2 These manuscripts consist of the following chief items: Linebarger, Paul Myron Wentworth, _Conversations with Sun Yat-sen 1919-1922_ (written in 1933-1935); the same, _A Commentary on the San Min Chu I_ (four volumes, 1932-1933); and Sun Yat-sen, _How China Was Made a Republic_ (Shanghai, 1919). These are all typescripts, with autograph corrections by their respective authors. The manuscripts of Judge Linebarger represent his attempts to replace, from memory, books which were destroyed at the time of the bombardment of the Commercial Press in Shanghai by the Japanese. He had prepared a two-volume work on the life and principles of Sun Yat-sen and had left his manuscripts and other papers in the vaults of the Press. When the Press was bombed the manuscripts, documents, plates and Chinese translations were all destroyed; the only things remaining were a few pages of proof sheets for _The Life and Principles of Sun Chung-san_, which remain in the possession of the present author. Judge Linebarger attempted to replace these volumes. He had a few notebooks in which he had kept the outlines of his own speeches; he had not used these, because of the secondary value. When, however, the major volumes were lost, he returned to these notebooks and reconstructed his speeches. They were issued in Paris in 1932 under the title of _The Gospel of Sun Chung-shan_. He also prepared the _Commentary_ and the _Conversations_ from memory. These manuscripts possess a certain somewhat questionable value. Judge Linebarger himself suggested that they be allowed the same weight that testimony, based upon memory but delivered under oath, upon a subject ten years past would receive in a court of justice. The seven volumes described are in the possession of the present author. Other materials to which the author has had access are his father’s diaries and various other private papers; but since he has not cited them for references, he does not believe any description of them necessary. Finally, there are the manuscripts of _Sun Yat-sen and the Chinese Republic_, which contain a considerable amount of material deleted from the published version of that work, which appeared in New York in 1925. For comments on other source material for Sun Yat-sen which is not generally used, see Bibliography. 3 Lyon Sharman, _Sun Yat-sen, His Life and Its Meaning_, New York, 1934, p. 405. 4 He did this in his _Political Testament_, which is given in almost every work on Sun Yat-sen or on modern Chinese politics. It was written in February and signed in March 1925, shortly before his death.