Correspondence

The series includes letters from Honolulu and China sent by Yocom’s friend Yuk Kon Mau, dating from 1933 to 1936. Some of the letters enclosed small snapshots. Mau was a graduate in the Oberlin College Class of 1931, and attended Yenching University on scholarship in the 1933-34 academic year. She stayed on in China as evidenced by letters from 1935 and 1936. She wrote of friends in common working at Oberlin Shansi in Shanxi Province, and other friends in Oberlin. She mentions H. H. Kung, Oberlin graduate and former principal of the Oberlin Shansi schools, who gave the Commencement address at Yenching University in 1934 when he was Finance Minister of China.

Additional correspondence in the series is fragmentary, with holiday greeting letters from 1963 and 1964, and a few other letters by Mary Yocom and others.