Part 10 (2/2)
”If you have a chance”: ibid., October 26, 1908.
”Things might have fared a great deal worse”: Bodleian, Stein MS 37, Stein to Andrews, November 14, 1908.
On Stein's health in India: Annabel Walker, Aurel Stein: Pioneer of the Silk Road, p 187.
”May kindly divinities protect them”: Bodleian, Stein MS 5, Stein to Allen, December 17, 1908.
CHAPTER 13: YESTERDAY, HAVING DRUNK TOO MUCH Drunk . . .
”the value of a domestic slave”: Lionel Giles, Six Centuries at Tunhuang, p 36.
”Chief of the hundred plants”: ibid., p 28.
”Yesterday, having drunk too much”: ibid., pp 3334.
”Yesterday, Sir, while in your cups”: ibid., p 34.
”Even if Heaven and Earth collapse”: Lionel Giles, ”Dated Chinese Ma.n.u.scripts in the Stein Collection,” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, vol 11, no 1 (1943), p 160.
”What had this neat, almost calligraphic ma.n.u.script”: Aurel Stein, Ruins of Desert Cathay, vol 2, p 187.
”Jesus the Buddha”: Tsui Chi (translator), ”The Lower (Second?) Section of the Manichean Hymns,” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, vol 11, no 1 (1943), pp 174219.
”Nestorian Christians could safely address their prayers to”: Bodleian, Stein MS 91, Stein to von Le Coq, March 14, 1926.
”Iron snakes belched fire”: Victor H. Mair, Tun-huang Popular Narratives, pp 8788.
Extensive work on the Dunhuang medical ma.n.u.scripts has been undertaken by w.a.n.g Shumin. See idp.bl.uk/4DCGI/education/ medicine_society/abstracts.a4d.
On the importance of almanacs: Susan Whitfield and Ursula Sims-Williams, The Silk Road: Travel, trade, war and faith, p 82. See also: Susan Whitfield, ”Under the Censor's Eye: Printed Almanacs and Censors.h.i.+p in Ninth-Century China,” British Library Journal, vol 24, part 1, 1998, pp 422.
On the Dunhuang star chart: Jean-Marc Bonnet-Bidaud, Franoise Praderie and Susan Whitfield, ”The Dunhuang Chinese Sky: A Comprehensive Study of the Oldest Known Star Atlas,” Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, vol 12, no 1 (March 2009), pp 3959.
On the painted silk banner retrieved by Paul Pelliot: Joseph Needham, Science and Civilisation in China, vol 5, part 7, pp 22223.
On paper flowers: Susan Whitfield and Ursula Sims-Williams, The Silk Road: Travel, trade, war and faith, p 268.
CHAPTER 14: STORMY DEBUT.
”I am afraid you will find”: Jeannette Mirsky, Sir Aurel Stein: Archaeological explorer, p 87.
”In the course of my explorations”: British Museum archives, CE 32/23/23/2, Stein letter, May 20, 1909.
”The cellar has been made”: Bodleian, Stein MS 37, Andrews to Stein, August 11, 1909.
”He has true British terrier blood”: ”Dog Explorer: Adventures of a Fox Terrier,” Daily Mail, May 26, 1909.
The story of Stein's camp chair: George Macartney, ”Explorations in Central Asia, 19068-Discussion,” The Geographical Journal, vol 34, no 3 (September 1909), p 265.
For more on Florence Lorimer, see Helen w.a.n.g's article ”Stein's Recording Angel-Miss F.M.G. Lorimer,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, series 3, 8, 2 (1998), pp 207228.
For more on the ma.n.u.scripts sent to Pelliot in Paris, see Frances Wood's article ”A Tentative Listing of the Stein Ma.n.u.scripts in Paris 19111919.” In Sir Aurel Stein, Colleagues and Collections. British Museum Research Publication Number 184, 2012. /pdf/12_Wood%20(Tentative%20listiing).pdf.
”extravagant multiplication of limbs”: Festival of Empire, 1911, Guide Book and Catalogue, Bemrose & Sons, London, 1911, p 17.
”epoch-making importance”: ”Buddhist Paintings at the Festival of Empire,” The Times, September 7, 1911.
”Greatly delighted was I”: Aurel Stein, Ruins of Desert Cathay, vol 2, p 189.
Stein captions his photograph: ”Roll of block-printed Buddhist text with frontispiece from wood-engraving, dated 864AD.” Elsewhere he refers to the scroll with ”a date of production corresponding to 860AD.” See Ruins of Desert Cathay, vol 2, fig 191 and p 189.
”Late last night”: Bodleian, Stein MS 8, Stein to Allen, June 17, 1912.
”Many congratulations”: Bodleian, Stein MS 12, Allen to Stein, June 1912.
”I cannot express on paper”: Bodleian, Stein MS 96, Chiang to Stein, July 30, 1912.
”Mr. Macartney has been kind to me”: ibid.
”Deaf as he is”: Bodleian, Stein MS 96, Macartney to Stein, October 14, 1912.
”Chiang-ssu-yeh can't quite make up his mind”: Bodleian, Stein MS 41, Macartney to Stein, February 12, 1913.
”Ma.s.sacres of Chinese officials”: Bodleian, Stein MS 96, Macartney to Stein, May 24, 1912.
”Finally there is the substantial printed roll”: British Library archives, Or 13114, ”Correspondence with M. Pelliot regarding Chinese doc.u.ments,” October 2, 1912. This information courtesy of Dr. Frances Wood.
”The more I see of this glorious land”: Bodleian, Stein MS 40, Stein to Andrews, May 6, 1912.
”In a way I am sorry”: Bodleian, Stein MS 42, Stein to Andrews, June 29, 1913.
”the Queen wore a hat”: ”The King and the Museum,” The Times, May 8, 1914, p 4.
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