Robert B. Walkinshaw papers

Robert B. Walkinshaw papers, 1903-1963

Overview of the Collection

Creator

Walkinshaw, Robert B. (Robert Boyd), 1884-1963

Title

Robert B. Walkinshaw papers

Dates

1903-1963 (inclusive)

Quantity

4.68 cubic feet (7 boxes)

Collection Number

5568 (Accession No. 5568-001)

Summary

Papers of a local author, lawyer, mountaineer and local historian, and drawings created by his wife

Repository

University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu

Access Restrictions

Open to all users.

Records are stored off site; advance notice required for use.

Additional Reference Guides

Languages

English

Sponsor

Funding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Robert Boyd Walkinshaw (1884-1963) was an author, lawyer, mountaineer, and local historian.He was born in Millwood, Pennsylvania and graduated from the College of Wooster as a Phi Beta Kappa member. Following graduation, Walkinshaw toured Europe from the summer of 1906 to 1907 generating a lengthy diary of his travels. Upon his return, Walkinshaw began to study law and was awarded his degree from Columbia University in 1911, writing his thesis on the “Taxation of Government Agencies.” He married Jeanie Mayer Walter (1885-1976) on June 10, 1914 in Baltimore, Maryland. They had two children, Walter and Valerie.

From 1912 to 1916 Walkinshaw practiced law in Tacoma, Washington. He and Jeanie moved to Seattle in 1917. He was a member of the Rainier Club, the Monday Club and the Seattle King County, Washington State, and American Bar Associations. His article, "The Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials: Another Step Toward International Justice" was published in The American Bar Association Journal in 1949. Walkinshaw was awarded an honorary law degree from College of Wooster in 1955.

Walkinshaw wrote a local historical and geographical work called, On Puget Sound in 1929, reprinted in 1951. Jeanie’s sketches provided the illustrations for On Puget Sound. Jeanie studied art in Paris for two years under Lucien Seimon and Rene Mesnard. She returned to the United States in 1911 where continued her studies with Robert Henri. Jeanie was also an active member of the Seattle community serving as chairman of sketchers, under the arts and skills department of the King County Chapter of the American Red Cross and a representative of Seattle and the Northwest for Portraits, Inc. She was a member of the National Association of Women Artists, The National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, Salons of America, Pacific Northwest Academy for the Arts, and Women Painters of Washington.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The collection contains manuscript drafts, folios, publications, diaries, notes, personal and professional correspondence, legal documents, clippings, photographs, negatives, slides, sketches, prints, sound recordings on LP and tape, ephemera, speeches, financial records, posters, maps, and itineraries. A small portion of the papers are Jeanie’s sketches and materials relating to her.

Contents include materials generated while he was a student at the College of Wooster and material relating to his honorary law degree and alumni involvement (1903-1955). Papers from a European tour (1906-1907) consist mostly of correspondence, an itinerary, and a diary of his travels. Minimal papers from Columbia University consist of alumni newsletters and a copy of his master’s thesis (1911-1929). Professional papers include legal documents, letters, financial documents, and publications from a court case in which he represented the Russian Greek Orthodox Catholic Church in Seattle (1923-1930), as well as other miscellaneous documents and letters from his law practice. Walkinshaw's writing career is represented mainly by material concerning On Puget Sound, including correspondence, drafts, sketches, and prints of the drawings (1927-1961). Additionally, materials and drafts of his essay on the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials (1944-1949) and for a speech he gave on Woodrow Wilson (1916-1926) and "The Study of Foreign Languages" (1934-1935) are included. There are a variety of writing files ranging from clippings, notes, and lists of words and phrases (1917-1961).

The collection contains personal correspondence and documents relating to Robert and Jeanie’s home life, as well as documents and publications relating to Seattle. There are publications, documents, menus, and diaries relating to Robert’s mountaineering and membership in the Rainier club (1930-1963) as well as correspondence and minutes relating to the Monday Club (1936-1940).

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

The creators' literary rights have been transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Arranged into 19 series:

Biographical
College of Wooster
Russian Church Case
Law Career
On Puget Sound
Other Writings
Writing Files
Personal Papers
Four Minute Men
"The Study of Foreign Languages"
Columbia University
European Travels
Mountaineering
Monday Club
"The Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials"
"Woodrow Wilson"
Jeannie Walkinshaw
Miscellaneous
Speeches

Preservation Note

Records are stored off site; advance notice required for use.

Acquisition Information

Source: Jean Walkinshaw, December 08, 2009

Processing Note

Processed by Deb Hamilton and Susan Kemp in 2010.

Separated Materials

7 boxes of stereographic plates from Walkinshaw's book, On Puget Sound were separated from the papers and given to the Book Arts Collection.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

BiographicalReturn to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
1/1	Obituary	1963
1/2	Photograph-National Cyclopedia of American Biography	undated
1/3	Photograph	undated

College of WoosterReturn to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
1/4	Correspondence-1905 Selby Frame Vance Fund	1956-1957
1/5	Card	1954
1/6	Publication- Wooster Alumni Bulletin Vol. XLII, No. 10	1930
1/7	Report on Commencement	undated
1/8	Clippings- Wooster Alumni Bulletin	1950-1962
1/9	Publications- Wooster Alumni Bulletin Vol. LV, No. 9	1941
1/10	Publications- Wooster Alumni Bulletin Vol. 64, No. 10	1950
1/11	Images of Campus	1947
1/12	Photograph-[Herbi Blankenherz ?]	1906
1/13-14	Photograph-Robert B. Walkinshaw	undated
1/15	Photograph-William C. Falconer	1905
1/16	Photograph-Earnest A. Okori	1906
1/17	Clippings-Debate	1904-1905
1/18	Publications- Wooster Alumni Bulletin Vol. 76, No. 6	1962
1/19	Publications- Wooster Alumni Bulletin Vol. 76, No. 9
1/20	Publications- Wooster Alumni Bulletin Vol. 69, No. 10	1955
1/21	Publications- Wooster Alumni Bulletin Vol. 52, No. 3	1959
1/22	Clippings- Wooster Bulletin	1947-1948
1/23	Program-Commencement-Honorary Doctor of Laws	1955
1/24-25	Correspondence	1941-1951, 1955
1/26-27	Documents	1955
1/28	Program-Commencement	1950
1/29	Program-Alumni Association Annual Dinner	1955
1/30	Program-College Night	1905
1/31	Program-Memorial for W.J. Boone	1936
1/32	Program-Baccalauraeate Services	1955
1/33	Clippings	undated
1/34	Notebooks	1903, undated
1/35	Photograph	1900-1901
1/36	Clippings- Wooster Alumni Bulletin	1928-1930
1/37	Bulletin-Baccalaureate Address	1946
1/38	Bulletin-The College of Wooster, 36th Series, No. 9	1943
1/39	Publications- Wooster Alumni Bulletin Vol. 69, No. 10	1955
1/40-41	Publications- Wooster Alumni Bulletin Vol. 64, No. 10	1950
1/42	Convocation Address	1929
1/43	Publications- Wooster Alumni Bulletin Vol. 69, No. 10	1955
1/44	Clipping- "The Wooster Voice"	1905
1/45	Citations-Commencement	1955
1/46	Response-Commencement	1955
1/47	Clippings	1940-1955
1/48	Ephemera	1950-1955
1/49	Program-Commencement	1955
box-folder:oversize
7/8-9	Photograph-Reunion	1955
7/10	Photograph	undated
7/11	Photographs	1955
7/12	Photographs-Fire	1901
7/13	Photograph-Band	undated
7/14	Photograph-Tiefent Gang	1901-1902
7/15	Photograph	undated
7/16	Sound Recording-LP "Response of RBW to Presentation of Medals"	undated

Russian Church CaseReturn to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
1/50	List-Properties Belonging to Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church in Alaska	undated
1/51	Legal Documents	1924
1/52	Legal Documents-Appearance	1924
1/53	Correspondence and Billing	1924-1925
1/54-59	Correspondence	1923-1930
1/60	Publication- Decrees and Constitution of Soviet Russia	1926
1/61	Legal Documents	1926
1/62	Legal Documents-Bylaws	1925
1/63	Documents and Correspondence	1924-1925
1/64	Notes	1929, undated
1/65	Telegrams	1924
1/66	Resolution and Minutes	1923-1924
1/67	Notes and Memos	undated
1/68	Legal Documents	1924-1930
1/69	Pamphlet- Russian Greek Orthodox Catholic Church of America	1926
1/70	Notes-Found in Court of Appeals-Kedrovsky v. Rojdesvensky and Turkevich between pages 220 and 221	undated
1/71	Documents-Found in Court of Appeals-Kedrovsky v. Rojdesvensky and Turkevich between pages 2 and 3	1923-1926
1/72	Publication- The New York Supplement	1926
1/73-75	Legal Documents-Kedrovsky Case	1923-1924
1/76	Legal Documents-Exhibits	1924
1/77	Legal Documents-Subpoenas	1924
box-folder:oversize
7/5	Publication- Court of Appeals of the State of NY-Kedrovsky v. Rojdesvensky and Turkevich	1924
7/6	Legal Documents-Articles of Incorporation	undated
7/7	Clippings	1924-1927

Law CareerReturn to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
1/78	Notes and Correspondence	1937-1952
1/79	Publication, In the Supreme Court of the United States Brief in Opposition to Petition for Writ of Certiorari and Conditional Cross-Petition for Certiorari	1955
1/80	Publication, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Court No. 14293 Brief of Appelles	1955
1/81	Publication, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Court No. 14293 Supplemental memo of Appelles	1955
1/82	Publication, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Court No. 14293	1955
1/83	Publication, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Court No. 14293	1955
1/84	Publication, In the Supreme Court of the State of Washington Brief of Respondants Elliot and Elliot	1936
1/85	Documents and Correspondence	1937

On Puget Sound Return to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
2/1	Complete Draft	undated
2/2	List and Draft pages for Drawings	undated
2/3	List of Corrections	undated
2/4	Draft of Ch. I	undated
2/5	Draft of Ch. IV	undated
2/6-7	Draft of Ch VIII	undated
2/8	Drafts of Ch. IX	undated
2/9-11	Draft Pages-Unordered	undated
2/12	Speech to Chamber of Commerce	1930
2/13	Pamphlet- Washington Book List	1961
2/14	Notes	undated
2/15	Correspondence and Revised Chapter	1949
2/16	Documents and Correspondence	1929-1951
2/17	Publication, Fourth Report and Proceedings British Columbia Historical Association	1929
2/18	Publication, The British Columbia Historical Quarterly Vol. VI, No. 1	1942
2/19	Correspondence	1927-1948
2/20	Clippings	1930
box-folder:oversize
5/9	Folios	1929
5/10	Clippings-Reviews	1929-1930
5/11	Drawings	undated
5/12-13	Prints of Drawings	1930, undated

Other WritingsReturn to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
2/21	Brochure- Centennial Seattle-Excerpt written by Walkinshaw	1952
2/22	Draft- This Pestilent Pedagogue	undated
2/23	Manuscripts and Drafts-Poetry	1908, undated
2/24	Memoirs-"My Life Chart"	1909

Writing FilesReturn to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
2/25-27	Clippings and Notes	1927-1933, 1950
box-folder:oversize
6/1	Word Lists, Clippings and Maps	undated
6/2	Phrase Lists and Clippings	undated
6/3	Clippings-Foldered	1917-1926
6/4	Clippings-Humor	undated
6/5	Clippings-Poetry	1917-1921
6/6	Clippings-Writings by Ben Hur Lampman	1933
6/7	Clippings-Quotations and Notes	undated
6/8	Clippings-Prose and Discussions	1917-1926
6/9-11	Clippings-Miscellaneous	1934-1961, undated
6/12	Notes	undated

Personal PapersReturn to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
2/28	Correspondence -Reinoehl	1922-1959
2/29-32	Correspondence -Reinoehl	1925-1962, undated
2/33-38	Documents and Correspondence	1927-1945
2/39	Reading List	undated
2/40	Notebook-Reading Notes	undated
2/41	Publication- Manual for the Holy Eucharist Confirmation	1924
2/42	Log-Art Accounts	1954-1963
2/43	Notebook-Gardening and Others	1944, undated
2/44	Clippings-Walkinshaw in Who's Who	1930
2/45	Notes-Geneology	1948, undated
2/46	Notes-Excerpts from John C. Walkinshaw's Diary	undated
2/47	Notes-Slide show of farm	1950
2/48	Notes	1950
2/49-51	Notes-Greek Translations	undated
2/52	Documents and Letters- Geneology	1933-1938
box-folder:oversize
7/1	Legal Documents and Notes	1926-1944
7/2	Documents and Letters	1925-1958

Four Minute MenReturn to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
3/1	Ephemera-FRAGILE!	1917-1918
3/2	Periodical- Four Minute Men News Edition F. Dec. 24	1918
3/3	Correspondence and Certificate	1918-1919
3/4	Speeches	1917

"The Study of Foreign Languages"Return to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
3/5	Correspondence	1934-1935
3/6	Invitation	1935
3/7	Speech	1935

Columbia UniversityReturn to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
3/8	Master's Thesis, Taxation of Governmental Agencies	1911
3/9	Correspondence	1911
3/10	Publication, Columbia Alumni News Vol. 10, No. 1	1918
3/11	Publication, President's Annual Report (Fragment)	1928
3/12	Publication, Columbia Alumni News	1929

European TravelsReturn to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
3/13	Itinerary	1906-1907
3/14-15	Correspondence-Papa, Mamie, and Hugh	1906-1907
3/16	Correspondence-Dr. and Mrs. Holden	1907
3/17	Diary and Maps	1906
3/18	Diary and Photograph	1906-1907
3/19	Diary and Clipping	1906-1907
3/20-24	Diary	1906-1907

MountaineeringReturn to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
3/25	Documents and Notes-Council of Soyp	1933-1942
3/26-27	Publications- The Book of Soyp with photograph and inscribed cover	1936
3/28-29	Publications- The Book of Soyp	1956
3/30	Menus-Rainier Club-March 24th	1951, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1960
3/31	Documents and Notes on Ascents of Mt. Rainier	1930-1931
3/32	Diary-Olympic Trip	1924
3/33	Publications and ephemera, The Mountaineers	1935
3/34	Catalog-Camtors	1928
box-folder:oversize
5/1	Card and Clipping	1930

Monday ClubReturn to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
3/35	Publication- Thirty Years of the Monday Club of Seattle	1936
3/36-45	Minutes and Correspondence	1931-1940

"The Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials"Return to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
3/46	Publication, The American Bar Association Journal Vol. 35, No. 4 RBW's article on page 299	1949
3/47	Correspondence	1944-1947
3/48	Correspondence and Publication- A Design for a Charter of the General International Organization	1944
3/49-50	Manuscripts and Notes	undated
3/51	Publication- Opening Address for the U.S.A. by Hon. Robert H. Jackson at the Trail of War Criminals at Nuremberg	undated
3/52	Publication- Trial of Japanese War Criminals-Annotated	1946
3/53	Publication- Trial of War Criminals-Annotated	1945
3/54	Publication- Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression	1947
3/55	Clippings	1935-1948
box-folder:oversize
5/2	Notes and Documents	1943-1946
5/3	Publication, The Argonaut Vol. 38. No. 3730
5/4	Publication, The United Nations Conference on International Organization (San Francisco/Seattle)	1945
5/5	Notes and Clippings	1946-1948
5/6	Clippings	1942-1951

"Woodrow Wilson"Return to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
3/56	Speech	undated
box-folder:oversize
5/7	Clippings	1902-1921
5/8	Poster	undated

Jeanie WalkinshawReturn to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
4/1	Clipping	1947
4/2	Documents and Correspondence	1914-1930
4/3	Publication- Space Journal Autographed	1957
4/4	Publication, A Century of Baltimore Collecting	1941
4/5	Pamphlet- National League of American Pen Women with illustrations of Jeanie Walkinshaw	undated

MiscellaneousReturn to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
4/6	Publication, Some Observations on the Recognition of Russia-Charles E. Martin, Institute of World Affairs	1933
4/7	Publications- Library Roster Seattle Public Library	1917
4/8	Publication- The Neglected Age - Olivia Howard Dunbar	undated
4/9	Clipping-Walter Walkinshaw	1950
4/10	Publication, A Radio Discussion of the Jews- University of Chicago Round Table	1940
4/11	Publication, The Mass on the Day of Marriage-St. Joseph's Seattle	1941
4/12	Publication- Examinations in Their Bearing on National Efficiency- P.J. Hartog	1911
4/13	Publication, The Drum Call Vol. XX, No. 1	1941
4/14	Program, InbalSeattle Symphony	undated
4/15	Program, The Sewickley United Presbyterian Church	1950
4/16	Documents-University of Washington	1935
4/17	Program-68th Commencement-University of Washington	1943
4/18	Publication-Emergency Conservation Committee, A Little Lesson on Vermin	1932
4/19	Pamphlet- XXVIII International Eucharistic Congress	1926
4/20	Pamphlet- The Kent-DeLord House	undated
4/21	Program-Derry Presbyterian Church	1928
4/22	Program- Magna Carta- A Pageant Drama Performed for the American Bar Association	1928
4/23	Notecards	undated
4/24	Pamphlet, A List of One Hundred of the Best Novels- Seattle Public Library	undated
4/25	Address- University of Dacca	1925
4/26	Correspondence	1908
4/27	Program-Memorial of Harvey W. Scott	1910
4/28	Program- Saint Mark's Cathedral	1960
4/29	Invitation-Exhibitionof Japanese Paintings-Seattle Fine Arts Club	1928
4/30	Pamphlets-Civilian Protection Divison-City of Seattle-Annotated	1942
4/31	Slides and Negatives	undated
4/32-35	Photographs and negatives	undated
4/36	Publication, The Old Settler	1902
4/37	Map-McKee's Road Map of Seattle	1894
4/38	Pamphlet, The Southern Slavs By: Nevill Forbes"	1914-1915
4/39	Publication, The Evolution of a Lament - C.T. Johnson in Washington Historical Quarterly	undated
box-folder:oversize
5/14	Map and Bulletin-University of Washington Arboretum	1950-1952

SpeechesReturn to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
box-folder:oversize
7/3	Sound Recording-Tape used for LPs-Poor Condition	1954
7/4	Sound Recording-Pioneer Association	1953

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