Correspondence, speeches and writings, memoranda, reports, diplomatic agreements, and photographs, relating to political and economic conditions in China during the 1930s and 1940s; Chinese foreign relations, especially with the United States; events in China during World War II; and wartime Chinese diplomacy, especially regarding Sino-American relations. Soong was Chinese statesman and banker; minister of finance, 1925-1933; personal representative of Chiang Kai-shek to Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940-1942; minister of foreign affairs, 1942-1945.