Personal and collected correspondence, speeches and writings, news dispatches, interviews, reports, memoranda, organizational records, and photographs, relating to the Chinese communists; the industrial cooperative movement, student movement, and labor movement in China; the Sian incident, 1936; the Sino-Japanese Conflict; and Chinese art and literature. Wales was an American journalist and writer; member, Board of Directors, American Committee in Aid of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives, 1941-1951.