manuscript journal and log book (59 pgs+ blanks) authored by Thompson while on a voyage between England and Jamaica from March 25 to April 28, 1935. However, the journal actually closes with a description of her train trip home on April 29. Includes Thompson's 33 black-and-white photographs, 2 telegrams she received from a Captain Greenhill, her certificate of discharge, and an Irish sweepstakes ticket for the Derby syndicate (dated June 5) that she purchased during the voyage. In addition, Thompson copied into the journal a 3-pg informational article on bananas, written by H.C. Bower, and kept a record of the ship's log for the trip. The S.S. Tetela was a cargo and occasional passenger ship that belonged to the banana-importing firm Elders & Fyffes, a wholly owned subsidiary of the United Fruit Company.

Thomas C. McCollom was a resident of Cambridge, Mass., b. May 9, 1847. Collection comprises the journal (104 pgs.) McCollom maintained daily while voyaging to and from the West Indies, Feb 21-May 18, 1865, when he was between the ages of 17 and 18. The ship was the schooner D. L. Sturgis; with five crew members and its captain, Daniel Deasy. It appears McCollom undertook the journey for the improvement of his health, and the majority of his entries detailed the depression, homesickness, and boredom he experienced during the trip, "I can't tell why but I feel homesick and blue. I have such days now quite often though not so often as formerly. I shan't be sorry to get home I know. I don't know what to do with myself when I feel so. I find that writing home or in this journal is about as good a cure as anything. I feel better to express my feeling somehow if only to write them down here (pp. 25-26)." McCollom also described crew members' activities (including one man's drowning after an accident, p. 5), the weather and wind patterns, the difficulties of the Atlantic Ocean crossing and vagaries of the Caribbean Sea, and any birds and animals seen. He also identified any ships encountered, usually with their nationality, destination, and any cargo being transported.

ALS. Writes that he is fearful of being removed from his office of Superintendent of Registration on the Boston Sanitary Commission as a consequence of his signing a petition requesting a Board of Health. Asks that Walker speak to Secretary of State Warner or Governor Andrew on his behalf. Gives names of others who support his cause. Encloses a copy of a letter from William B. Calhoun, addressed to Warner, arguing his case.

Josiah Clark Nott was a surgeon, ethnologist, and enslaver with a medical practice in Mobile, Alabama. Collection consists of two letters and one note, written by Nott from Mobile. The 1839 letter speaks of payment for services and financial difficulties; the 1855 letter comments favorably on a work by Arthur de Gobineau on the theory of racial differences, published in French in the U.S. in 1855, which upheld the superiority of the "Aryan race" and thus promoted slavery as a just and moral system. Nott mentions in the 1855 letter that he had hired a "young friend" to help with the translation of Gobineau's work into English, which was published in 1856 in a much shortened and edited form. The undated note asks about the suitability of evening attire. Acquired as part of the Trent Collection, History of Medicine Collections at Duke University.

Document, signed. Certificate of the Massachusetts Medical Society, that Josiah Lamson is qualified to practice medicine. Signed by, among others, Josiah Bartlett and Aaron Dexter.

ALS. Writes of the circumstances of the death of Grier's son in the explosion of The Miami.

ALS. Root writes of his practice among the poor of Chile, of the small pox epidemic, and of his travels in South America.

ALS. Sends pamphlets on alcoholism and the medical jurisprudence of alcoholism.

Autograph document, signed. Certificate gives age, residence and illness of a William Stevenson.

ALS. A letter of recommendation for a former student, Dr. Bertolet.

ANS. Returning thanks for congratulations upon investiture as baron.

A letter (ALS) of sympathy on the occasion of the death of the addressee's mother-in-law. A biographical note accompanies letter.

ALS to Thomas Aspinwall and to William Jenkins Worth relating to accounts and expenses to be paid by the Surgeon General's Office.

ALS. Writes on personal affairs.

ANS, including a request to attend his dying daughter, and a recommendation of a M. Vautrin.

Joseph Allred (1772-1856) and his wife, Rachel (1773-1856), were residents of Randolph County, North Carolina. Collection comprises primarily business correspondence, along with legal documents and some personal correspondence, for Joseph Allred and various Allred family members. The collection also features two letters written by enslaved people owned by the Allred family. There is a Allred genealogy prepared by a family member that further details relationships and events outlined in the collection, especially with regard to enslaved people.

ALS. Phipps inquires about various book subscriptions.

Autograph and holograph documents, signed, for receipt of funds from Jonathan Trumbull for the running of the General Hospital in the Northern District. Both documents also bear receipts on the reverse side.

ALS. Writes of the reception of one of his books.

ALS. Instructions for the forwarding of some books and for the purchase of a map of the Hudson River.

ALS. Welcomes Dr. O'Callaghan's "Documentary history of New York", sent to him by Randall, as a fitting tribute to the greatness of the state and mentions his own part in promoting work on the Erie Canal.

Holograph document, signed by Weitzel. Statement of amount due to physician John Weitzel for attendance and medicine to two wounded men at prison district 96 in South Carolina.

License to practice "physic, surgery, and midwifery" in the state of New York.

ALS. Reports no great change in the condition of a Miss Andrews and prescribes various medicines.

ALS. Tyndall inquires after "the character of the instruction" received by the two sons of a deceased acquaintance.

ALS. Proposal to erect a monument in honor of the passage of the Reform Bill.

ALS. Papers consist mostly of letters written to Torrey by professional colleagues, botanists and geologists involved in exploration and surveyor expeditions. Notable correspondents include Louis Agassiz, A.D. Bache, Spencer Fullerton Baird, George Bentham, Jacob Bigelow, James Dwight Dana, William Darlington, Amos Eaton, Ebenezer Emmons, Asa Gray, A. Guyot, Robert Hare, Joseph Henry, Edward Hitchcock, John Lindley, Josiah Clark Nott, C.S. Rafinesque, and John White Webster. A complete list of correspondents is available.

2 letters (TLS). Billings, as Director of the New York Public Library, makes bids for some documents and manuscripts offered by Benjamin to the Library.

Holograph receipt, signed by John S. Jewett for payments received for Dr. John Sears from the town of Sharon.

ALS. An enthusiastic response to Barton's efforts to introduce citrus fruits and fruit juices into the diet of Navy servicemen as a preventive against scurvy.

MS. A report of the findings of the investigation by a deputation of the Royal Jennerian Society into the reputed failure of vaccination in Cambridge. The investigators consider the claims of Sir Isaac Pennington, an opponent of vaccination. The report is also signed by Frederick Thackeray and Hugh Blair.

Letter (ALS) of reference for Mr. Andrew Ellicot Kennedy.

This typed transcript copy of a letter from Bumgarner to Davison, made for Mrs. Trent, was removed from the "Bataan" copy of Davison's "Compleat Pediatrician", a volume in the Historical Collection, call number "II Davison". The letter relates that Bumgarner made much use of the book during the WWII campaign in the Pacific.

ALS. Writes of cases of rupture of the uterus and provides the details of one particular case.

3 ALS. Inquires after mutual friends, among them George Pearson. Offers an account of his travels in eastern Europe, of his efforts to promote vaccination, of his research and experiments, and of the progress of the Napoleonic Wars.

Holograph letter, unsigned. Relates how the yellow fever epidemic has affected neighbors and acquaintances. Reports that many conceal their illness for fear of being carried to and dying in Bellevue Hospital.

2 ALS and a newspaper clipping. Ordronaux, then State Commissioner in Lunacy, writes to William Fairfield Warren, president of Boston University, that he must postpone his lectures in law at Boston University. He attaches a newspaper clipping which relates that a report critical of the management of the State Lunatic Asylum had been presented, but that the signatures of the doctors presenting the report had apparently been forged.

3 letters (ALS) to Seaver relating to personal and professional matters.

ALS. Petitions for the institution of Welsh language instruction in schools and the use of the Welsh language in courts and churchs in those areas where the majority of the populace speaks only Welsh.

ALS. Writes on his novels Zeluco and Edward. On the reverse is a note that the letter was received of Captain Graham Moore, 1798, May 16.

ALS. Writes to Mr. J. Robinson and Mr. Stockdale respectively regarding his account and the sale of his work.

ALS. Writes regarding the settlement of an estate.

ALS. Asks whether Thacher received a parcel of books and articles sent to him by way of his neighbor.

ALS to S.B. Buckley. Riddell writes of his herbarium of Louisiana and Texas plants. Also an autographed title page of Riddell's Introductory lecture on our knowledge of nature, the natural sciences etc.

Papers consist of three types of material: correspondence, loose manuscript leaves, and ms. notebooks. Correspondence consists of letters written by Sayer, his wife, Sarah A. Sayer, and the Superintendent at the Asylum, John Gray, during Sayer's stay at the Asylum. Loose manuscripts consist of miscellaneous notes, a poem, Sayer's teacher certification, and the school lists of both Sayer and his wife, then Sarah Ann Bennet. Notebooks: "Sketches of life" (a journal, tp., 23 pp., 1842-1859); "A book intended for writings" (notebook of essays and poems, tp., 23 pp., 1837); and an algebra notebook (tp., 85 pp., 1833) with notes on town bonds at the end (3 pp., 1872).

Mitchell corresponds with Oliver Wendell Holmes and Jacob Whitman Bailey regarding his book, On the cryptogamous origin of malarious and epidemic fevers. Papers also include a line drawing, removed from Mitchell's son's copy of Gower's lectures on the diagnosis of diseases of the brain, pub. 1885; a letter of recommendation for Andrew Ellicott Kennedy; and printed sheet music, Oh! Fly to the prairie, with lyrics by Mitchell.

Autograph signature on a small card.

ALS. Latane responds to Jacobs' inquiries regarding a 1797 letter by Benjamin Rush on slavery. In his opinion, "the framers of the Constitution seem to have regarded slavery as a dying institution, but the invention of the cotton-gin in 1793 gave it a new lease on life."

Chiefly consists of correspondence of John Hendricks Kinyoun (1825-1903), physician and surgeon in the Confederate Army. Correspondence between Kinyoun and his wife, Elizabeth A. (Conrad) Kinyoun, during the Civil War discusses camp life; the health of the troops; supplies; his work in Winder Hospital, Richmond, Virginia; troop movements and military engagements, especially of the 28th North Carolina Volunteers and the 66th North Carolina Infantry; the Siege of Petersburg; and his views on the Confederacy and its cause. The earliest letter, 1851, from Kinyoun while a student in college, describes a meeting of the American Colonization Society. There are also letters written to the Kinyouns after they moved to Missouri; and a folder of writings which includes a political speech, 1896, by Kinyoun criticizing the Cleveland administration and espousing the free silver doctrine.

ALS. Inquiring after Curtis' application for the position of "aurist" to the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland.

ALS to Harley. S.W. Moore writes on the physiological chemistry of the brain. Sir Thomas Smith (1833-1909) of King's College, Edinburgh, writes on pharmacology.

Holograph document, signed. Deed for a grant of land. On verso, a receipt for quit rent due on the granted, dated 1739, and a certificate of entry in the Office for Recording of Deeds, dated 1755.

John Grant Chapman was a lawyer and U.S. Representative from Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland, active from the 1820s-1840s. Collection consists chiefly of business letters, combined with a small amount of personal correspondence. The collection includes a number of items relating to Thomas Yates Robey, also from Charles County, Maryland, possibly a relative or business client.

ALS. Fothergill comments upon a volume sent him by Emanual Mendez da Costa, foreign secretary of the Royal Society of London. Da Costa writes in reply. His letter bears no signature.

John Flannery and Company was a partnership of commission merchants, of Savannah, Ga. and was originally known as L. J. Guilmartin & Co. The records become those of John Flannery and Co. comprised of John L. Johnson and John Flannery after June 1877. This collection contains business papers of L. J. Guilmartin & Co., 1867-1877, and after 1877, of John Flannery and Co., cotton factors, commission merchants, and agents for several manufacturing concerns. Correspondence, principally with merchants and farmers in Georgia and Florida, concerns the purchase and sale of cotton, and to a lesser extent, other commodities, loans on crops, prices of cotton and other commodities, a government tax on cotton, 1867, and speculation in cotton.

ALS. Recommends a Mr. Dodd to James Buchanan, Esq.

Lawyer of Charleston (Charleston Co.), S.C. Represented the county for two terms in the state's general assembly; member of the Confederate Army's German Artillery; and member of the Charleston City Council under T.T. Hyde. Also, officer in the National German American Alliance and active in the United Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the South. Married Julia Pieper in 1882. Collection primarily comprises printed material related to John D. Cappelmann's numerous activities. Includes advertisements, church bulletins, invitations, tickets, and programs for balls, orations, literary society meetings, concerts, dances, baccalaureate exercises, recitals, and bicycle races. In addition, there are notices for events and general orders concerning the German Artillery, as well as information on other Confederate memorial events. There are also drafts of legislation for the General Assembly; copies of Charleston City Council minutes, local election campaign materials, bank organizing documents, as well as annual reports and other records regarding the Carolina Mutual Insurance Company, Parker Cotton Mills Company, and the Georgia State Building & Loan Association of Savannah. Charleston organizations represented include the Star Gospel Mission, and The Knights of Pythias; other organizations represented include the YMCA and the German University League. Topics of interest include the peace movement during World War I; the anti-German and anti-German American sentiment of the period; Lutheranism in the early twentieth-century South, especially regarding the Sunday School movement. The collection contains only a few personal letters written to Cappelmann; the majority of letters to him contain solicitations for monetary support, mostly to benefit various local and national Lutheran entities. A few items reference Cappelmann's children, John D., F. William, E. Henry, and Gertrude. Contains several items published in German, as well as a folder of biographical information. Several items postdate Cappelmann's death, and their immediate connection to the collection is unclear.

ALS, including a description of the Siamese twins Chang and Eng, prescriptions and a letter of recommendation, and newspaper clippings of obituary notices.

Holograph receipt, signed, for forage. ALS relating to Cochran's orders to Dr. John Warren. Cochran explains that he was unaware that his orders conflicted with those issued by the addressee. A reprint of an article by T. Wood Clarke from the New York State Journal of Medicine gives biographical information.

ALS from Lettsom to Miss Warren briefly mentions Thomas Joseph Pettigrew. 4 ALS to Lettsom from various correspondents, B. Wilmer, L. Maclean, J. Murphy and W. May, relate to the Medical Society of London. A transcription, in an anonymous hand, of abolitionist verse by Lettsom is followed by a description of the setting of the gathering at which the verses were presented. On the verso of this is an autograph note, signed by Benjamin Wilson, 1801.

License to practice as an apothecary in any part of England and Wales.

A collection of letters (ALS) from Brown, including a letter from Brown's grandfather, the Rev. John Brown; photostats, including one of the first page of the first edition of Brown's "Horae subsecivae"; and holograph notes in an anonymous hand.

2 documents, signed, appointing Henry Adams as Coroner of Norfolk County and John Rollins as Division Inspector of the Second Division of the Militia. Both documents are also signed by Alden Bradford, as Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Collection contains personal and business correspondence, and accounts and genealogical records of the Bonsack and Plaine families, connected by marriage. Included are letters from family members in schools in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New York. Included also are letters concerning woolen factories in Good Intent, Va., 1862, and at Bonsack, Va., during the 1880s. There are also references to David H. Plaine's work as a churchman, teacher, and politician in and around Roanoke, Va.; accounts of Jacob Bonsack, a merchant in Good Intent, Va., and accounts of Harry E. Plaine, a hardware dealer in Broken Bow, Neb., during the 1880s. About fifty letters, 1786-1851, are written in German to the two John Bonsacks, father (1760-1795) and son (1781-1859).

Manuscript "Observations on cholera", by Bell and dedicated to Chelius, is accompanied by letter (ALS). Letter was orignally tipped into manuscript.

Letter (ALS). Writes to London bookseller, Mr. Bell, in regard to "this" book, probably his "Engravings of the bones, muscles, and joints."

John A. Stewman served as an engineer with the Duke Construction Company from 1928-1932. The collection includes photographs, drawings, and specs. The material ranges in date from about 1926-1932.

3 letters (ALS) and an engraved portrait of Armstrong. One letter details dinner at the Shakespeare Inn.

Letters (ALS) to Anthony Panizzi, regarding Panizzi's articles on Rosetti and Boniface, and to Archibald Glen, placing an order for a book, Davis' Chinese.