George Ernest Morrison correspondence with the Royal Society of Arts, London, 1915

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1915

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George Ernest Morrison, 1862-1920, was an Australian doctor of medicine, traveller and journalist, who became the resident correspondent of The Times at Peking in 1897 and political adviser to the President of China (Yuan Shih-k'ai), 1912-1920. During his life he amassed a remarkable library of Western language works on China, comprising over 20,000 volumes, maps and pamphlets. The collection is now held by the Institute of Oriental Culture at the University of Tokyo.

A letter written to the Editor of the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts from G. E. Morrison, stating his endeavour to form a collection of books and papers for a Chinese national collection and requesting a list of papers dealing with Asia, 23 February 1915

An undated, unsigned draft reply to Morrison's letter of 23 February 1915, probably from G. K. Menzies, with a list of papers dealing with Asia read at the Ordinary meetings of the Society,

A letter to G. K. Menzies of the RSA from G. E. Morrison, in reply to one received thanking him for offering to furnish him with papers read before the Society, and requesting further papers

A letter to an unnamed Royal Society of Arts correspondent from G. E. Morrison about the establishment of a Chinese national collection of books thanking him for the copies of the Society's journals

Morrison's calling card

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