一九五四年 六十岁
六十岁
是年初
先生建议费正清从香港购入《文汇报》，因该报经济新闻较其他日报丰富。〔《裘开明年谱》，页562〕
按：1月11日，费正清致信裘开明，认为应当积极购入该报。
一月七日
噶邦福覆函先生，告北平旧友及平馆近况。〔University of Chicago Library, Yuan T'ung-li Papers, Box 2〕
一月十一日
先生致信Mary E. Ferguson，请告知方恩联系方式以便协助袁清申请普林斯顿大学奖学金。
January 11, 1954
Dear Miss Ferguson:
Although I have not written to you for some time, you are much in our thoughts. I trust that you and your sister are doing well. It is indeed a pleasure to learn from the Walters here that you have been helping the work at UBCC. We wish you every success and we look forward to seeing you in the not too distant future.
My youngest son is planning to go to Princeton next fall. He received the grade of A throughout the years in the high schools and he would like to apply for scholarly aid. The Director of Adm issions at Princeton suggested that we get in touch with the Princeton-Yenching Foundation of which Dr. William P. Fenn is the Secretary. I wonder whether you could send us the necessary information and if possible, send us the forms of application, the closing date, etc.
After having spent two years at Stanford, we have moved to Cambridge for a temporary stay. We have suffered great financial losses and we are not able to send the young boy to College without scholarship aid.
With greetings and warmest regards from Mrs. Yuan and myself,
Sincerely,
T. L. Yuan
〔Yale University Divinity School Library, United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia Records, RG 11 SeriesⅡ, Box 79, Folder 2146〕
按：Mary E. Ferguson（1897-1989），福开森女儿，中文名福梅龄，曾长期在北京协和医学院任职，时任亚洲基督教高等教育联合董事会助理秘书。此件为打字稿，落款处为先生签名。
一月十二日
程绥楚覆函先生，告知大陆新近出版的书籍颇为精美并寄《红楼梦新证》。
守和先生、夫人双前：
敬启者，手示并转汇稿费五十元，于上周收到不误，诸多费神，殊深铭谢，遥维贵体纳福定如所愿。此间今年圣诞大不如昔，购买力弱，尤以外省人更是一蹶不振。北平方面，近来大印其书，见其影印宋板《离骚》，精美异常，又作家出版社重印《程乙本红楼》，新式标点略加方言短释，精美异常，仅售十二元H. K.，致本地出之粗版翻书，大受打击。最难得者，校对无一错字错号，似此则较前进步多矣。台湾情形想已见到，贞一兄近仍在安排选举大做文章，此间即中立报纸亦视之一笑，方寸之地所务仍在虚名，全海外侨民不胜感慨。澄弟久无信，想多平安家报，甚以为念。崇基春初可迁一新租校舍，较今日者略广，普通图书亦够用，惟学生太不肯用功读书也。余容再上。专此，敬请双安，并叩年禧，阖府清吉平安。
晚绥楚敬上
一月十二夜
住址：香港九龙诺士佛台七号，程靖宇。（晚用此字及笔名写文，因绥楚二字内地银行已登记，月有侨汇进去，文凭系绥楚名，故教书不得不用此，住址则但知靖宇也。）闻出有新《红楼梦新证》一书，容觅得寄上，又启。
《红楼新证》已购到，另包平寄上，恐须一月半始到。因克利夫兰明早开行，已不及矣。一，十二夜。
〔袁同礼家人提供〕
按：《红楼新证》即《红楼梦新证》，周汝昌著，1953年9月棠棣出版社初版，印数5000册。“克利夫兰”应指在香港和美国间往来的邮轮。该函背面（即航信信封）上另有程绥楚的个人简历。
一月二十六日
梅贻琦致函先生，告知中基会资助研究侧重有所变化，并告胡适将赴台与会。
……尊嘱关于研究计划，如拟就时不妨先寄至中基会，待有适当时期，再为决定。不过近来台湾方面欲清华减少此间用费，尽量补助台湾大学及在台其他院校，故在美研究补助恐须有若干减缩，中基会情形亦大致相若，如何或须待春夏间再核之。
适之约于下月十日左右飞赴台湾开会，琦希望可不去，不知终能免却此行否？匆颂春安，不一。
贻琦
一月廿六
郁文嘱代候，祖彤请安。
〔袁同礼家人提供〕
按：该函仅存最后一页。“适之约于下月十日左右飞赴台湾开会”，似指本年2月胡适飞赴台湾与会。
一月二十七日
先生致信福梅龄，告知袁清因成绩优秀当可获得奖学金，无须打扰方恩，并告其王世襄、温德近况。
January 27, 1954
Dear Miss Ferguson:
Thank you very much indeed for your nice letter of January 18. When you come to Boston next time, I hope you will give us the pleasure of seeing you. Our last meeting was in Washington in 1950. Much has happened since that time.
I hear from Peking occasionally. Now Mrs. S. T. Wang is in Hong Kong and I am sure that we shall more news about our common friends.
My son has applied for adm ission at Harvard and Yale. Since he has had a good record, he will have no difficulty in obtaining admission and scholarly aid. So, we shall not bother Dr. Fenn about it.
I enclose a reprint of mine which you may find useful. Mr. Wang Shih-Hsiang has been made the Chief of Exhibitions and a special Hall of Chinese Paintings has been recently opened inside the Palace Museum. I should like to write up another report if I have the time.
I am still connected with the Library of Congress with a temporary assignment in Cambridge.
With warmest regards,
Sincerely,
T. L. Yuan
I also had the following information about Prof. Winter:
“Winter was sometime suspected as an American spy, but is now treated more friendly. At first, he was avoided by all people, professors and students alike, which was the worse to a talkative man like him. Once his house took fire by accident. The firemen were slow to come. When they came, they forgot instruments. Then they could not find the water, so that poor Winter would perish in flame, not to say his house and belongings. Now people visit him and listen to him; but he is very cautious and has not much to say.”
〔Yale University Divinity School Library, United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia Records, RG 11 SeriesⅡ, Box 79, Folder 2146〕
按：Mrs. S. T. Wang即王锡炽夫人Lillian Bartow Towner。此件为打字稿，落款处为先生签名。
二月一日
福梅龄覆函先生，感谢寄赠期刊文章，并希望先生能够撰写一篇有关中国博物馆、图书馆的报告。
February 1, 1954
Dear Dr. Yuan:
Very much thanks for your letter of January 27th and for the extremely interesting and informative reprint which you sent me about academic activities in China, 1949-52. I was also interested to hear that Wang Shih-Hsiang has been made Chief Exhibitions in the Palace Museum and that a special Hall of Chinese Paintings has been recently opened.
I hope you do find the time to write another report but when I am in Boston in the spring, I look forward to hearing from you first-hand your latest news about the Museum and the Library.
What you wrote about Bob Winter is easily believed; certainly nothing would be harder on him than not have people talk with him!
With kindest regards,
Sincerely yours,
Mary E. Ferguson
Associate Secretary
〔Yale University Divinity School Library, United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia Records, RG 11 SeriesⅡ, Box 79, Folder 2146〕
按：此件为打字稿，落款处为其签名。
二月三日
先生致信胡适，请其去台后问候王世杰，并告齐如山藏书入藏哈佛大学事。
适之先生：
近见报载，大驾于一周后将返台北，敬祝“一路福星”。不识此次可留若干日？至盼早日返美。雪艇先生之事至为不幸，想大驾抵台后必能乘机进言，雪艇先生精神上亦可稍得安慰。同礼等深为关怀，晤面时并祈代达拳拳之意。齐如山先生所藏之戏剧小说颇多罕见之本，前由同礼介绍于哈佛，得价二千三百元，已于上月由台北寄到。内中虫蛀之处甚多，可见台北保存古籍之不易，尤盼缩小影照计划可以早日实现。不识近日Ford基金会方面有消息否？本星期日先生在哥大讲演能在广播中恭听，甚为兴奋。并盼台北方面能译成中文在各报上发表也。春节以来天气较暖，长途旅行，诸乞珍重。
同礼拜上
内人附笔问安
二月三日
尊夫人同此拜年。
〔台北胡适纪念馆，档案编号HS-US01-066-028〕
按：2月18日，胡适抵达台北松山机场，3月10日上午看望王世杰。
二月五日
吴光清覆函先生，告王重民辗转联系国会图书馆欲寄出北京大学印行的《美国国会图书馆藏中国善本书录》，并谈恒慕义退休等事。
守和吾兄：
手示奉悉。嘱查各书已查明注原单上，兹附还参考。上星期香港美领事馆有电致国务院转L. C.，谓王重民曾托人通知该馆，云其L. C.善本书提要已出版，现正设法托人带港寄出（我意大约要相当代价），是以此间当局决定刘君缮写工作暂缓开始，想已经General Reference & Bibliography Division（其副主任Dubester为出版委员会主任）或Adkinson另函通知。现在此间之重要事，大家均要染指作主，各人有各人之意见，决定一事手续繁多，颇费时日，最后决定又不知如何也。恒君月底退休，东方部同人决定欢宴并送礼物，馆方亦有Luncheon欢送。至继任何人现尚不知，新馆长亦未发表，想Clapp之政治方面支持仍不够。齐如山书已收到，转Exchange & Gift Division登记并致谢函。金大无在美同学录，James Kung Ching Lee中文姓名为李公进，现在费城一油厂工作。余不一一。匆匆，顺颂撰安。
弟光清
二月五日
恒君之东方部历史已出版，载Quarterly Bulletin内，兹检出另封寄上。
〔University of Chicago Library, Yuan T'ung-li Papers, Box 2〕
Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1955, Washington, 1956, p. v.
按：“刘君”应指刘楷贤，受先生之托缮写《美国国会图书馆藏中国善本书录》书稿。Dubester即Henry J. Dubester（1917-2017），1954年9月14日起任普通参考及书目部（General Reference and Bibliography Division）主任。
Adkinson即Burton W. Adkinson（1909-2004），自1949年11月至1957年12月担任国会图书馆参考部主任。“齐如山书”应指《国剧概论》。
二月八日
噶邦福覆函先生，告苏联援华专家等事。〔University of Chicago Library, Yuan T'ung-li Papers, Box 2〕
二月十一日
先生赠《国剧概论》一册与杨联陞，并请其为袁清向达特茅斯学院（Dartmouth College）作推荐信。〔《杨联陞日记》（稿本）〕
按：袁清的中学成绩甚好，让杨联陞印象深刻。
二月中旬
先生收到杨联陞回赠的文章和书评单行本。〔《杨联陞日记》（稿本）〕
按：此册由袁清带来。
二月十五日
Constance M. Winchell覆函先生，告知无法列出其馆藏有关马可波罗的书目清单。
February 15, 1954
My dear Mr. Yuan:
I am sorry that we cannot undertake to send you a list of the holdings of this library on Marco Polo. As you can imagine there are many entries under this name in our catalog and while it is true that many of them are represented by Library of Congress printed cards there are some twenty-five or more which are not. If you have definite titles which you would like to have us check we should be glad to do that, or we could check your bibliography against our catalog. We have found that so much duplication results when lists are made up from card catalogs that we cannot undertake to do this for students in other institutions. We are sorry not to be of help.
Sincerely yours,
Constance M. Winchell
Reference Librarian
The cards could probably be photographed or microfilmed for $1.00-$1.50, if you wished to have that done.
〔University of Chicago Library, Yuan T'ung-li Papers, Box 2〕
按：此件为打字稿，落款签名和补语为其亲笔。
二月十九日
先生致信Constance M. Winchell女士，再次申请哥伦比亚大学图书馆提供馆藏马可波罗书目清单，并提供题名和分类信息以便查询。
February 19, 1954
Miss Constance M. Winchell
Reference Librarian
Columbia University
New York, N. Y.
Dear Miss Constance:
I am much obliged to you for your letter of February 15 and for your assistance in checking your holdings on Marco Polo.
I am enclosing herewith a list of titles which I have gathered with which it would be easier for you to check your holdings. In the case of L. C. cards, I put down only the serial number of each card, instead of the complete bibliographical information. For the rest, I only put down the year of publication, the edition and the translator, etc.
When I was in New York, I was a constant reader at your Library. I had bibliographical training under Miss Mudge when I was a student at Columbia College during 1920-22. It is inspiring to me to see the wonderful reference collection which you have built since that time.
Thanking you once more for your courtesy,
Yours sincerely,
T. L. Yuan
P. S. I enclose check for $1.50 for possible use.
〔University of Chicago Library, Yuan T'ung-li Papers, Box 2〕
按：此件为打字稿，落款处为先生签名。
三月三日
方豪致函先生，详述中文书籍、期刊中有关马可波罗游记的文字。
守和先生撰席：
适之先生归国，知大驾已回Cambridge，但未详居处；去年十一月间，奉上拙作《中西交通史》三册（明末以前），系寄730 College Ave. Palo Alto, Calif.，今奉大札，知尚未收到。请去函一查。第四、五册系明末清初部分，久已交稿，迄未出版。
尊编简目，不日或可再补若干，兹先奉告二事：
一、张星烺尚有《马哥孛罗游记导言》，中国地学会发行，自称“译注”，列有“《受书堂丛书》第一种”，无出版年月日，但自序作于民国十一年双十节，柳诒（先生误作贻）徵有序，尊编简目已著录，则发表于南高史地学报，时民国十三年；又书首Dedication，亦题民国十三年八月三十日，则断为十三年出版，当不误。
二、尊编简目已著录冯承钧之《马可波罗行纪沙海昂译注正误》，沙海昂Charignon之《马可波罗行纪》，亦冯氏所译，商务出版，三册，现为人借去，出版年代查出后，当再奉告。
适之先生谓已受邀赴意，参加马可孛罗诞生七百年纪念会，但恐不能成行，以马可与中国之关系而言，中国不可无人出席。若先生能
致函Tucci教授，来函邀请，则豪可向“教部”申请补助费，向“外部”申请护照，向台湾银行申请官价外汇。今年为圣母年，赴罗马坐飞机有折扣，故自己所费不多。豪当备一篇论文去宣读，为我国学术界争光，此事当请先生
成之。
赴美时在希望中。旅费无问题，可自筹，豪现有二书稿，能售数百美金。哈佛燕京大约因豪系神父，故有不便，实则豪纯为研究学术而往，与教无关，观豪始终不向教会索钱，不求教会资助，自食其力，即可知也。专复，敬请旅安。
晚豪顿首
〔University of Chicago Library, Yuan T'ung-li Papers, Box 2〕
三月四日
方豪致函先生，就前信内容略作补充。
守和先生道席：
昨日奉上一函，已略作补充，兹再就所知，陈述一二。
1.中国书中最早提到《马可波罗游记》，当为同治年间刊行之《中西闻见录》。并有人访求马可波罗事迹与遗物。
2.洪钧《元史译文证补》中已引用马可游记。
3.张星烺译《马可孛罗游记》有两种：
a据玉尔氏英文本译，民初燕京大学刊行，导言一册，本文卷一卷二共一册；
b据拜内戴拖发现新本，二十五年（非二十三年）商务出版。
4.冯承钧译《马可波罗行纪》三册，A. J. H. Charignon注，余手头所有者无版权页，不知何年出版，序作于民国廿四年二月，商务发行。
5.关于论文抗战期中，杨志玖撰《关于马可波罗离华的一段汉文记载》，曾获学术奖金，为一重大发现，载《文史杂志》一卷12期（三十年十二月）。
6.二十九年六月十六日，重庆《益世报·宗教与文化》第十三期有阎宗临著《马可波罗与和德理》。
7.方豪著《中西交通史》第三册第七章《元代记述中国之欧洲人阿拉伯人及非洲人》，第三节《尼古拉波罗父子之东游》，第四节《马可波罗游记及其流传》。
如先生致函意国学界，约弟前往，当可办到。适之先生恐不能成行。谨再奉陈，敬请旅安。
晚方豪叩
三，四
〔University of Chicago Library, Yuan T'ung-li Papers, Box 2〕
按：杨志玖（1915-2002），字佩之，山东长山人，回族，历史学家，1934年入北京大学史学系，后在西南联合大学、南开大学任教。1941年他在《文史杂志》第1卷第12期发表《关于马可波罗离华的一段汉文记载》，获得中央研究院名誉学术奖，后被译成英文转载于欧美学术刊物上。此时，方豪的住所为台北市龙泉街84巷22号。
三月五日
克莱普致函先生，邀请参加恒慕义的荣休聚会。
March 5, 1954
Dear Dr. Yuan:
Dr. Arthur Hummel will retire as Chief of our Orientalia Division on March 31, 1954. We shall take note of his retirement at a luncheon of Division Chiefs of the Library of Congress in the Whittall Pavilion at 12:30 p. m. on March 31.
Because you are not only a professional colleague of Dr. Hummel's, but also a member of the Library of Congress staff, I should like to extend an invitation to you to join us on that occasion. I would be very happy if you could be with us.
Sincerely yours,
Verner W. Clapp
Acting Librarian of Congress
〔袁同礼家人提供〕
按：该函寄送马萨诸塞州剑桥，此件为录副。
三月十日
先生致信董作宾，告哈佛燕京学社拟邀请中方学者赴美研究计划的细节，希望其尝试申请。
彦堂吾兄：
弟于去秋来康桥，本拟乘此机会为贵所在哈佛燕京社谋一笔印刷费，以便兄等著作可以继续出版。奈我国国际地位如此，而弟又人微言轻，迄今未能实现，加以主持所务之Elisséeff教授对于台湾颇有成见。去年赴东京、香港，经过台北而不入其门，当有深意存焉。大驾拟来美研究一节，时时关怀，惟携眷来美费用太多美国对于移民近更严苛矣，迟迟未能报命。近哈佛燕京社略有余款，拟约我国学者三人来此研究名义大约为“Exchange Research Fellow”，亦尚未定，其待遇每月二百余元。虽为数无多，但供给来往旅费，并限期一年。如吾兄能在台大或贵所休假一年，仍支国内原薪，则一人来此每月尚可略有存储，于经济上亦不无小补，不识尊意以为如何？如愿一试，可就近请适之先生写一推荐书，径寄下列地址（Serge Elisséeff, Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Cambridge, Mass.）。大约旅费可汇至香港，兄到港后凭护照领取。此事尚未正式发表，对于人选侧重三、四十岁之人，惟弟对于吾兄经济状况颇为关怀，故愿从旁力促其成。此外，因去年方杰人兄曾来申请，今年渠亦有希望也弟亦推荐矣。顷闻适之先生有被软禁消息，至为关怀，希望不确也。弟因搜集资料关系，定于月杪赴欧，秋间方能返美。如大驾能来美，未能在此恭候，至以为怅。在欧住址未定，如来信寄此间地址，舍下可以转寄。匆匆，不尽欲言。顺颂著祺。
弟袁同礼顿首
三月十日
便中可询济之兄愿来此否？弟即不另作函矣。
〔西泠印社2023年春季拍卖中外名人手迹与影像艺术专场〕
按：后，董作宾、方豪均未能赴美哈佛燕京学社访学。该信于3月15日送达台北。
先生覆信张君劢，告知去欧洲考察计划，并谈台湾及欧洲局势。
君劢先生著席：
手示拜悉。承关怀，至感。赴欧签证之Re-entry，业经国务院核准，此事“教部”方面早已通知“外交部”，该部迟迟未办，“大使馆”又延误半月，至上月廿五日始行办妥。闻公权先生业已来美，请代问安。去年三月曾用李君名义写《大陆铁路概况》一文，兹特奉上，盼代转呈。近一年之概况，得暇亦拟草一文，所得资料已甚多，惜无时间耳。报载适之被软禁，想系实情，台湾前途如此，真可悲也！现定月杪乘法轮赴欧。时局动荡，恐日内瓦会议以后，法、比或将承认中共也。冬间返美，再行请教。匆匆，顺颂道祺。
同礼顿首
三月十日
〔国家图书馆善本组手稿特藏〕
按：《大陆铁路概况》即Railway Construction in China，“李君名义”即Li Chang。是年2月18日，胡适抵达台北，因《自由中国》杂志从批判共产主义转向检讨台湾内部问题、批评国民党弊病，与蒋介石关系逐渐恶化，胡适虽被猜忌，但并未被软禁。1954年4月至7月，瑞士日内瓦万国宫召开了一次国际性多边会议。其议程是关于重建印度支那和朝鲜的和平的问题，史称“日内瓦会议”（La Conférence de Genève）。
三月十三日
先生致信钱存训，告知柯强所藏长沙出土文物的大致情形及协助董作宾访美等事。
公垂吾兄著席：
手教拜悉。大著即将发表，亟盼早日拜读。关于美人Cox所藏长沙出土帛书，此君秘不示人。杨联陞君曾见过，尊处似可致函向其索一照相影本，取到后可约劳榦字贞一共同研究。但恐此君不肯示人，或请Creel先生致函亦可。其通讯处列下：
Mr. John Hadley Cox, c/o Gallery of Fine Arts, Yale University, New Haven, Coun.
此人所得长沙出土之铜器及木器等，均寄存于此博物院也。关于董彦堂先生来美一节，加大及芝大均以经费关系未能进行。近哈佛燕京社略有余款，拟请学者三人来此研究，限期一年，待遇不高，但供给来往旅费。弟已推荐董彦堂并询其能否于此时来美，俟得复函再为积极进行。此事该社尚未发表，须候董事会开会后方能正式决定，故可不必先告他人也。弟定月杪离此赴欧，约冬间返美，在欧住址列后以便通讯。时念尊处工作紧张，经手之事又多，尚希随时休息，勿过劳碌为荷。匆复，顺颂俪安。
弟同礼顿首
三，十三，康桥
北平报载令亲邢老先生与他人合组经史学会，熟人中有夏仁虎等，均在七十以上之老辈也。
北平馆馆长为冯仲云，故宫博物院副院长为陈乔，科学院副院长为张稼夫，均党中人员。
在欧通讯处c/o Mr. S. I. Hsiung, Staverton House, Oxford, England
〔钱孝文藏札〕
按：John Hadley Cox（1913-2005），美国收藏家，尤其热衷购藏中国先秦时期的陶器、青铜器，20世纪40年代蔡季襄将长沙子弹库楚帛书“转让”与其。“邢老先生”应指邢端（1883-1959），1951年7月被聘为中央文史馆馆员。1953年4月23日，文化部任命冯仲云为北京图书馆馆长；同年1月20日，社会文化事业管理局转文化部通知，任命陈乔为故宫博物院副院长；同年1月14日，中央人民政府委员会第21次会议任命张稼夫为中国科学院副院长。
先生致信图齐（罗马），告知胡适因故无法前往参加马可波罗诞辰七百年庆典，推荐方豪前往与会。
March 13, 1954
Dear Professor Tucci:
I trust that your preparation for the celebration of the VIIth centenary of the Birth of Marco Polo is well under way. Before leaving for Formosa for a temporary visit, Dr. Hu Shih told me that he will not be able to come to Rome much to his regret.
It has occurred to me that if you wish China represented at the Celebrations, you might like to extend an invitation to Professor Fang Hao, Department of History, Taiwan University, Taipeh, Taiwan（Formosa）. Professor Fang, as you may have met his acquaintance already, is a specialist on Sino-foreign relations and has written considerably on this subject. Moreover, he speaks Italian and has lived in Rome several years ago.
Professor Fang will pay his own travel expenses, so it will not be a burden on your budget. He is preparing for a paper to be read in Rome if he is invited.
I expect to sail for the United Kingdom at the end of this month. My address after April 1 will be as follows: c/o Mr. S. I. Hsiung, Staverton House, Oxford, England.
With kindest regards,
Yours sincerely,
〔University of Chicago Library, Yuan T'ung-li Papers, Box 3〕
按：此为底稿。
三月十六日
吴光清覆函先生，告恒慕义对先生申请续增《国会图书馆藏中国善本书录》编纂报酬之意见，并谈恒氏荣休之庆祝计划。
守和吾兄大鉴：
上周患重伤风，在家卧床一星期，今日返馆始读十日手示，藉悉一切。恒君谓尊函亦已收到。关于校改工作，续增酬报750元，彼意原无大问题。现王称书已印出，致又生枝节，请求手续又当麻烦。彼意原定之500元如未寄达，望迅速来函致彼转催出版部批准交会计处已行寄发。至续加之750元最好候王书寄到后（截至今日毫无消息），必定计划将其影印并增加尊撰之续编及编索引等项工作，届时将此750元列入预算当较易办，彼并谓该时虽已退休，但可建议，谅无问题云云。嘱我将上述情形先为函达，彼随后再奉复也。东方部仝人公宴于廿六晚在China Doll举行，拟赠恒君本人皮制手提箱、其夫人鲜花（礼物），尊份已代缴并拟在贺片上代签名，所垫为数甚微，可勿介意。昨日又奉到十三日手示，内附致恒君一信，极为得体，兹略易数字附还。馆方欢送Luncheon系卅一日中午举行。所需之Bibliographical services已托Claytor觅到一份，昨日寄上。吾兄赴欧计划如何、何日首途，均在念念。匆匆，顺祝撰安。
弟光清上
三，一六
弟等之医药保险系group health assin，为美京之机关，非全国性，每人每月四元，除生产非一年以后有效外，其他似无问题。
〔袁同礼家人提供〕
三月十八日
先生致信恒慕义，对其退休表示敬意并高度评价其对国会图书馆东亚馆藏所作出的不朽贡献，尤其称赞《清代名人传略》出版和协助平馆善本书运美两个重要功绩。
March 18, 1954
Dear Dr. Hummel:
On the eve of your retirement from active service, may I offer you my hearty congratulations on the successful conclusion of a devoted and distinguished career. Under your able direction, a great collection of Oriental literature has been built up; it constitutes an invaluable repository for the growing number of scholars who come to Washington for study and research.
In developing these resources, you have foreseen the needs of future generations of scholars. In the field of Chinese literature alone, evidence of such foresight has been the systematic acquisition of source materials, the availability of which has made Washington the principal center of research in Chinese history and civilization.
One of your notable by-products and an indispensable work of reference, THE EMINENT CHINESE OF THE CH'ING PERIOD, is an excellent example of cooperative research. In this undertaking, you have made full use of not only the available source materials, but also the results of modern historical research in China. This splendid work would hardly have been possible had you not systematically built up a comprehensive collection of Chinese literature.
I am particularly indebted to you for the safekeeping of the rare Chinese Books from the National Library of Peiping and for your effort in microfilming these materials, thus making them available to a wide circle of scholars. All these measures bear witness to the valuable help you have given in the promotion of learning and advancement of knowledge.
Since coming to the United States, I have often turned to you for counsel in connection with my own research. Your sympathetic understanding has inspired me to greater effort. It is therefore my earnest hope that another term of your valuable service may be extended far into the future as Chief Emeritus of Orientalia, so that students of sinology may continue to come to you for advice and guidance.
With best wishes, I remain
Yours sincerely,
T. L. Yuan
〔袁同礼家人提供〕
按：此件为录副。
三月二十四日
吴光清致函先生，告知国会图书馆出版委员会仍拟按照原定计划，由刘楷贤誊抄先生校订后的“国会图书馆藏中文善本书录”书稿，并谈恒慕义退休后东方部可能之变化。
守和吾兄大鉴：
昨奉廿一日手示，敬悉一切。欧行既定，自宜早去早归。关于编辑提要之500元，即拟请恒君致Memo与Dubester，请其通知会计处寄发，希望能于月底其退休及吾兄启程前办好。惟馆中手续繁多，不知来得及否？至印好提要，馆方现托英国书商设法购置，尚无消息。正写至此处时（礼拜三九点半），又得Publications Committee处消息，谓现又决定不管印好提要案来否，前定手写提要计划拟依旧进行，并悉Dubrster今早拟打长途电话或电报至尊处通知，按照原来计划请刘君开始缮写，不知所谈结果如何？如定好，当将蓝格子纸寄上（已印好，计6,000张，在中文部）。馆事愈趋复杂，大家都要作主，而且彼此又不接头，所以作事困难。恒君去后，不知何人继任，传闻有改组可能，将参考与编目分开，一切只好听其自然演变。恒君礼物，公份代垫仅二元，寄来五元太多，兹退还三元，祈查收。Army Map中文部份主任Dr. Suter对政府工作厌倦，业已辞职，拟自己研究著述，遗缺由傅安接任。惟人事复杂，亦不易应付也。匆匆，顺祝双安。
弟光清上
三，二四，十时
〔袁同礼家人提供〕
按：“印好提要，馆方现托英国书商设法购置”，应指王重民委托北京大学出版组所印《国会图书馆善本书提要》，因中国与英国建交，似可托英方书商（或由香港）购到。Dr. Suter似指Rufus O. Suter Jr.，待考。
三月二十六日
晚，杨联陞设宴为先生及夫人赴欧饯行。〔《杨联陞日记》（稿本）〕
按：《杨联陞日记》中有“并请于公夫妇”之语，“于公”似指于震寰。
三月二十七日
先生致信中基会，申请恢复资助《西文汉学书目》（考狄书目续编）的编写工作。
March 27, 1954
Dear Sirs:
In order to bring to early completion my editorial work on the Supplement to Cordier's Bibliotheca Sinica, I am submitting a memorandum with a request for financial assistance covering a period from January 1955 to December 1956. I would greatly appreciate your assistance if this request could be put on your agenda of your annual meeting.
This project has your support from April 1950 to September 1951. The editorial work was more or less interrupted from October 1951 to June 1953 when I worked for the Stanford Research Institute.
Thanking you for your interest and support,
Yours sincerely,
T. L. Yuan
〔University of Chicago Library, Yuan T'ung-li Papers, Box 1〕
三月三十一日
先生与夫人自纽约出发前往欧洲，收集英、法、德、意等国文献资料，增补《西文汉学书目》（考狄书目续编）。〔袁同礼家人提供〕
The Rockefeller Foundation Annual Report, 1953, p. 293.
按：此前，洛克菲勒基金会人文部资助先生9000美金用以完成此项研究，该项资助款经国会图书馆逐月发放。
四月六日
噶邦福致函先生，感谢寄赠期刊论文，并谈澳大利亚大学、图书馆对俄国研究近况及文献积累情况，另略述外国旧友在北京现状。
Canberra, Apr. 6, 1954
Dear Mr. Yuan.
I have just received a Report of Russian Research Centre and Some Academic Activities in China both sent by you and must thank you for the same. Russian Research has made much progress in America, unlike the situation in Australia. Here, for instance, at Canberra, there is a university college, where elementary Russian is taught, with a minimum of students. In the Australian National University there is no room for Russian studies even in the Far Eastern Dept. We are much behind America.
Your article is interesting not only for me, but Fitzgerald, too. I shall give over to him after reading. I think you have received a letter which I sent you in February, not very long, and another much longer, sent through President Mei in March, about Soviet advisers as you desired. I still think that their number is not so big as you say, but about 40,000. And this is enough, considering their high salaries and treatment（cars, houses）. I do not say of adulation with which they are surrounded.
National Library is well supplied with Russian books, particularly scientific, presented by the Academy of Science, only readers are not so many. As a counter-part the supply of European, and especially American, books is stopped, and those available are not easily accessible. And there was a purge, of course. Even Soviet books may be dangerous, Soviet Encyclopedia, for instance becomes out of date already now.
Your place was taken by your assistant, Mr. Wang. Mr. Chang was made Secretary, not as a Communist, who he is not, but because of his knowledge of languages. He accompanied the Exhibition of Chinese Art in Europe and was absent for two years.
Of our Peking acquaintances, Bielenstein and Mulder（do you know them?）are here in A. N. U. Reclus with wife is somewhere in France and still cannot release his daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Karpinsky cannot obtain an exit permit, without any accusation produced. Mrs. Marshall was paid much money for her hotel and is still in Peking, unwillingly, I think.
Now, with regards to your family.
Sincerely yours,
J. J. Gapanovich
〔袁同礼家人提供〕
The North-China Desk Hong List, 1934, p. 707; The North-China Desk Hong List, 1941, p. 772.
按：Mr. Chang应指张全新。Bielenstein应指Hans Bielenstein（1920-2015），瑞典汉学家，专攻汉代历史，中文名毕汉思，离开北京后，1952年担任堪培拉大学东方语言学院院长，1961年赴美执教于哥伦比亚大学。Karpinsky应指S. L. Karpinsky，商人，曾在天津Rovensk & Co., L. P.（隆业）服务，后在北平开办Mouland Co., J. A.（毛兰），从事进出口贸易
，1954年6月被捕。Mulder，待考。此函为其亲笔。
四月七日
先生和夫人抵达伦敦。〔Columbia University Libraries Archival Collections, Shuhua Li Papers, 1926-1972, Volume II: Modern Eminent Chinese Leaders〕
四月十三日
图齐覆函先生，对胡适不能前来与会表示遗憾，并表示意大利方面不便邀请方豪作为备选人前来，但可以向其邀稿并列入会议结束后的论文集中。
13 Apr. 1954
Rome
Dear Dr. Yuan:
Many thanks for your very kind letter of March 13, and for the interest you are taking in our Marco Polo celebrations. I am sorry that Dr. Hu Shih is prevented from coming to Rome, as his visit would have been most welcome indeed.
With regard to your suggestion concerning an invitation to be extended to Prof. Fang Hao, I regret to say it would not be within our possibilities, much as we should be honored by the visit of such an outstanding personality. Our programs are unfortunately so overcrowded that we find it very difficult to cope with all our engagements; we could, however, write to him, requesting the favor of an article of his for our forthcoming publication at the close of the celebrations. We are planning to include all lectures and writings in a special volume, wholly dedicated to Marco Polo, which in a way would be a summary of our cultural manifestations.
As to the bibliography on Marco Polo, I think it should be an exhaustive one, as you say, up to 1953, and not a supplement to Yule or others.
I shall be very glad to hear from you and meanwhile I beg to remain, with kindest regards,
Yours sincerely,
Giuseppe Tucci
〔University of Chicago Library, Yuan T'ung-li Papers, Box 3〕
按：此件为打字稿，落款处为其签名，该函寄送熊式一处收转。
四月二十日
先生致信李书华，告知英伦生活情况并建议其服用Dolcin。
润章先生著席：
上月途经纽约，得聆教言并荷款待，至感至谢。别后于七日安抵伦敦，天气甚冷，携来衣服全部穿上仍感不敷，各屋均无暖气，尤感不便。美人浪费太多，英人则又过于省俭矣。此间食物自取销管制后应有尽有，而尤以猪肉为多，大约来自阿根廷。Cheese及鸡蛋则来自丹麦，故对外贸易为英主要政策也。弟等在此工作如恒，惟对于此间天气颇不喜欢，幸尚未遇到雨季也。贤伉俪工作繁忙，尚希时加诊摄、多多休息，不胜企盼。弟到此后，以天气阴阴，又患Rheumatism，继续服用Dolcin极有效力，尊处似可照服也。匆匆，顺颂著祺，并询起居。
尊夫人同此问安。
弟同礼顿首
内人附笔致谢
四月廿日伦敦
〔Columbia University Libraries Archival Collections, Shuhua Li Papers, 1926-1972, Volume II: Modern Eminent Chinese Leaders〕
按：“诊摄”当作“珍摄”。Rheumatism即风湿病，Dolcin则为阿司匹林和丁二酸钙片剂。
四月二十二日
刘国蓁致函先生，告其已在《华侨日报》工作，但生活艰辛，并转发袁道冲致袁慧熙信。
守和先生尊鉴：
许久未修函敬候，抱歉殊深。敬维著述丰宏，履躬清胜为颂。昨年圣诞节时，叨蒙赐赠胶质花松布一大幅，贺简一函，乃承雅意，宠锡隆情，拜领之余，曷任心镂。惟迟迟未报，得毋深滋颜汗！知晚如先生，定当原宥，幸甚幸甚。晚自去年十月时，蒙先生不遗在远，屡函介绍谒见恒安石Hummel、黄星辉、何义均诸先生，可惜机会难逢，事未成就而感铭盛情，殊不浅鲜耳。十一月脱离港大职务后，由敝戚荐于《华侨日报》，在资料室任事。工作颇为适合，但时间极成问题，因晚上七时至二时工作，夜夜如是，并无放假，极为辛苦，而且薪金微薄，只得港大一半而已。维持甚感困难，守株待兔仍待鼎力赞勷为幸。上月得幸秉华东翁手示，藉悉先生关怀备致，去函问及贱况，感何可言。诚然，秉华东翁自一九五二年六月时委托代抄录在港数目，每月赐给津贴费港银三百元，以资弥补家用。当时港大月薪已不足维持，因晚有子女五人，先兄嫂遗孤三人，皆在求学之年，家用浩繁故也。晚屡受秉华东翁之深恩厚德，寔无既极，惟未知何日方能图报于万一，言之寔深惭愧耳。晚除夜间工作外，日间则经营一小商店于九龙，为售面包、饼干、糖果、香烟等，藉博蝇头小利，但现仍未有进展。谋事在人，成事在天，诚哉是言也。昨日奉到令岳丈大人嘱转尊夫人信一函，晚乘便偷闲敬覆，冒渎陈词，寔有辱尊听，伏祈恕宥为幸。专此，敬请崇安。
愚晚国蓁顿首
一九五四年四月廿二日
K. C, Lau, 36 Lockhart Road, 3rd fl. Hongkong.
〔University of Chicago Library, Yuan T'ung-li Papers, Box 7〕
按：何义均，时应在美国驻香港领事馆任顾问。
四月
Foreign Affairs刊登先生和袁澄共同撰写之文章，题为The Soviet Grip on Sinkiang。〔Foreign Affairs, vol. 32, no. 3, 1954, pp. 491-503〕
《传记文学》第8卷第2期，页36。
按：袁澄负责撰写初稿，先生则负责修改定稿
，仍以Li Chang为笔名。
是年夏
先生和夫人赴德国马尔堡（Marburg）游览，西德图书馆（Westdeutsche Bibliothek）馆长Martin Cremer及其夫人在Stadtsäle招宴，Wolf Haenisch、Wolfgang Seuberlich受邀作陪。〔《思忆录》，英文部分p. 39〕
按：Martin Cremer（1913-1988），1948年至1961年担任西德图书馆馆长。
先生由欧洲大陆回抵英国，因病在医院接受手术治疗。〔《杨联陞日记》（稿本）〕
按：先生所患之疾病及诊治过程，可参见本谱是年7月16日致赵元任信。此事，后由蒋彝写信告知杨联陞（记在7月6日）。
五月二十四日
国会图书馆参考部主任Burton W. Adkinson致函先生，询问先生校订王重民编《国会图书馆善本书录》是否已经完成，以便其考虑按此前协议支付另外500美金的报酬。
May 24, 1954
Dear Dr. Yuan:
I have just heard from Mr. Wu of the Library's Orientalia Division of your letter in which you inquired about payment for your work in editing the Catalog of Rare Chinese Books in the Library of Congress.
Before initiating the necessary procedures designed to provide payment of $500.00 for your services as per agreement it would be well if we could have confirmation that your work has been completed. In your letter of March 28, 1954, you wrote that you were taking 100 photostats with you to England to complete and then forward to Mr. Liu. May I ask if the editing of these pages has been completed and if you have now made the total manuscript available to Mr. Liu.
Just as soon as we hear affirmatively from you, we will take the necessary steps to secure payment to you for the very worthwhile contribution you have made to this work which we all want to see published just as soon as possible.
Sincerely,
Burton W. Adkinson
Director
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五月三十一日
刘楷贤致函先生，告知抄录《国会图书馆藏中国善本书录》书稿进展及问题。
守和先生赐鉴：
不聆教益，转瞬两阅月，想先生旅居多福为颂。在英伦参阅，收获当亦甚多；何时转赴巴黎，时在念中。嘱还之书已还，祈勿念。奉先生自纽约来示，附写样一纸。贤依照此样张及先生前所指示多点，业于四月一日开始缮写，迄今两月，已钞过“经部”，“史部（1）”一半，计原稿二百六十页，抄成一百四十九页。每晚缮写二至三小时，周末约八至十小时，费时虽多，成就有限，其原因：①原稿字小而笔画潦草，有很多名词，虽用放大镜，仍须猜想或参考证实。②原稿纸地光滑，在灯光下凝视既久，时感模糊不清。③每写毕一篇，仍须标点、校对，亦颇费时间。以事倍而进行迟缓，殊为惭愧。
上月末吴光清先生代表Mr. Henry Dubester, Secretary of the Bibliography of Publication Committee来函询问关于书目事已否进行？已函复吴先生，业已开始抄写。上周Mr. Barton Adkinson又来信，询问原稿最后部分，经先生携欧者，已否寄来？此信贤尚未作覆。
已钞就之书目，“页数”现仍暂用铅笔标注，尚未用墨笔填写，拟在书口“中国善本书录”下，“国会图书馆藏”上，从“国”字起空二格向上写，例如：
是否可以？祈先生便中示知，为祷。耑此，恭请旅安！并候袁太太安！
刘楷贤顿首
五月卅一日
贡颖附笔问安
附稿纸一页。
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六月十三日 牛津
先生致信Burton W. Adkinson，告知善本书录稿仍未最终完成并谈工作量，希望其考虑再给予750美金的报酬。
8 St. Margaret's Road
Oxford, England
June 13, 1954
Dear Dr. Adkinson:
On my return to Oxford this morning, I was glad to have your letter of May 24.
I wish to report that I am still at work on the last part of the catalogue, and I am taking very good care of the photostats. As there are many bibliographical problems, I have to solve them one by one. For a work of this kind, there is no short-cut. I trust you would agree with me that in order to do a good job, it is necessary not to overlook the details which, of course, take considerably one's time and effort.
Mr. Liu has done a very good job in transcribing the descriptive notes written by Mr. Wang. So far, the section on Classics has already been completed. He is now working on the first part of the section on History which will take him several months to complete, although he can work a great deal during the summer. The section on Philosophy is also a large one, so is the section on Belles-Lettres.
When the photostats were received at Cambridge last September, they were in a state of utmost confusion, there being no logical order in any of the groups. Moreover, a considerable number of duplicates were found among them. Evidently the prints were made twice which showed clearly the carelessness of the men handling these photostats. Under these circumstances, I found it necessary to take a special trip to Washington in order to examine the books on the spot and check up all the details. At the Division of Orientalia I worked full time from October 12 up to December 11. My expenses there amounted to more than $500.
By this time the work was far from complete. It could easily take another two months if I had chosen to remain in Washington. But as my home was then in Cambridge and as living alone in Washington proved expensive, I had to continue the work（December 13-March 28）outside of the Library, disadvantageous as it had been.
More than once Dr. Hummel assured me that should the editorial work take too much of my time, I could request for additional compensation which he would support. Accordingly, in my report to Dr. Hummel, I requested for an additional amount of $750 which I thought would be a fair honorarium for the Library to pay for a work of this kind.
There is, of course, no need at all to arrange for its payment until the whole editorial work is completed. But these facts should be submitted to you in order that there should be no misunderstanding when the final payment is made.
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六月十五日
陈源覆函先生，询问病情及告知赵元任及本人行程。
守和吾兄：
奉手教，欣悉大驾莅英已有多日，贵恙想已康复，何日来伦，乞示知，以便把晤。“政府”改组，兹将名单抄录奉上。刊物曾列部长名字，但未有次长。刊物尚望尧圣兄按期寄上。元任兄下周由美来，仅停留一日，即去巴黎。弟亦须去法开会，但数日即返。叔华近日忙于作画。因秋间在中美有一画展，须赶紧筹备也。草此，顺颂痊祺。
弟陈源顿首
六月十五
〔University of Chicago Library, Yuan T'ung-li Papers, Box 7〕
按：“尧圣兄”即陈尧圣（1911—？），浙江上杭人，燕京大学、英国伦敦大学毕业，历任国民党中央组织部总干事，国联同志会秘书，外交部情报司科长、驻英大使一等秘书。1950年英国与台湾“断交”后，陈尧圣继续留在英国，以私人身份创办“自由中国”新闻社，并成立“自由中国”之友协会，出版中英文周刊等，曾任英国各大学中国委员会委员、中国协会理事、伦敦华侨联谊会会长等职。6月21日，赵元任夫妇及赵来思抵达伦敦，23日即渡海至欧洲大陆旅行。
七月十日
胡适致函先生，就申请中基会恢复资助《西文汉学书目》（考狄书目续编）给予初步意见。
守和兄：
久不通问，不知你此时在何处。
三月廿七日你给中基会的信，本年十月二日的年会当可提出讨论。但此时中基会的情形，已非1950年可比。这几年来，中基会的收入，差不多全部用在台湾大学与各省立学院，此项用途都系常年的Commitments，不能中断，也不能挪移。额外的用途，必须于每年度终了时的盈余项下筹之。
老兄三月廿七日的公函没有提及每年所需的款项数额。乞斟酌最低需要，赐函示知，以便提出讨论。鄙意拟提议：即以兄1951年退还本会之$1800，于本年（1954）度盈余项下提出，作九个月的津贴，每月贰百元。另于同项盈余下提出六百元，补足此项，作为1955年全年的津贴，总数为$2400。其1956年的津贴，则留待明年年会时提出决定。
如此办法，较为容易筹措。乞兄考虑赐示，至感。能在八月内见覆，最好。匆匆，敬祝双安。
弟胡适敬上
一九五四，七，十
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按：胡适在本函中提及补助先生的设想，确为中基会最后实施之办法。
七月十一日
傅乐淑覆函先生，请在英照俄文书两种。
袁先生赐鉴：
敬奉手谕，谢谢！谢谢！知先生仍在英国，正为欣慰。按李先生推测，先生或已离英去欧陆矣。晚甚盼先生万机之暇代晚从英国照书两种：（一）即Golovin尼布楚条约之俄文条约，并有俄使之签字，在原书第九——廿一页，此件数页最好在英国洗出；（二）异域录之俄文翻译本，据说是从满文翻出，按现在可以看到的异域录（中文的）多从丛书中抄出，虽以何秋涛之熟于北徼掌故，也只见到一种节本，最近晚“发现”了一种“全本”（？），但苦于不知是否满文译本还是一部较迟的版本。此书有法文二、英文一、德文一、俄文二，译本之多。最流行的英文译本系从中文本译出，晚甚想找到俄文本对一对，以便搞清楚到底满文本是否有1721年以后的记载。此书两俄译本，至少有一个从俄文译出，现大英博物馆即有一部。晚也恳film一部（不必洗出），晚将□屋中看一下其□事至那一年为止，以便推测□书满文第一版是否与流行的汉文节本相同。一切拜托之处，容日后叩谢。晚暂奉上十元，为照像之资，不足时将如数补奉。晚不日即搬家，新居仍在105th街上，与陶维大住隔壁。晚有厨房，将来先生偕夫人来纽约，将晚欢迎前来，晚当道谢奉觞。又晚有旧同学陈志让君，此人据云已入英籍，与一英人结婚，现在Boxer处工作，晚将来若仍有需要从英照书之处，拟径函陈君代办。先生若知此人地址，将来不妨示知，如不知此人亦不必费神打听。晚已翻完实录，日内将去哈佛work小住。匆匆，此请双安。
晚傅乐淑叩
七月十一日
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按：傅乐淑（1917-2003），山东聊城人，傅斯年侄女，历史学家，1952年获芝加哥大学历史学博士学位，时在美执教。Golovin即签订《尼布楚条约》俄方代表之一Фёдор Алексеевич Головин（Feodor Alekseyevich Golovin, 1650-1706），该条约中被记作“俄昆尼”，《清史稿》中则称作“费岳多”。《异域录》，图理琛撰，介绍蒙、俄地理历史的专著，成书于清康熙五十四年（1715）。何秋涛（1824-1862），清代地理学家，字巨源，福建光泽人，著有《朔方备乘》《北徼汇编》等。陶维大，陶孟和之女。陈志让（Jerome Chen, 1919-2019），生于四川成都，1943年毕业于西南联大经济系，1947年获中英庚款奖学金赴英留学，授业于哈耶克（Friedrich August von Hayek, 1899-1992）。
七月十五日
先生与夫人在巴斯古镇游览。〔University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library, Yuen Ren Chao papers, carton 10, folder 39, Yuan, Tongli and Yuan, Huixi〕
按：巴斯是英格兰西南部的一座古老小城，属于英格兰埃文郡东部的科兹沃，古罗马人最早在这里发现了温泉，兴建了庞大的浴场，如今成为重要的历史遗迹。
七月十六日
先生致信赵元任、杨步伟夫妇，询问其腰伤并告知在英行期，邀二人前来同游牛津。
元任先生、韵卿夫人：
预计你们的行程大约是在德国，又看见报载德奥边界大水，正深怀念。顷奉赐书，欣悉已抵南德，如能抽晤，极盼你们能到维也纳一游，该处为音乐发祥之地，真令人留恋不舍，且物价均较其他城市便宜也。元任先生腰筋扭了，想已痊愈。德国温泉甚多，望去洗澡，必有帮助。南德有按摩专家，亦可就近一试。我们昨日到英国西南部Bath看罗马时代建筑的温泉浴室，可惜不能下浴，须经当地医生证明确有风湿症者方能入院沐浴，但德国确无此限制也。下月剑桥开会，弟拟前往参加，内人听说约他一同游玩，很愿相陪。在开会时极欢迎你们来舍下小住，地方虽小而又简陋，但内人热诚欢迎。牛津左近为莎氏比亚故里，均值得参观。弟前患小便闭塞之症，住院月余，近已完全复元，目疾亦愈。接尊处电报时正在割治之时，故未能到伦敦趋晤。来书谓致蒋仲雅28 Southmoor Road, Oxford明片装在信内，嘱为转交，但信封内并未发现，想忘却了。余俟面谈，顺颂旅安。
同礼顿首
七月十六
Lowry同此致意，慧熙附笔问安。
〔University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library, Yuen Ren Chao papers, carton 10, folder 39, Yuan, Tongli and Yuan, Huixi〕
Finding Aid to the Yuen Ren Chao papers BANC MSS 83/30 c，p. 23.
按：7月2日，赵元任在瑞典突发腰痛，4日略有好转。蒋仲雅即蒋彝；Lowry似指Thomas P. Lowry
，待考。
八月四日
徐亮致函先生，告知华盛顿、国会图书馆近况。
守和先生赐鉴：
顷接惠寄之回单两纸，均已妥收，至谢至谢。黄瑞泰先生处业已去函告知，谅不久定收到以应急需。承先生慨允相助办理各事，衷心感激。来示云将参加国际东方学会，届时当遇不少之汉学家，交换意见对于学术界裨益实深也。世界局势动荡不已，在此数月之后必有显明之发展，权且拭目以待。华京天气数日前奇热，温度达百零三度，晚间大汗奔流，不能成寐，颇为所苦。现在热度稍降，略为舒适。子明先生现正休假，已至Atlantic City一游。东方部主任人选尚未定妥，据云有三十余“射猎”，此位置最后决定当俟新馆长Mumford莅任以后方能发表。小弟自有此血压高之毛病以后，不敢妄动，以免意外发生，故今夏不拟驱车远行，拟于周末休假二天，如此不操劳真能收休养之效果。专此敬覆，敬请大安。
袁太太问安，澄兄佳好。
小弟徐亮上
内人附笔请安
八月四日
〔University of Chicago Library, Yuan T'ung-li Papers, Box 2〕
Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress, for the fiscal year eding June 30, 1956, Washington, 1957, p. v.
按：Mumford即Lawrence Q. Mumford（1903-1982），1954年至1974年担任美国国会图书馆第11任馆长。1955年7月18日，Horace I. Poleman（1905-1965）被任命为东亚部主任。
八月六日
马如容覆函先生，告知所问人名并谈胡适近访加州大学伯克利分校。
202 South Hall
Univ. of California
Berkeley 4, Calif.
August 6, 1954
Dear Dr. Yuan:
I have your air letter of August 2 which reached my yesterday. I am glad to hear from you, and to learn that you are not in and around New York but in England.
The name of Professor Bing Chin Wong in Chinese is黄炳泉. In order to be sure that I am not wrong, I checked up with Mrs. Wong this morning who still resides in Berkeley. I have known Dr. Wong ever since he arrived from China when he was about 17 or 18 years old, for we were attending the same school in San Francisco—in fact, we were classmates in the 7th and 8th grades. We again met when I came to California for my first year of graduate work. When I returned to California in 1919, following a year of graduate work at Illinois, he was a reader in the Dept. of Mathematics, while I had a stroke of fortune by being appointed Teaching Fellow in Political Science. He took his Ph. D. a year after I did, after which both of us were appointed to the faculty until he unfortunately passed away some years ago, while I am still living on borrowed time. His death is a great loss to our Chinese in his field. He comes from广东台山.
Here in Berkeley we had the good fortune of visiting with Dr. Hu when he was on his way to and back from Taipeh recently. He is the greatest asset we have as far as “Free China” is concerned. This is not my opinion alone, but the general consensus everywhere as far as I know. He is in good health. My daughter, Mrs. Frank Yao, who is Reference Librarian at the School of Social Work, Columbia University, reports to us from time to time on his workaday life. We just can't get him away from there. President Sproul of California had made him the most flattering of offers, but for reasons known to himself only he prefers New York. Probably that metropolis has got into his blood. Anyhow, he's happy where he is, and that is most important.
The Y. R. Chaos'are now in Europe. I presume they had dropped in on you while they were on their way. Dr. Chao is on a year's leave.
With warmest regards and the summer's greetings, I am
Sincerely yours,
N. Wing Mah
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按：马如容（Mah, Ngui-Wing, 1893—？），1921年获得加州大学博士，其论文题目为Foreign jurisdiction in China。Bing Chin Wong的中文名实为黄炳铨（1890—？），数学家，1923年获得加州大学博士学位，其论文题目为A study and classification of ruled quartic surfaces by means of a point-to-line transformation。
Giuliano Bertuccioli覆函先生，告知其已赴香港担任意大利驻香港副领事，并谈撰写《本草品汇精要》及相关论文的初衷。
Hongkong 6/8/54
Dear Dr. Yuan:
It has been very kind of you to write to me from Oxford. Many years have elapsed since we met in 1946 in Nanking and talked about that Chinese manuscript which is preserved in the Central Library of Rome.
Writing the article about the Pen-ts'ao p'in-hui ching-yao, it has been my aim to prove that it was brought to Italy in the middle of the Nineteenth Century by a missionary. In the future I would like to publish something more about its authors and about the painters who illustrated it.About this I would appreciate your advice.
Since September 1953 I am in Hongkong as Vice Consul so that I will not be able to go to Rome in the near future. But do please call on my wife who stays with my parents in Rome at Lungotevere delle Navi 30（Tel. 30948）
I am enclosing for you another reprint, a small article about a little known writer of the Ming Dynasty and whose work I have nearly completely translated.
Hoping to read from you again.
Yours sincerely
Giuliano Bertuccioli
〔University of Chicago Library, Yuan T'ung-li Papers, Box 3〕
按：Giuliano Bertuccioli（1923-2001），中文名白佐良，意大利汉学家。Pen-ts'ao p'in-hui ching-yao即《本草品汇精要》，由明孝宗敕令编绘，we met in 1946 in Nanking and talked about that Chinese manuscript所指应为该书的抄本，先生在1934年访问罗马期间曾在梵蒂冈发现此彩绘书稿。Lungotevere delle Navi即海军河岸，罗马弗拉米尼奥区的一段台伯河岸，连接吉亚科莫·马泰奥蒂桥与美术广场。落款处为其签名。
八月七日 牛津
先生致信程其保，告此前寄上《现代中国数学研究目录》卡片，并委托其排印、出版事宜。
August 7, 1954
Dear Dr. Cheng:
The bibliographical cards on mathematical literature written by Chinese scholars were mailed to you early this month. They should be received after three weeks.
The title of the bibliography may be called: Modern China and Mathematics: a bibliographical guide. If you should decide to have it printed by photolithographic process, they should be typed by a well-trained typist. She should be held responsible for proof-reading. I now enclose some suggestions for her to follow.
In selecting a publisher, the Interscience Publishers, Inc., 250 Fifth Avenue, New York City, may be considered. I shall leave the matter entirely to your discretion. I only hope that the manuscript may soon be published, as I have already spent a great deal of my time in bringing it to completion.
With sincere greetings and best wishes,
Yours sincerely,
T. L. Yuan
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八月十八日
赵元任驱车来访，先生与之一同到埃文河畔斯特拉特福（Stratford-upon-Avon）参观莎士比亚故居。〔《赵元任年谱》，页335〕
八月二十四日
钱存训致函先生，告已顺利通过博士入学考试及英国人出售《永乐大典》事。
守和先生：
前得手片，敬悉旅况佳胜，至深欣慰。久未修书致候，只因自暑季以来，即忙于准备Ph. D.笔试，因许多课程皆系六七年前所读，教员已经数易，新出书刊，不得不多加浏览。现考试已于三周前举行，共计两天，十四小时，共分三类，（一）研究方法，（二）目录史（Specialization），（三）普通图书馆学，内包括八专门：School, Academic, Public Libraries, Library History, Bibliographic Organization, Classification, Communication, International Librarianship。上周得校中通知已经Pass，前两类均属A等，后一类平均B+，故成绩尚算不差。惟尚有法文及论文尚待完成，论文题前拟写“先秦两汉书史”，现拟仍旧。我公在欧，不知能否代为留意搜集一点有关材料。闻大英博物院藏有汉纸及竹简未经印行者，乞代为觅取照相影本及说明，校中有研究费可以申请应用，如费用较多，乞示知，当先行汇奉也。（巴黎除已印行之汉简外不知有与书籍制度有关之材料否？）此间一切如常，Creel君下年升任东方语文系之Chairman（伊原仅主管中文部分），伊仍有意请董彦堂来此，成立古史研究中心，但款尚无着也。家兄在英甚不得意，前拟来美，亦有困难，只好暂时图一糊口之计也。令公子在英闻成绩超群，不知何时可以结束。念念，敬请旅安。
后学存训拜上
八月廿四日
再者，日昨得一英人来函，拟出售其家藏《永乐大典》两册，闻经大英博物院McAleavy鉴定，为卷803-806“诗”及卷10110-10112“纸”韵两册，均未经尊著收藏表著录，我公在英或已见及。此间不拟收购（不知索价若干，来函未说明）。王有三君不知现在是否仍在馆，如他处无人收购，似可致函王兄托人接洽收归国有也。其人通讯处如下：
Beatrice Brazier（Mrs. W. R. Brazier）Spinnakers, Sevenoaks, Kent, England.
闻系James R. Brazier于1901在北京觅得。
〔University of Chicago Library, Yuan T'ung-li Papers, Box 2〕
The North-China Desk Hong List, 1909, p. 275.
按：McAleavy即Henry McAleavy（1912-1968），英国汉学家，曾在英国驻华使馆工作，时应在大英博物馆东方部写本部兼职。信中所言两册《永乐大典》分别为诗字、纸字（只字等）册，现均藏于爱尔兰切斯特·比蒂图书馆（Chester Beatty Library）。James R. Brazier，曾任福公司（Pekin Syndicate. Ld.）北京地区总代理。
八月二十五日 剑桥
下午，先生出席东方学会议（Congress of Orientalists），并以台湾地区和中国大陆的学术研究为主题做报告，尤其以安阳考古挖掘、长沙考古挖掘的收获为介绍重点。〔The Manchester Guardian, Aug. 26.1954, p. 3〕
八月二十六日
蒋彝致函先生、夫人，约三十一日聚餐。
守和先生、夫人有道：
日前再扰郇厨，余香在口，谢谢。兹请于八月卅一日（星期二）下午六时半，移玉至香港楼58 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W. 1餐叙，约有元任先生、夫人及三小姐与通伯贤伉俪及其女公子等，祈赏光勿却是幸。耑此，敬颂俪安。
弟蒋彝顿首
八月廿六日
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按：“三小姐”即赵来思。“女公子”即陈小滢，陈源与凌叔华的独女。
九月一日
先生与赵元任一同驱车前往苏格兰。〔《赵元任年谱》，页336〕
按：此行途经纽卡斯尔、爱丁堡及约克。
九月六日
先生与赵元任回抵伦敦。〔《赵元任年谱》，页336〕
九月十日 牛津
先生致信钱存训，就大英博物馆所藏汉简情况、大陆考古相关之新发现略作介绍，并请其考虑代为向芝加哥大学转售图书一种。
公垂吾兄：
奉八月廿四日手教，欣悉博士考试均已通过，成绩优异，闻之甚慰，特此申贺。嘱搜集有关材料，大英博物院近印之Maspero考释之汉简想已见及，未印行者究有若干，曾经函询，但迄无复音，想主持之人不甚内行也。俟与之晤面后再为催询。近三年长沙发掘之竹简、木简、丝绢上有文字以及战国时代之毛笔等见本年六月廿五及七月九日香港《大公报》均可加以研究。按一九五一年长沙发掘系科学院考古研究所主持，一九五二五月至一九五三年四月则由湖南文化管理委员会主持，当时发掘596坟墓，雇用一批职业盗墓人，从事于粗率的发掘，因未采用科学方法，以致历史文化遭到破坏见一九五三年二月四日《光明日报》。两机关之发掘报告迄未出版，但内中关于秦汉书史之资料甚多。吾兄可函托森玉、西谛两兄设法搜集西谛任文化部副部长。弟曾函询王有三及曾昭燏南京博物院院长、贺长群南京图书馆馆长、向达诸人，均无复音，想由大陆寄信到英亦不易也。Michael Sullivan在本年出版Art Bulletin（College Art Association）Vol. xxxvi（march, 1954）曾有一文Pictorial Art and the Attitude toward Nature in Ancient China述及长沙出土之文字，前已函告，渠引用之中文书Fig. 1帛书采自楚民族及其艺术，Shanghai, 1948, Ⅱ, pl.□-1-19，想尊处业已入藏矣（曾在莫太太处见此书）。又弟误购两部一九五二出版之《十竹斋笺谱》，兹以一部交平邮寄上，如芝大或Art Institute of Chicago愿购时可告其将书款径寄香港蔚林书店（地址列后），书价135港币外加寄费，发票附在书内，希注意。将来可请该书店另补发票及收据以完手续，否则由弟出名出售，请兄代为签字可也。下周将赴德法，住址不定，两月以后方能返英，届时当再函达。匆匆，顺颂俪安。
弟袁同礼顿首
九月十日
Willing Book Co., Room 7, 20 Ice House Street, Hong Kong
〔钱孝文藏札〕
按：Maspero即Henri Maspero，（1883-1945），法国语言学家、汉学家，中文名马伯乐，“考释之汉简”即Les Documents chinois de la Troisieme Expedition de Sir Aurel Stein en Asie Centrale，现通译为《斯坦因第三次中亚考古所获汉文文献》。Michael Sullivan即苏立文（1916-2013），加拿大汉学家、艺术史家。“楚民族及其艺术”指蒋玄佁著《长沙“楚民族及其艺术”》第二卷《图腾遗迹绢画雕刻》，美术考古学社专刊之一，该卷1950年由美术考古学社（上海）出版，非1948年。
九月十七日 巴黎
先生致信图齐，为自己因病无法按时完成马可波罗书目而致歉，并告知将赴威尼斯看展及在罗马停留的时间、在德通讯地址等。
c/o Chinese Embassy
Paris
17 September, 1954
Dear Professor Tucci:
My recent illness which necessitated a major operation in an English hospital has delayed much of my work. It is a great disappointment to me that I shall not be able to compile a good bibliography on Marco Polo, much against my wish. In order to do a good job, it would take considerable time and energy. I now find that I could do so after my recent illness.
Professor Elisséeff of Harvard told me that the exhibit at Venice will close on October 10. I would very much like to see this exhibition, so I shall have cut short my visit to Germany. I do hope to have a glimpse of it before it closes.
Dr. Olschki told me that I should give a talk at your Institute when I come to Rome in October. Unfortunately, I shall be in Rome only for a week, October 13-18, and I thought that your program must have been overcrowded and that you have had enough speakers this year.
In case your Institute would like to have me included, perhaps you would be good enough to drop me a note at the following address:
Professor T. L. Yuan, c/o Dr. W. Haenisch, Universitats-Bibliothek, Marburg, Germany.
If you think the audience would be interested in the recent archaeological discoveries in China, I shall be glad to give a talk on this subject.
With best wishes for your success,
Yours sincerely,
T. L. Yuan
Please give my kindest regards to Dr. Olschki.
〔University of Chicago Library, Yuan T'ung-li Papers, Box 4〕
按：the exhibit at Venice应为威尼斯举办的有关马可波罗的展览。此件为录副。
九月二十日
王铃致函先生，谈英国汉学研究的现状并请介绍其赴欧美大学任教。
守和先生尊鉴：
不亲诲谕忽又月余，两奉手教并杂志，关顾之忱，不敢一日而忘之。尊照由Owen, 90 Cambridge Rd. Shelford拍摄，已去函催促，如不获答即亲去理论。此镇不过数哩之遥，自行车半小时可达也。晚旅英几年，恒叹欧洲汉学自哈新、道问达相继谢世后，硕学君子寥若晨星，无术庸才忝居高位。于是竞立门户，植党营私，鞠养提携，助相说引，致使中国学者笃行力学，辛苦无闻，博达通人无缘自见。其势力远播异土，或印尼中文系为荷籍小儿一手把持，或澳大利亚汉学惟伦敦东方学院之命是听，乃至港大教授呀呀不能为语，印度讲师瞠目难辨诗书。至若牛津、剑桥并国学大师陈寅恪者，亦不过昙花一现。下而论之，钱锺书既不见纳于前，杨廉升又复拖延于后。忍看今日祖国文化之海外传授，几何而不为犹太人之天下也。排外之心，欧洲以英国为最，英国又以剑桥为最，生徒既寥寥无几，教席更装饰门面，课程洋洋大观，往往有教授而无学生。下学期增设中国文学科目乃一犹太小子，上车不落之徒，从而趋附钻营、冠冕沐猴，又且执圣贤之书以欺世矣。
此次在东方学会露丑，辱蒙诸先辈过誉，鼓舞精神不少。去岁于剑桥大学讲中国数学史一学期，听众颇多，硕学之士尚谬获好评。下学期亚基米德学会亦邀作学术讲演，凡此虚荣，殊无补生计，所可惜者，频年搜集材料若干，发表无由，长此因循怠惰作傢依人，终非久远之计。且喜尼德汉书成有日，固尼氏一人之力，自度甚无建树，亦从兹了却些许心愿，后此校雠补缀不为难事。虽尼公厚意挽留，晚之去留实无伤此书进展。先生望重群伦，足迹所经谅多各学术界消息，尤忆十数年前傅公孟真为说先生有提携美意，以仓促远行未遑申谢，在英一度握手，又匆匆不罄欲言。几年以来，熊式一老伯爱我最深，此去星岛或重膺求贤之命，已初步有所接洽。熊老伯称南洋规模草创，刻犹一片荒郊，度建屋招生或非一年不办。际此期间，晚颇有意去美国一行。曾于大会中结识哈佛Elisséeff及哥伦比亚Goodrich，拟寄去拙作尚未发表者一二份，保持联络。他如加里复尼亚乃至欧美任何学校，但求一易环境，不计地位、薪金。晚在此与世隔绝，家庭不快，种种难以卒言，先生其何以教我耶？余不一一。肃此，敬请尊安。
晚王铃敬上
九月二十日
骆惠敏夫妇均在巴黎，已去函。
〔University of Chicago Library, Yuan T'ung-li Papers, Box 2〕
按：王铃（1917-1994），江苏南通人，历史学家，毕业于中央大学，后协助李约瑟编纂《中国科学技术史》。“尼德汉书”即《中国的科学与文明》（Science and Civilization in China）。1954年，熊式一随林语堂到新加坡南洋大学任教，受聘文学院院长，1955年4月离职。
九月二十六日
王铃致函先生，告知熊式一已离英赴新加坡。
守和先生尊前：
前函计达，今附上照相馆来信，如尚未寄到，晚再去追询。上星期六去伦敦送熊老伯行，昔以牛津、剑桥相去不远，今更不知后会何期矣。尊驾过英时，务乞赐示，俾得再亲训诲。他日云山修阻，趋教无由也。余不一一。肃此，敬请旅安。
晚王铃敬上
九月二十六日
Prof. W. Hartner, Prof. & Mrs. W. Franke, Dr. Fuchs, Dr. Hulsewé，晤面时均乞代问好。
〔University of Chicago Library, Yuan T'ung-li Papers, Box 9〕
按：Prof. W. Hartner应指Willy Hartner（1905-1981），德国科学家、自然科学史学家；Prof. & Mrs. W. Franke即傅吾康与其夫人胡隽吟；Dr. Hulsewé即A. F. P. Hulsewé（1910-1933），荷兰汉学家，中文名何四维。
九月二十八日
程其保覆函先生，此前寄送卡片业已收到并请人重打以便保存，如需补助出版或可与梅贻琦商洽办法。
守和先生有道：
迭奉手示及卡片一包，至深感佩。卡片登记均代改正，并已由月涵先生饬人用打字机重打一遍，以便保存。至付印一层，据月涵先生意稍缓再商。至先生前云拟将关于生物著作提前收集，不知现进行至何程度，万一须少数补助经费，月涵先生或可设法也。专复，并颂双安。
弟程其保顿首
九，廿八日
陈通伯及熊式一诸兄晤时，请代为问候。
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九月下旬
先生路过法兰克福。〔University of Chicago Library, Yuan T'ung-li Papers, Box 4〕
十月十六日
顾维钧致函先生，告知已将哥伦比亚大学欧美校友所捐款项汇寄母校，并附捐款征信录一份。
同礼吾兄台鉴：
今年欣逢哥仑比亚大学二百周年纪念，前校长艾森豪威将军在就任美总统前曾有函致钧，冀我哥大同学对母校有所表示。经将此意转达旅居美欧及台湾各同学，并建议筹捐，多承赞助、慷慨输将。除台湾哥大中国同学会已集款购得《四库备要》全套径运哥大外，美欧两地同学共捐美金壹仟伍佰伍拾元。一再洽询各方后，经循公意，以现金扫数赠送哥大作为购备中文或有关中国之英文绝版书籍，以供母校学生参考之用。当时备函将款汇寄哥大校长之时，胡适之兄正在华府，因照若干同学主张去函，由胡适之、郭秉文及钧三人会签发出。顷接哥大校长复函，对我同学爱护母校之热忱深引感慰。兹特将钧等与哥大校长来往函暨去函所附捐款人名单影本各一份，连同经收捐款征信录一份随函奉上，统祈台察为祷。耑此，并颂时祺。
顾维钧拜启
十月十六日
〔袁同礼家人提供〕
按：“哥大校长”时为Grayson Kirk（1903-1997），1968年因该校学生运动被迫辞职。该函为文书代笔，落款处并钤印。后附“捐款征信录（名次以学位年份为序）”二页，其中先生捐款25美金。
十月二十三日
刘国蓁致函先生，告新亚书院尚未设立图书馆，请其赐介绍信以便向林语堂毛遂自荐。
守和博士先生尊鉴：
敬启者，未修书敬候瞬经数月，蒹葭秋水，倍切溯洄。敬维文祺懋集，著业延釐，至以为颂。五月时拜奉由英伦来示，敬悉种切。八月时报载先生讲学情形，欣喜无似。想台驾仍继续留英，至明春方返回美国也。来示附代致顾子刚先生信，经已即为转达，未悉有无覆音为念。蒙介绍谒见钱宾四院长，殊深感铭，惟该院尚未有图书馆设立，是以未有机会为憾。晚仍旧在《华侨日报》任事，工作烦忙，尚未觅得日间工作，生活极感困难。近日载报南洋大学校长林语堂博士将于本月底来港一行，并准备在港搜购图书，可能延聘师资等，而南洋大学创办伊始，此举当有可能，尤其是新兴之图书馆必需人才。用是不揣冒昧，恳请鼎力赞勷，赐寄一介绍函与晚，待林校长到港时持函拜晤，藉此多拼机会。若得一枝可托南洋，离港亦不甚远也。倘蒙俯允，感荷恩慈，寔无既极。临书不胜迫切待命之至。专此，敬请崇安。
愚晚国蓁顿首
一九五四年十月廿三日
〔袁同礼家人提供〕
按：该函寄送牛津，后又被转递巴黎。
十月
先生赴罗马访书。〔袁同礼家人提供〕
按：先生在罗马停留时间不长，未能与图齐等意大利学者见面。
先生在威尼斯，遇Bo Gyllensvärd及Orvar Karlbeck夫妇。〔University of Chicago Library, Yuan T'ung-li Papers, Box 4〕
按：Bo Gyllensvärd（1916-2004），瑞典汉学家，时应任斯德哥尔摩东亚博物馆（Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm）馆长；Orvar Karlbeck（1879-1967），瑞典工程师，1906年至1927年、1928年至1934年在华参与铁路规划与施工，爱好铜器并广泛收集。
先生在日内瓦短暂停留，并与Arthur Breycha-Vauthier晤谈。〔University of Chicago Library, Yuan T'ung-li Papers, Box 4〕
按：Arthur Breycha-Vauthier（1903-1986），奥地利图书馆学家，时应在联合国文化机构服务。
先生赴德国马尔堡（Marburg），并访霍福民。〔University of Chicago Library, Yuan T'ung-li Papers, Box 4〕
十一月一日 巴黎
先生与夫人至郭有守家，晤赵元任等人，并一同外出访友。〔《赵元任年谱》，页337〕
按：先生与夫人宿巴黎15区，Hôtel Institut, 23 Boulevard Pasteur。
十一月九日
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation致函先生，请就陈受颐学术水平和申请计划书予以评价。
November 9, 1954
Dear Dr. Yuan:
May I have your careful judgment of Dr. Shou-Yi Ch'en's quality as a scholar, of his proposal for research, and of him with reference to that proposal? A statement of the project is attached hereto.
Anything you say will be held in the strictest confidence.
Sincerely yours,
James F. Mathias
Associate Secretary
〔University of Chicago Library, Yuan T'ung-li Papers, Box 2〕
按：此件为打字稿，落款处为其签名，该函寄送华美协进社（纽约）。
十一月中旬
先生及夫人离开巴黎前往布鲁塞尔，略作停留。〔袁同礼家人提供〕
11月23日袁慧熙致赵元任、杨步伟的信中只提到代理院长是先生的“熟朋友”，结合前后史料可知，应该指何四维，特此说明。
先生及夫人前往荷兰，在莱顿大学汉学研究所（Sinological Institute, Leiden University）查阅该院图书馆资料，何四维
等人提供特别帮助和便利条件，每日到晚上十时半才休息。〔University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library, Yuen Ren Chao papers, carton 10, folder 39, Yuan, Tongli and Yuan, Huixi〕
十一月十八日
傅吾康致函先生，告知王铃在前往杜伦的途中突然变卦，恐不宜聘为自己的助手，并告已代为征求所需德文书籍。
November 18, 1954
Dear Dr. Yuan:
Many thanks for your letter from Roma dated October 16. Please forgive me for answering you as late as today. Mrs. Franke and I are feeling in fact very disappointed that you could not manage to visit Hamburg. We would have been most happy to welcome you here and to talk with you.
I am most grateful to you for having thought about the question to find a suitable Chinese scholar to assist me at Hamburg University. The matter is in fact very urgent question to me. I have approached already some people but so far without any definite result. I have met Mr. Wang Ling at Cambridge and I am convinced that he is a good and promising scholar. But there is another question. We had this summer an experience not too favourable with him. After some hesitation and after having been encouraged by some other people Mr. Wang made finally in the last minute up his mind to join the Junior Sinologues Conference at Durham. All participants departed in common including him after the closure of the Cambridge Congress by special coach to Durham. After the first stop he decided without any obvious reason that he would cancel his participation and to back to Cambridge. Several other participants-among them Mrs. Franke-tried to comfort him and to persuade him to stay, but without success. He insisted to go back to Cambridge and did so. Therefrom I have the impression that Mr. Wang is a rather unstable character. Under the guidance and under the personal influence of a personality like Dr. Needham Mr. Wang does apparently very good work. Now I must confess that I have not much ability to influence and to induce others, who are under my direction, to work if they do not have the initiatives and the diligence to work spontaneously. Among others I have particularly one case in mind. I am sure you remember Mr. Ku Hua, a very intelligent and promising young man doing probably very good work as long as he was under your personal guidance in the National Library. But when after departure from Peking he went to the Deutschland-Institut in 1939 or 1940 he became under my guidance every day more lazy and more indolent and he was spoiled in a way that after your return to Peking in 1945（or 46?）even you could make no more use of him in the National Library. Of course it is evident that the characters of Ku Hua and Wang Ling are very different, I do not know Mr. Wang well enough to understand if he is working spontaneously or if he needs a guidance like yours or Dr. Needham. I would be most grateful to you for giving me your opinion on this question before deciding if I should approach Mr. Wang or not.
We have listed your desideratum “Chinas Geist und Kraft” by Tao Pung-fei, hoping to get a copy for you.
With best wishes from my wife and myself.
Yours sincerely,
Wolfgang Franke
〔University of Chicago Library, Yuan T'ung-li Papers, Box 2〕
按：Tao Pung-fei，应为Tao Pung-fai。陶鹏飞，辽宁凤城人，东北大学毕业后赴德国留学，在柏林大学、洪堡大学学习，后与张学良女儿张闾瑛结婚，时为布雷斯劳大学（Universität Breslau）讲师，其著作Chinas Geist und Kraft直译为《中国：精神与力量》，1935年出版。傅吾康对打字稿略有修改，落款处为其签名。该函寄送熊式一处收转。
十一月二十三日
先生及夫人抵达牛津。〔University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library, Yuen Ren Chao papers, carton 10, folder 39, Yuan, Tongli and Yuan, Huixi〕
按：夫人曾致信赵元任、杨步伟夫妇，告知巴黎别后经过。
十一月二十八日 伦敦
先生致信赵元任夫妇，告知返美计划并谈在英近况。
元任先生、夫人：
数日前曾上一书，计已达览。顷由牛津转来手教，拜悉一一。关于移民局取缔益严一节，弟等在荷兰时亦见该报，诸承关怀，感谢无似。弟等拟于Re-entry期满之前一月离此返美，并预将护照有效期限由“大使馆”延长一年，如此则一切无问题矣。伦敦天气甚暖，迄今并未下雾，可称幸事。日内拟赴剑桥查书。兹奉上日人仓石近著见后中国语之书名，想加大或已入藏矣。余容再陈，顺颂俪安。
弟同礼顿首
内人附笔问候
十一月廿八
仓石武四郎《中国语初级教本》，东京岩波书店发行。
子杰兄赐书拜悉，谢谢，祈代问候。
〔University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library, Yuen Ren Chao papers, carton 10, folder 39, Yuan, Tongli and Yuan, Huixi〕
按：“仓石近著”全称为《ラテン化新文字による中国语初级教本》（依据拉丁化新文字的汉语初级教科书），1953年岩波书店出版。
十一月三十日 牛津
先生覆信傅吾康，就王铃情绪不稳定略作解释，并表示有可能前往剑桥与之面谈，请协助查明中国留德博士的姓名，另询洪涛生的联系地址。
13 Portland Road
Oxford, England
30th November, 1954
Dear Dr. Franke:
Thank you very much indeed for your letter of November 18 which has been waiting me here. I remained at Leiden and the Hague too long which prevented me from returning England sooner.
I am interested in what you say about the Durham episode. I knew nothing about it. All I know is that since Mr. Wang was divorced by his wife, he has not been very happy. There is doubt that that he will work very hard under your direction and a change of environment may do him good. I shall probably go to Cambridge after Christmas and will find out whether Mr. Wang is able to leave his post. Personal contact would be better than correspondence.
While in Marburg, I had a good time with Alfred Hoffmann who showed me the “Nachrichten” published in Hamburg. Could you be good enough to ask the publisher to send me a copy regularly with his bill? I should like to keep in close touch with the scientific work going on in Germany and this journal seems to be the best one I have so far seen.
I enclose a list of Chinese students who wrote their dissertations in German. Since you have students from China who remained in Germany for many years, it is possible that they might know their Chinese names. May I ask you to find them for me? Much obliged.
I hear that Mr. Hundhausen has returned to Germany and I shall be grateful if you would inform me his address. If you happen to know sinological scholars in Denmark and Finland, will you let me know their names.
I shall be here until early in February and I hope to hear good news from time to time. With sincere regards to you and Mrs. Franke.
Yours sincerely,
〔University of Chicago Library, Yuan T'ung-li Papers, Box 2〕
按：Nachrichten直译作“消息”，具体所指待考。此件为底稿。
十二月六日
先生致信戴密微，感谢在巴黎期间给予的帮助和招待，并寄上陈寅恪近作目录，请香港书商代为购买并寄送。
6th December, 1954
Dear Professor Demiéville:
I wish to thank you once more for your courtesy and assistance extended to me during my recent visit. I am most grateful to you for the sympathetic support you have given me in connection with my work. Although it is a labour of love, one is apt to get discouraged if other scholars do not attach any importance to his labours.
During my travels I have misplaced the slip containing the titles of recent works by Professor who is now in Peking. I give the titles below, and I have asked a bookstore in Hong Kong to mail them to you direct, if they could obtain copies from the mainland.
Whenever you have time, I shall appreciate to have from you a bibliographical list of your writings on China including periodical articles. Such a list would help me a great deal in my work.
Under separate cover, I am sending you a copy of a recent work on patterned silk in China. I trust that you may like to have it for your own collection.
With Season's greetings and warmest regards,
Yours sincerely,
T. L. Yuan
〔University of Chicago Library, Yuan T'ung-li Papers, Box 3〕
按：该件录副，空白处付诸阙如，应填写陈寅恪。参见本年12月25日戴密微函，可推知先生此信寄出之件亦忘记在底部注明陈寅恪近作篇目。
十二月八日
先生致信德礼贤神父，请其协助编纂意大利文中有中国的书目，并建议其为《天主教入华史》第四卷向美国学术机构申请资助。
December 8, 1954
Dear Professor D'Elia:
May I thank you once more for the reprints of your scholarly articles which you have been good enough to send to me? Your courtesy and kind remembrance has been gratefully appreciated.
I have been trying to compile a list of books in Italian relating to China. I feel that no one would give me the necessary advice and assistance than your good self. I shall limit the scope to books published during the last twenty-five years（1920-1954）. As the □□□□□□□□□□□ are so numerous, I have to do the work at a later date, although I fully realize that they are more important than books.
As Italian literature on China is very important, I would like to make the list as complete as possible. Since the collection of such literature in British and American libraries is very poor, may I seek your expert assistance in this matter?
I have already written the titles of these books on cards with as much as bibliographical information as I can gather. If you would be good enough to look over these cards and supply the missing titles, I shall be glad to send the cards to you. With them, it would save you a great deal of time.
I have great admiration for your scientific work, and I know you would be willing to help me out if you could spare some time for it. Will you kindly let me hear from you?
So far, I have not seen volume 4 of your monumental work on Ricci and I have been wondering whether it has been published. If the Libreria dello Stato is in need of financial assistance in publishing the forthcoming volumes, may I suggest that you apply for a grant from one of the American cultural institutions? It may not bring immediate results, but it is worth trying. I have in mind the Harvard-Yenching Institute which has much money but is planning to spend it in India, since China is now closed for the time being. Could you let me know how many more volumes are being planned?
I trust that you are enjoying excellent health and I wish to send my sincere greetings of the Season,
Yours sincerely,
T. L. Yuan
〔University of Chicago Library, Yuan T'ung-li Papers, Box 3〕
宋黎明《利玛窦研究资料汇释梳理》，《文汇报》，2017年12月29日。
按：your monumental work on Ricci应指《天主教入华史》（Storia dell'introduzione del Cristianesimo in Cina, Roma: Libreria dello Stato, 1942-1949），该书的最初名称实为《利玛窦资料：有关利玛窦以及欧洲与中国早期关系的原始文件（1579-1615）》（Fonti Ricciane: documenti originali concernenti Matteo Ricci e la storia delle prime relazioni tra l'Europa e la Cina，1579-1615）。
Libreria dello Stato即意大利国家图书馆。此件为录副。
十二月十四日
先生致信赵元任、杨步伟夫妇，寄上礼物，并告知在英暂住地。
元任先生、夫人：
日子过的真快，眼看两位就要返美，想收拾行李一定很忙。日前我们寄些小礼物，并有一件毛衣送给Kanta，望携回转交。如需要任何英国物品并盼示知，以便寄至船上。我们近在此觅到一所临时Flat13 Portland Road, Oxford，较住旅馆便宜的多，大约在离此前不致再迁移了。此间天天下雨，但天气并不太冷，想巴黎天气不致如此之坏。子杰兄在名师指导之下，成绩定必大有进步。他的小孩谅已返法，一定非常热闹。你们多位小姐，想常有信来，谅均安好为念。专此，敬候俪安。
同礼、慧熙拜上
十二，十四
〔University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library, Yuen Ren Chao papers, carton 10, folder 39, Yuan, Tongli and Yuan, Huixi〕
按：“Kanta”应为Canta，即赵元任的外孙女卞昭波，其母为赵元任大女儿赵如兰，父亲是卞学鐄。“他的小孩”应指郭成吉。
德礼贤神父覆函先生，略谈《天主教入华史》第四卷尚未完成的原因，并请协助获取国会图书馆的中文资料，表示愿意竭尽所能协助先生编撰意大利文有关中国的书籍目录。
December, 14th, 1954
Dear Dr. Yuan:
It was a great and pleasing surprise to receive your letter of December the 8th. Many thanks for it.
For a long time I had been wondering about your whereabouts, and at the end I got news from one of my friends in the United States that you were working in the Library of Congress and that you were busy in continuing the Bibliotheca Sinica of Cordier. I then sent you, somewhere in June or this year, some recent reprints of my articles. But as I did not hear from you, I wondered where they had finally gone. Then in September I wrote a letter to your address in Cambridge, Mass. in America. But again, no answer. This will explain why your recent letter was received, as I said, with pleasing surprise.
Volume IV of my work on Ricci has not come out. One of the main reasons is the lack of practical assistance in making researches in Chinese books, which are not available here in Rome. For the preceding volumes, you helped me very much, while you were in Peking. Since you left there, although I tried it was not possible for me to get in touch with the new men of the Central Library. Now that you are working at the Library of Congress, would it not be possible to find some help of the same kind among those who are working under your leadership? This surely would be very much appreciated by me and would make the issue of the coming volumes possible. Please let me hear from you about this special query. With the recent inventions of films, this kind of research work might be easier than formerly.
Several other volumes should come out; how many will I be able to prepare myself I don't dare to say; the more, the better.
Financial assistance also is needed, and I thank you for your suggestion. If you have practical suggestions to make, giving names and addresses, I would appreciate them very much. Chinese publications with Chinese characters in Europe are very expensive and unless some cultural Institutions helps the authors, they cannot see their works published.
As I owe so much to you, I am willing to help you, as much as I can, for the revision of your cards. Are you not coming to Rome before you go back to America? If so, we may talk about the matter, when you come here. If you come, much help might be given to you perhaps from the catalogue of the Vatican Library and other Libraries. If not, the thing might be more difficult. But as I said I will do as much as I can. The only difficulty is time, as I am alone without any assistant. Besides lectures here in the Gregorian University and in the Roman State University I have other works, especially on Ricci, by the hands. Anyhow when what has to be done will be clearly settled, we may talk again about it.
I thank you very much for your kind greetings I am glad to return you a hundredfold,
yours very sincerely
Prof. Pasquale D'Elia
〔袁同礼家人提供〕
按：此件为打字稿，落款处为其签名。
十二月十八日
先生致信钱存训，略述最近在欧洲考察经过，并请协助核对近年来发表著述之中国学者信息。
公垂吾兄著席：
近三月来在大陆旅行，疲倦不堪，故未能早日函达，想尊处正写论文，亦必甚忙。前年长沙发掘结果曾发现古文字，于书史颇有关系，前曾建议由尊处函徐森老索取资料，不知已有复音否？牛津有一位G. Bownas近研究“竹书纪年”，对此问题亦有兴趣也。九月间曾寄上书一套四册，托为代售，想已脱手。近见国内外我国学者著作多种，内中大部分之中文姓名均已查出，仅有一小部分尚待查明（芝大如有中国同学录，并望代搜集一份）。兹奉上一单，请就所知者加注中文，其不详者能否在各工具书中代为一查。日人桥川时雄所编《中国时人姓名录》及日外务部所编之《人名录》，此间均未入藏，极感不便。如尊处无法查明，即希将原单转寄吴子明兄处，托其代查。弟大约两月以内可以返美，统俟再函。最近始由荷兰返英，行装尚未整理也。顺颂近安，并贺年禧。
弟同礼顿首
十二月十八日
〔钱孝文藏札〕
按：G. Bownas即Geoffrey Bownas（1923-2011），1954年在牛津大学任日语讲师。
十二月二十一日
先生致信霍福民，转告中国新书出版消息，并请告Nachrichten全称以便订购。
December 21, 1954
Dear Dr. Hoffmann:
When I was at your house in October, you inquired about new publications on issued in China. I have just seen a notice about a scholarly publication which I wish to pass on to you. The full title is as follow:
I hope to write to Dr. Seuberlich in a day or two and I shall give more titles of recent scholarly works which you should have at Marburg. If you need any current material for your research, please do let me know. I shall be only too glad to be of some service to you.
When in Marburg, you showed me a publication “Nachrichten” der……which is a report on the progress of Far Eastern studies in Germany. You had an extra copy of one of the issues and you were kind enough to let me have it, but in a hurry, I forgot to being it along. Will you let me know the full name and where I can send my subscription? I had the impression that it is published in Hamburg.
Have you published any additional books since I had the pleasure of seeing you? If you could keep me informed about your writings, I shall be grateful.
We expect to return to the United States in February. Mrs. Yuan joins me in sending you our very best wishes for a Merry Christmas and happy New Year,
Yours sincerely,
〔University of Chicago Library, Yuan T'ung-li Papers, Box 4〕
按：此件为底稿，空行处付诸阙如。
先生致信Luís Gonzaga Gomes，询问Vocabulario Português-Cantonense出版社及其所有著作的清单，并请其协助编纂澳门Imprensa Nacional出版目录。
December 21, 1954
Dear Dr. Gomes:
When I lived in Hong Kong, I saw your very useful Portuguese-Cantonese dictionary. But I forgot the name of the publisher. Will you be kind enough to inform me, as this dictionary is not found in the library at Oxford.
I understand that your translation of the Ou Mun Kei Leok had been published. As I am compiling a list of scholarly works on Macau, I should like to include all of your writings. Will you kindly inform me the titles of your other books besides these two? I shall greatly appreciate your assistance.
May I ask you to let me know your name in Chinese? Also, the names of other scholars in Macau who have written books on Macau and the Portuguese in China. Although I have not met Mr. Braga, I know his writings and his interest in the history of Macau.
Since the Imprensa Nacional at Macau does not have a list of their publications, I wonder whether you would like to compile one which would be extremely useful for future reference.
Another matter which I like to inquire is whether there is a good library in Macau where one can find all the books on Macau published both in Macau and Lisbon. I am most anxious to get such a list and I should like to have assistance such from a scholar as yourself.
Thanking you once more for your courtesy and assistance,
Yours sincerely,
T. L. Yuan
P. S. Could you inform me how many issues of the “Noticias de Macau” have been published and on what date was the first issue published?
〔University of Chicago Library, Yuan T'ung-li Papers, Box 2〕
按：Luís Gonzaga Gomes（1907-1976），澳门土生葡萄牙人，汉学家，中文名高美士。Portuguese-Cantonese dictionary应指Vocabulário Português-Cantonense（《葡粤辞典》），1941年Imprensa Nacional初版；Ou Mun Kei Leok即其用葡萄牙文翻译的《澳门纪略》，原书由清代澳门海防军民同知印光任、张汝霖编撰，1751年成书，葡译本于1950年Imprensa Nacional初版。Imprensa Nacional at Macau通译作澳门官印局；Noticias de Macau直译为《澳门新闻》，其出版情况待考。
吴光清覆函先生，告国会图书馆东方部尚未任命主任，并谈严文郁应林语堂之邀，计划前往新加坡协助筹办南洋大学。
守和吾兄大鉴：
接奉手示，藉悉旅况多佳，至以为慰。东方部主任至今尚未任命，仍由Poleman等轮流代理，据闻请求该位置者达四十余人（Poleman为其一），因节省经费暂缓发表。关于尊处洛氏补助费留难者实非Poleman，而系由Dubester作祟（彼新任Bib. & Ref. Div.主任及出版委员会主席，所有关于目录及出版事宜均由其主管，王重民之目录当然在内），此人小人得志，颇难谈话。过去接洽函件彼处存有一份，因而留难，曾用电话解释数次无效。所致函尊处仅由Poleman出名，实际上与彼无关也。Beal已去远东现在日本，约明春方返。彼曾表示愿放弃日本部分改就中文部，将来或由彼兼两部分。馆事仍纷繁，所余ECA马、王二人可延至五六月底。此Program结束时，严文郁已应林语堂邀，在U. N.告假一年，至南洋筹备南洋大学图书馆，年初首途（一人前往，家眷留美）。附来书单已查过，兹附还。前寄书一包，已收到，现存敝处。美京一切如常，颇为沉寂。匆匆，顺祝年禧，并祝双安。
弟光清上
十二月廿一
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Richard C. Howard，In Memoriam：Edwin G. Beal，Jr.（1913-2002），Journal of East Asian Libraries, Vol 2003, No. 130, p. 70.
按：Beal即Edwin G. Beal, Jr.（1913-2002），1933年获卫斯理大学学士学位，后赴日教授英文，随即在朝鲜半岛和中国东北、北平等地游历，曾在燕京大学西文系任教，1938年归国入哥伦比亚大学，1941年获东亚系硕士学位，旋即入国会图书馆服务，太平洋战争爆发后被任命为日文部负责人，1950年获得哥伦比亚大学博士学位
，1955年至1958年兼任中文部、日文部负责人，1974年退休，本谱中依李霖灿等人译作“毕尔”。“马、王二人”似指马在天、王隐三。
十二月二十二日
先生致信Robert Hans van Gulik，以未能在海牙相见表示歉意，寄上蒋彝《金宝与花熊》与其子女，并询问其在日本刊行的小说或房中术译著。
December 22, 1954
Dear Dr. Gulik:
I was very sorry to have missed you and Mrs. Gulik when we were in the Hague on two Sundays. Dr. Hsu Mo told me that you were usually not home on Sundays and I regret that I did not write to you a few days earlier.
Learning that all you children read Dutch fluently, I am sending you a copy of Chiang Yee's Chin-Pao, en de reuzenpanda's It may be of some interest to your children.
I hear that you have published quite a bit since we met in Chungking. If the novel in Chinese published in Singapore is still available, I should like to have a copy. Besides the Trifling tale of a Spring Dream and the Erotic Color Prints of the Ming Period, both of which I saw in the Library of Congress, what other books you published in Japan?
We are here in England for a short stay and we plan to leave for the United States early in February. Mrs. Yuan joins me in sending you and Mrs. Gulik our sincere greetings for a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Yours sincerely,
T. L. Yuan
〔University of Chicago Library, Yuan T'ung-li Papers, Box 3〕
按：Robert Hans van Gulik（1910-1967），荷兰汉学家、小说家、外交官，中文名高罗佩，其夫人为水世芳（1912-2005），祖籍江苏阜宁，出生于北平，父亲水钧韶是外交官，她与高罗佩共有四位子女。Dr. Hsu Mo即徐谟，时任联合国国际法庭法官，常驻海牙。Chiang Yee's Chin-Pao, en de reuzenpanda's即蒋彝绘著《金宝与花熊》荷兰文本，该书原为英文（Chin-Pao and the Giant Pandas），1939年在伦敦初版，1954年在阿姆斯特丹出版荷兰文本。Trifling Tale of a Spring Dream即《春梦琐言》、Erotic Color Prints of the Ming Period即《秘戏图考》，分别于1950年、1951年在日本限量刊行，除此两种外，还有Dee Goong An, three murder cases solved by Judge Dee（《狄公案》）也是在日本印行。此件为录副。
十二月二十五日
先生致信Walther Heissig，告已致信北京友人询问嵩祝寺所存清雍正年间官刻汉字《大藏经》之雕版下落，并请其寄送著作目录。
December 25, 1954
Dear Dr. Heissig:
You may recall that at the Orientalists Congress you inquired about the wooden blocks preserved at the Sung Chu Ss'u. I wrote to my friends in Peking, but so far, no reply has been received. Eventually I hope to break through the bamboo curtain, so that definite word can be obtained.
I am trying to compile a list of German scholarly works in the field of sinological studies. Just the other day I saw one of your articles printed in the Serta Cantabrigiensia which would have escaped my attention if I did not see that journal. Since your articles are scattered in so many journals, I wonder if you could send me a fairly complete list of your writings. I shall also appreciate your courtesy if you could send the reprints of your articles, if you have no time to compile a list.
I have wanted to come to Göttingen to pay you a visit, but as my British visa expires very soon, I have to return to the United States early in February. I do hope to hear from you before I leave.
With best wishes for a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year,
Yours sincerely,
T. L. Yuan
〔University of Chicago Library, Yuan T'ung-li Papers, Box 4〕
按：Walther Heissig（1913-2005），奥地利汉学家，中文名海西希，专攻蒙古学，1941年在维也纳获得博士学位，后来华在辅仁大学任教并赴内蒙古考察，时在哥廷根大学任教，1957年则转往波恩。Sung Chu Ss'u即嵩祝寺，藏传佛教格鲁派寺院，清康熙五十一年（1712）敕令修建。雍正十一年（1733），清朝惟一官刻汉字《大藏经》开刻，历时6年完成，其后刻板存放于该寺，该寺在庚子事变时遭受劫掠。此件为录副。
戴密微覆函先生，告因接待中国知识界女性代表团而得知陈寅恪、王重民、顾颉刚、高名凯等人近况，并询问何处可以购得《图书季刊》英文本四十年代的各卷期。
Christmas, 1954
Dear Dr. Yuan:
Many thanks for your letter and for the beautiful plates on patterned silk. It was a pleasure to see you in our old Paris and to hear about the great work you have undertaken. Dr. Y. R. Chao has succeeded you here; I read with much interest the autobiography of his wife with all the recollections concerning many people whom I knew or read. Tempi passata!
You forgot to list the recent works of Prof. Ch'en Yin-ch'üe at the end of your letter, but many thanks for having written about them to Hongkong. Recently we received officially a delegation of Chinese ladies from Peking belonging to university circles. They told me that Prof. Ch'en is still at Chung-shan Ta-hsüh in Canton, not in Peking. They said that my old friend Wang Chung-min is all right. Ku Chieh-kang is back in Peking, running a book-shop if I understood right. Kao Ming-k'ai the linguist, who worked with me here, is busy translating the complete works of Balzac.
Herewith a list of my publications, certainly incomplete.
Wishing you a happy New Year and all success in your great work, I remain,
Very sincerely yours,
P. Demiéville
Is there a possibility to get somewhere the numbers of your Quarterly Bulletin of Chinese Bibliography（Chinese edition before all）published since 1940?
〔University of Chicago Library, Yuan T'ung-li Papers, Box 3〕
按：he autobiography of his wife应指杨步伟所作《一个女人的自传》。
十二月二十九日 牛津
先生撰写Supplement to Cordier's Bibliotheca Sinica Progress Report，包括Completion of Part 1, Section 1、Scope Enlarged、Some of the Difficulties、Further Support Necessary四部分。〔袁同礼家人提供〕