Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Meredith M. Jack collection comprises 10 folders containing letters, photographs, newspaper clippings, a telegram, and a telegraph. The letters are primarily from Meredith M. Jack to his family members (mother, father, sister, brother-in-law, and niece) from 1921-1922 (Folders 3-10). Folderd 1-2 contains a letter and photos from Helen Barcom Frary to Mrs. L. Foster Jack (Jack's mother) and envelopes (mainly from 1921 with the exception of one from 1925). The collection is...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Meredith M. Jack collection comprises 10 folders containing letters, photographs, newspaper clippings, a telegram, and a telegraph. The letters are primarily from Meredith M. Jack to his family members (mother, father, sister, brother-in-law, and niece) from 1921-1922 (Folders 3-10). Folderd 1-2 contains a letter and photos from Helen Barcom Frary to Mrs. L. Foster Jack (Jack's mother) and envelopes (mainly from 1921 with the exception of one from 1925). The collection is...

Scope and Contents Content Warning: Racist Descriptions/Stereotypes of and Terminology for Chinese People; References to Indentured Servitude of Chinese People; Derogatory Stereotype of New York Jewish People; Racist Description of Malayisan People; Derogatory Description of and Terminology for Dutch people.Jack writes more about his work and the trouble the company branch is facing. He also describes future travel plans; the horse races; Chinese, Malayasian, and Dutch people on Java (to whom the...

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Jack writes about going to Batavia (Indonesia) and Cheribon (Indonesia) for work and taking legal action against a company manager based in Bandoeng (Feenstra).

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Content Warning: Reference to Tobacco.

Jack writes a brief, transatlantic telegraph from Paris that he his having a good voyage and thanks Mildred for tobacco. (This likely means his sister's name is Mildred if the tobacco is the same as in "Well we pushed off last Wednesday.." [Monday 23, 1922 - Tuesday. 25.]).

Scope and Contents Content Warning: Racist Terminology for Japanese People; Derogatory Terminology for Italian or Spanish People; Derogatory Terminology for French People; Derogatory Stereotype of German People.Jack describes being in Alexandria, Egypt and seeing the Pillar of Pompheii (possibly Pompey's Pillar]), the Catacombs (possibly the Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa), a Spanish game that he called Pilota [Pelota]). He then writes that he had travelled on the S.S. Crook and had been in Cairo and...

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Jack describes receiving mail and the news he is an uncle to sister's daughter; sending a cable in response to his Dad's cable; his current work plans (including with agents in Batavia [Malaysia]; his future travel plans from Yokohama (Japan); flying in a plane with his friend, an English aviator; the landscape from an aerial view; and obtaining Batik fabric.

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Jack comments on arriving in Marseilles, his ship (Atsuta Maru) being delayed, and briefly visiting Cannes.

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Content Warning: Racist Stereotypes of Chinese People; Infantilization of Chinese Workers aboard the Ship

Jack writes about San Francisco, paricularly antiques and Chinatown (during which he uses racist stereotypes); the ship trip from San Francisco to Hawaii, including specific details of the ship, its passengers, staff (to whom the infantilization is applied), life aboard the ship, and the weather; and shipping more generally in the US.

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Jack comments on his work, American and British government involved in Java, the British government's stake in the Royal Dutch Co., letters from home, and travel plans.