Reminiscences of Dorothy Read Thomas : oral history, 1981.

Biographical Note

Interviewee married James A. Thomas.

Scope and Contents

Family background; early childhood in China, Boxer Rebellion, 1900; San Francisco earthquake and fire, 1905; education in France, women's suffrage movement in England; Russia during World War I and revolution; translator for United States military intelligence; social life in Washington, D.C.; social secretary, American Legation in Peking in the 1920s; marriage; recollections of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lansing and Mr. and Mrs. John Foster.

Subjects

• China--History--20th century.
• Interviews.
• Mason, John T., 1909-1998, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories.
• Russia--History--February Revolution, 1917.
• San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906.
• Thomas, Dorothy Read, 1892-1987.
• Washington (D.C.)--Social life and customs.

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