May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603

Sale 2603 - Lot 155

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
[Travel] Miller, Edward William (1898-1969)
Extensive Archive, Shanghai, 1935-1939.

Comprising six three-ring binders containing mainly detailed family correspondence written while Miller was stationed in Shanghai as a representative of the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly & Company;

[together with] an extensive typed biography of Miller;

correspondence from Eli Lilly & Co. regarding his employment;

[and] a bound volume of Oriental Affairs, a monthly review edited by H.G.W. Woodhead published in Shanghai, comprising the September-December, 1937 issues, titled Shanghai In Torment; the letters written by hand and typewritten, contents are a mix of family, business and international news during the period when the Japanese were taking over Shanghai.