Correspondence dated in connection with Arnold's commercial handbook for China:

• Letter dated December 21, 1926, from Arnold, Shanghai, to the Director of Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Washington, D.C., on the subject of "Shanghai, The World City" - requesting that an addition be made to his recent article entitled "Shanghai, The World City" dated December 20 (1923), and attacheing clippings descriptive of business and industrial conditions in Shanghai in connection with the article - 1p
• "China. A Commercial And Industrial Handbook. Trade Promotion Series No.38." U.S. Government Printing Office. 818 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Advertisement for Arnold's handbook - including the price, an abstract, and table of contents - 1p. 
• "The New Commercial Handbook of China is now available". Circular from the Department of Commerce. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Washington, D.C., Drawing  the attention of the various Bureau's offices in the United States to the publication of Arnold's Hanbook, and giving information regarding the ways of ordering copies - 1p
• Letter dated May 1938 from Editorial Division, to Publications Division, Department of Commerce, on the subject of "Letter from Superintendent of Documents, May 3, 1938, relative to Trade Promotion Series No.38, "China - Commercial and Industrial Handbook" - 1p
• Letter dated June 4, 1938, from Division of Regional Information, to Editorial Division, on the subject of "China Commercial and Industrial Handbook" - 1p