一九二七年 三十三岁
三十三岁
一月二十六日
爱国中学假南长街袁宅召开第八次董事会,燕树棠、先生、谢循初、邱椿等七人出席,议决该校现校址过于偏远,拟于寒假期间迁移,以便学生就学。此外,讨论经费、招生问题。〔《晨报》,1927年1月28日,第6版〕
北京市档案馆,“京师警察厅函询佛化、美术函授学校、爱国中学、育贤法文学校春明公学申请备案及京华美术学校迁校申请备案给京师学务局函以及京师学务局复函”,档号J004-002-00398。
按:爱国中学,原址似在宗帽胡同十四号,
拟迁往北新华街小六部口。燕树棠(1891-1984),字召亭,河北定县人,法学家,早年毕业于北洋大学法科,后通过清华学校考试赴美,先后获哥伦比亚大学法学硕士、耶鲁大学法学博士,1921年归国,历任北京大学、武汉大学法学系教授、主任等职。
二月一日
米来牟致函先生,为成立国际图书馆委员会征询中国图书馆界人士意见。
February 1, 1927
Mr. T. L. Yuan, Chairman
Dear Sir:
Fifty-seven delegates, representing twenty-three foreign countries, attended the Fiftieth Anniversary conference of American Library Association in Atlantic City, New York, in October, 1926.
Although this was not an international library congress there was much discussion of international library cooperation at the general sessions, in private conversation and in two informal meetings.
I am enclosing a mimeographed report of the two informal meetings. At the second one, which was held at the end of a two weeks'tour, the following resolution was adopted:
The delegates of thirteen different countries who have taken part in the after-conference excursion of the American Library Association and who are desirous to see continued the spirit and the lines of international cooperation thoroughly experienced and discussed during these fourteen days, unanimously recommend to the A. L. A. the following action:
That the American Library Association may take the initiative in this direction and submit to the different national organizations the proposal to discuss the forming of an International Library Committee with the prospect that such discussion may be so far advanced at the time of the Edinburgh meeting of next year that definite action then may be taken by authorized representatives of the different national organizations.
It was understood that the A. L. A., in transmitting this resolution, should call attention to the fact that those who adopted it were not prepared to say to what extent international library cooperation can be brought about through existing or proposed organizations and bureaus.
They did not express an opinion as to whether a new organization is necessary.
A summary of suggestions for international library cooperation, made during the American Library Conference and post-conference in 1926, will be found at the beginning of the mimeographed document.
In pursuance of the expressed wish of the delegates from abroad we invite you to send to us your constructive suggestions for international library cooperation. We shall welcome your personal opinions and the opinions officially expressed by the Association which your represent.
All suggestions received before the end of April will be presented to the A. L. A. Committee on International Relations which will undertake to prepare a summary for distribution to officers of library associations throughout the world and to others interested.
On behalf of my colleagues in America I send cordial greetings to you and your colleagues in China.
Very sincerely yours
Carl H. Milam
Secretary
〔《中华图书馆协会会报》第2卷第4期,1927年2月28日,页20-21〕
二月十八日
先生致信李俨,谈寄赠《中华图书馆协会会报》、借阅《杨辉算法》校对事。原信如下:
乐知先生大鉴:
一月廿六日手示敬悉。协会会报第一卷各期均已发罄,现自第二卷第一期起寄赠。《杨辉算法》日人钞本如能寄下,与杨守敬藏本校对,殊为省便。四库本各书由敝处派人代钞,亦无不可,惟款式纸张是否须与四库本相同,亦望示及为荷。专此奉覆,顺候时绥。
弟袁同礼谨启
一九二七二月十八日
〔中华图书馆协会用笺。中国科学院自然科学史研究所图书馆藏札〕
按:李俨(1892-1963),字乐知,福建闽侯人,数学史家,时应供职于陇海铁路局。《杨辉算法》是宋代数学家杨辉三种著作的总称,分别为《乘除通变算宝》《田亩比类乘除捷法》《续古摘奇算法》。“日人钞本”即1916年间李俨委托日本学者三上义夫抄录的关孝和本。此信为文书代笔。
二月二十五日
先生致信欧美各图书馆协会,告知中华图书馆协会即将迁至北京图书馆内办公。
Feb. 25, 1927.
After March 1, 1927, the Headquarters of the Library Association of China will be removed to the Metropolitan Library, Pei Hai Park, Peking.
T. L. Yuan
Chairman
Executive Board
〔中华图书馆协会英文信纸。Librarian of Congress, Putnam Archives, Special File, China: Library Association〕
按:该信于4月16日送到国会图书馆秘书处。
二月二十八日
《中华图书馆协会会报》刊登先生与刘国钧合撰文章,题为《〈永乐大典〉现存卷数续目》。〔《中华图书馆协会会报》第2卷第4期,页9-13〕
三月二日
先生致信斯文·赫定,询问是否如前言赠予北京图书馆有关楼兰的著作。
March 2, 1927
Dr. Sven Hedin,
Hotel des Wagons-Lits,
Peking.
My dear Dr. Hedin:
Some-time ago you were good enough to say that you were going to have a copy of your work on Lou-lan presented to the Metropolitan Library.
Should it be convenient to you, we shall be glad to send for it by our messenger. Our telephone is East 224, and you may call us up anytime.
Yours faithfully,
T. L. Yuan
Librarian
〔北京图书馆英文信纸。韩琦教授提供〕
按:your work on Lou-lan似指Die Chinesischen Handschriften-und Sonstigen Kleinfunde Sven Hedins in Lou-lan,1920年斯德哥尔摩出版,通译作《斯文·赫定楼兰所获汉文文书和零星文物》。此件为打字稿,先生略加修改,落款处为先生签名。
三月八日
先生致信斯文·赫定,希望其捐赠更多有关中亚、西域地区考古的专著给北京图书馆。
March 8, 1927
Dear Dr. Hedin:
Many thanks for your kind letter of the second instant.
We have already got in our Library your work on Southern Tibet which was presented to us by the Crown Prince last fall.
We would like very much to get the other work you mentioned: Eine Routenaufnahme durch Ostpersien. If you will be good enough to secure a copy for us, it will be most gratefully received.
With renewed thanks for your interest,
Yours sincerely,
T. L. Yuan
Librarian.
〔北京图书馆英文信纸。韩琦教授提供〕
按:Southern Tibet应指Southern Tibet: discoveries in former times compared with my own researches in 1906-1908,通常译为《1906年至1908年西藏南部科学考察报告》,共9卷,1917至1922年间出版。Crown Prince即古斯塔夫六世·阿道夫(Gustaf VI Adolf, 1882-1973),瑞典王储、国王,业余考古学家,对中国艺术持有浓厚兴趣,1926年曾访问北京、山西、上海等地。Eine Routenaufnahme durch Ostpersien,共3卷,记述了1905年赫定对波斯卡维尔盐漠的探险,1918年至1927年斯德哥尔摩出版。此件为打字稿,落款处为先生签名。
三月十日
先生致信李俨,告知故宫博物院藏《杨辉算法》版本及旧藏源流,并请赐稿与《图书馆学季刊》。
乐知先生:
宋《杨辉算法》五卷二本系朝鲜翻明勤德堂本,现藏清宫,为杨守敬故物,如尊处愿影钞一部或能办到,望便中示知。又北大图书馆前已将算书寄奉,大稿如已告竣,尚希寄交南京金陵大学刘衡如先生,以便在二卷一号季刊发表,至为感祷。专此,敬候著祺。
弟袁同礼顿首
一九二七,三,十
〔中华图书馆协会用笺。中国科学院自然科学史研究所图书馆藏札〕
按:“大稿”似指《明清之际西算输入中国年表》,刊《图书馆学季刊》第2卷第1期(页21-53)。
三月十七日
先生致信李俨,转告影钞四库本《乾坤体义》价目。
乐知先生大鉴:
日人钞本《杨辉算法》三本,昨已接到,业送故宫与杨氏藏本对校。影钞四库本《乾坤体义》一书,兹得管理人所开价单一纸与四库款式俱同,特以奉上,如合尊意,即祈示知,以便照办为荷。此上,顺候台祺。
弟袁同礼顿首
三月十七日
〔北京图书馆用笺。中国科学院自然科学史研究所图书馆藏札〕
按:《乾坤体义》为利玛窦著,介绍地球和天体构造和几何学原理。此信为文书代笔,落款处为先生签名。
三月十九日
钢和泰签赠《大宝积经迦叶品梵藏汉六种合刊》一册与先生。〔https://www.douban.com/note/837974170〕
是年春
钢和泰致函先生,告知已将《大宝积经迦叶品梵藏汉六种合刊》赠书寄赠学者、机构,并请协助寄送中国、德国、日本等国学者。
Dear Professor Yuan,
I am very much obliged to you for the tickets. I have not used them yet, but I shall do so before long in order to consult what remains of the Tibetan Kanjur owned by the Palace Museum.
I have distributed most of the sixty copies of the commentary which I received from the Commercial Press. Among the persons and institutions which must by now have received these copies of the books are the following: Prof. Thomas(Oxford),Prof. Konow(Oslo),Prof. Karlgren(Göteborg),Prof. Morgenstierne(Göteborg),Prof. Lüders(Berlin),the Royal Asiatic Society(London),Prof. de la Vallée Poussin(Brussels),Prof. Waldschmidt(Berlin),Prof. Tucci(Rome),Prof. Demiéville(Paris),Prof. Vogel(Leiden),Prof. Rahder(Leiden),Prof. Przyluski(Paris),Prof. Bacot(Paris),Prof. Lévi(Paris),Prof. Lessing(Berlin),Prof. Weller(Leipzig),Prof. Haenisch(Berlin),The École Française d'Extrême-Orient(Hanoi),Prof. Blake(Harvard),Mr. Ware(Harvard),Prof. Chase(Harvard),Prof. Clark(Harvard),Prof. Woods(Harvard),Mr. Hackin(Paris),Prof. Simon(Berlin),Prof. V. Glasenapp(Königsberg),Prof. Porter(Yenching),Mr. Martin Fischer(German Leg. Peking),Prof. Pelliot(Paris),the Société Asiatique(Paris),and Sir Edward Denison Ross(School of Oriental Studies, London).
I shall be very grateful if you will send copies to President Stuart(Yenching),Professor William Hung(Yenching),the American Council of Learned Societies, Mr. Lodge(Freer Gallery Washington, D. C.),Professor Edgerton(Yale),Professor Williams Jackson(Columbia),the Asiatic Museum(Academy of Sciences, Leningrad),Prof. Fu Ssu Nien, the Library of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft(Halle, Germany),the President of Santiniketan University(Bengal, India),the President of the Asiatic Society of Bengal(Calcutta),Professor Takakusu(Imp. Univ. Tokyo),Prof. Haneda(Imp. Univ. Kyoto)and Prof. Wogihara(Taisho University, Tokyo).
〔邹新明编《美国哈佛大学哈佛燕京图书馆藏钢和泰未刊往来书信集》下册,桂林:广西师范大学出版社、北京:北京大学出版社,2016年,页531-532〕
王启龙编著《钢和泰学术年谱简编》,北京:中华书局,页70-72。
按:1926年9月18日,王云五致信钢和泰,表示商务印书馆将在合同约定外奉赠《大宝积经迦叶品梵藏汉六种合刊》六十本,以表示对其耐心协助的特别感谢。该年12月15日,王云五再次致信钢和泰,告知此书即将正式出版,并寄赠一本样书。
基于以上信息,笔者认为此信大约在1927年春季所写。此件为底稿。
四月二十八日
先生致信李俨,告知北京大学图书馆藏《古今律历考》暂无法借出远寄。
乐知先生大鉴:
本月二十二日曾上一函,谅已达览。《古今律历考》一书,北大以其为明刊善本,颇不欲于此时间远借,如拟摘钞数篇或可代办,校毕之《杨辉算法》仍因邮路不通未能发出,特再奉达,即希鉴察是荷。专此,顺颂时绥。
袁同礼谨启
十六年四月廿八日
〔北京图书馆用笺。中国科学院自然科学史研究所图书馆藏札〕
按:《古今律历考》,明邢云路著,研究古代文献中所记载的历法知识。该信为文书代笔。
五月十四日
先生与袁慧熙女士订婚。〔《范源廉集》,页438〕
《传记文学》,第14卷第4期,页33。
按:袁慧熙(1902年4月3日—1991年1月16日),祖父为清末名臣袁昶,外公为沈惟贤
,其父袁道冲本拟邀范源廉持柯。
五月二十一日
下午三时,先生与袁慧熙女士婚礼在南河沿欧美同学会举行,来宾甚多,约五时礼毕。〔《吴宓日记》第3册,页341;《晨报副刊·星期画报》第90号,1927年7月3日〕
按:证婚人颜惠庆,介绍人汪大燮、梁漱溟,主婚人王锡炽,奏乐杨仲子、刘天华。
五月三十日
国际联盟智育合作国际协进社(International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation)科学联合部致函先生,寄上国际联盟图书馆专家委员会决议案并征询意见。
30, May, 1927
Dear Sir
At its session of July 29th 1926, the Committee on Intellectual Cooperation decided to call a meeting of the expert librarians of it Sub-Committee for Bibliography, to discuss the results of the investigation conducted by the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation on the coordination of libraries and research centers.
The following experts attended this meeting:
Dr. Cowley, Librarian of the Bodleian Library, who presided the meeting.
Dr. Dawson Johnston, European Representative of the Library of Congress.
M. Godet, Director of the National Swiss Library,
Dr. Krüss, Director general of the Prussian State Library,
M. Roland Marcel, Administrator general of the French National Library.
Mr. Bishop, President of the Committee for Foreign Relations of the American Library Association.
M. Oprescu, Secretary of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation.
De Vos van Steenwijk, Head of the Section for Scientific Relations of the International Institute, Secretary.
According to the wish expressed by the experts, I am communicating to you the resolutions that were passed. It should be noted, however, that these resolutions are still to be endorsed by the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation at its next session in July.
The Congress of Librarians to be held in Edinburgh will, I hope, offer an opportunity to discuss this matter more fully.
Your very truly
J. E. de Vos van Steenwijk
Head of the Scientific Relations Section
Mr. T. L. Yuan
〔《中华图书馆协会会报》第3卷第1期,1927年8月31日,页16〕
六月初
先生东渡日本,调查日本藏《永乐大典》情况,先后得见二十七册,并撰文。
按:先生与夫人同行,亦为蜜月之旅。
六月上旬 东京
先生访问日本内阁文库,先询问《内阁文库第二部汉籍目录》之“第二部”所指,负责人员樋口龙太郎解释“第一部”是指日本书目。随后,先生在其带领下观看了《石钟山记》《后山诗注》《忠义水浒传》等,以及存放洋书的贵重书室、荷兰书安正年刊的辞典,还有西博尔德(Philipp Franz von Siebold)的旅行记等。其中,先生着重翻阅的古籍有高似孙《史略》(明版)、《子略》(明版)和《三国志详节》(宋版)。〔樋口生《北京图书馆主任袁守和氏と会谈の记》,《图书馆杂志》第93号,1927年8月,页248-249〕
六月中旬 北京
吴瀛和江庸在东兴楼设宴,欲与故宫博物院维持会中的北京大学教授谈薪酬事。先生与陈垣、马衡、李宗侗等人赴宴,席间北京大学教授与吴瀛、江庸多有责难。〔《故宫尘梦录》,页130〕
按:故宫维持会无多资金,只能依赖借款和门票收入维系,本年端午节(6月4日)后并无实质好转,几引发罢工。
六月二十九日
中基会第三次年会在天津召开,批准梁启超、李四光辞去北京图书馆正副馆长的请求,任命范源廉为馆长,先生升任副馆长。〔《中华图书馆协会会报》第2卷第6期,1927年6月30日,页19〕
按:本年12月23日,范源廉病故。
七月一日
先生为王重民《老子考》撰写序言。〔《老子考》,1927年7月初版〕
按:如王重民自序所言“民国十四年,从袁守和先生受目录学,大好之,乃发愤先为《老子考》,因一可藉以抽绎各史志藏书志,一可为研究老子之预备也。”可知此书与先生颇有渊源,也是王重民学术事业的起始点,全书依历史时期(朝代)分为七卷,另有附录六种,以及引用书目、补遗、勘误等。此书为《中华图书馆协会丛书》第一种,分上下两册,梁启超署检。
七月六日
先生代张奚若致信史密斯森协会国际交换业务执行秘书C. G. Abbot,告知希望按月寄出交换品并告知此前收到的箱号,所需书籍今日将寄往国会图书馆。
July 6, 1927
Mr. C. G. Abbot,
Acting Secretary,
Smithsonian Institution,
International Exchange Service,
Washington, D. C.
U. S. A.
Dear Sir:-
Replying to your letter of June 10, we beg to advise that it is our desire to receive your exchange shipments monthly. A cable to this effect has been sent to you today.
While it is true that political disturbance in China has effected the work of all government institutions, yet, we are endeavoring to do as much as we can under such circumstances. We, wish, therefore, that you continue your monthly shipment as usual until you are advised to the contrary.
The last shipment we received from you was the one containing box 1332-1340, 12222 and 12278.
With reference to your request for a copy of F. R. Tegengren's “Iron Ores and Iron Industry of China, 2 vols. Atlas, 1 vol,” we beg to advise that these are being sent to you today for deposit at the Library of Congress. As you will note, this work is under the series: Memoirs of the Geological Survey of China, Series A. No. 2. We shall be very glad to hear from you upon its arrival.
Yours truly,
Shirow Y. Chang
Director
per. T. L. Y
〔出版品国际交换局英文信纸。Smithsonian Institution Archives, Records, 1868-1988(Record Unit 509),Box 1, National Library, Peiping〕
按:Charles G. Abbot(1872-1973),美国天文学家,史密斯森协会第五任秘书,本谱中译作“阿博特”。落款处先生代张奚若签名,并注明代签。F. R. Tegengren即Felix R. Tegengren(1884-1980),瑞典地质学家,通译为“丁格兰”,曾任北洋政府农商部地质调查所技师,其书全称为The Iron Ores and Iron Industry of China, including a summary of the iron situation of the circum-Pacific region,1921年至1924年出版,同时刊行中文译本《中国铁矿志》,由谢家荣翻译。该信于8月4日送达。
七月十二日
先生致信李俨,告知代钞四库本《乾坤体义》费用,并寄还《杨辉算法》。
乐知先生大鉴:
《杨辉算法》顷已交邮寄山西平陆县南街郭宅转上,谅可先达尊览。兹又奉上照四库本代钞之《乾坤体义》两册,共费洋贰拾贰圆贰角壹分柒厘,单据六纸即以附呈。前曾收到洋贰拾叁圆正,所余洋柒角捌分叁厘现存敝处,收到后并希赐示为荷。此上,顺候时祺。
袁同礼谨启
十六年七月十二日
〔北京图书馆用笺。中国科学院自然科学史研究所图书馆藏札〕
按:本信为文书代笔。
七月二十九日
先生致信康乃尔大学图书馆馆长,寄赠《永乐大典》影本及《老子考》,询问其馆藏《永乐大典》卷数,并恳请赠送北京图书馆一册Catalogue of the Dante Collection。
July 29, 1927
Librarian,
Cornell University Library,
Ithaca, N. Y.
U. S. A.
Dear Sir:-
We take pleasure in presenting to the Cornell University Library a copy of the photographic edition the Yung Lo Ta Tien vols. 2610-2611 and a copy of the Bibliography of Lao Tse, by Wang Chung-Min, 2 vols., which you will perhaps find useful for your Chinese collection.
As you have several copies of the Yung Lo Ta Tien, we would like to know the exact Chüan(volumes)of each copy and the number of pages in each volume, etc. May it be possible for you to find out this for us, as we are making a check-list of all existing volumes of this great Encyclopedia.
The Metropolitan Library would like to have a copy of the Catalogue of the Dante Collection, presented by Willard Fiske to Cornell University. If it is still available for distribution, may we hope that you may have an extra copy to spare for our use? If, however, there is any charge, we shall be glad to hear from you.
Yours truly,
T. L. Yuan
Associate Director
〔北京图书馆英文信纸。Cornell University Library, Wason Collection Records, 1918-1988, Box 1, Folder Koo, T. K. Letters〕
按:《永乐大典》影本及王重民所著《老子考》并非随信寄送,而是以挂号印刷品形式寄出。此件为打字稿,先生有轻微修改,落款处为先生签名。
七月
北京图书馆委员会改组,当选委员有周诒春(委员长)、任鸿隽(书记)、李四光(会计)、张伯苓、戴志骞、先生。〔李致忠主编《中国国家图书馆百年纪事》,北京:国家图书馆出版社,2009年,页13〕
七、八月间
先生赠《老子考》与文字同盟社。〔《文字同盟》第5号,页25〕
按:本年4月《文字同盟》由文字同盟社(北京西长安街21号)创刊,张蔚瑜、桥川时雄先后负责编辑,第6号介绍《老子考》,后又在第10、11号连载了王重民的《杨惺吾著述考》,第15、16号连载了《北京图书馆略史》。
八月十八日
下午,先生访江瀚(小方家胡同3号),后吴瀛来,商讨抵制内务部拟将大高殿档案迁移的办法,决定一面函呈国务院,一面请人从旁疏通。〔《故宫周刊》第76期,1931年3月21日,第4版〕
按:内务部礼俗司新任司长李升培意欲有所政绩,故主张收回太庙、大高殿两所。故宫博物院同人似欲舍太庙,保大高殿,盖后者为清军机处档案暂放地。
先生致信李俨,告满文本《几何原本》须等陈寅恪回京后代为商洽,并请其寄梅文鼎小像以利叶恭绰编纂《清代名人画传》。
乐知先生大鉴:
顷奉七月廿八日大函,敬悉《乾坤体义》一书已达尊览。《杨辉算法》三册前已于七月九日寄至山西平陆南街陇海郭宅转送,如未收到,请一询为盼。满文译本《几何》须俟陈寅恪君返京,再谋报命。清梅文鼎小像,现叶玉虎先生正在搜集,能惠寄一用否?顷得美国寄来Probabilities图两张,特附函奉赠,即希察入为荷。专此,顺候时绥。
袁同礼谨启
十六年八月十八日
附图两张。
〔北京图书馆用笺。中国科学院自然科学史研究所图书馆藏札〕
《中华图书馆协会会报》第3卷第1期,页23-25。
按:本年夏,叶恭绰在《中华图书馆协会会报》刊登启事——征求清代学者像传,梅文鼎、李善兰等人即其中之“待访各象”。
Probabilities应指概率(论)。本信为文书代笔。
八月十九日
下午,吴宓赴北京图书馆访先生,不值。〔《吴宓日记》第3册,页392〕
八月二十五日
吴瀛访先生,意欲作书告知颜惠庆,恳其致函沈瑞麟。晚,先生回访吴瀛,告知叶恭绰自天津致信沈瑞麟劝其不可夺大高殿,然沈之回信言此事必行。〔《故宫周刊》第76期,1931年3月21日,第4版〕
按:沈瑞麟(1874-1945),字砚裔,浙江湖州人,清末民初政治家、外交官,时任内务总长。
八月二十六日
晚,吴瀛打电话,商量延请之前来大高殿参观的国务院人员,先生觉此办法甚好,遂赞同。
按:本日吴瀛偶会许宝蘅,后者将国务院“无理要求”的缘由告知。盖前次参观大高殿被北大派同人生硬拒绝,遂生此念,不妨诚邀其参观一次,或可自然冰释。〔《故宫周刊》第79期,1931年4月11日,第4版〕
八月三十日
康乃尔大学图书馆华生特藏部主任致函先生,告知所藏《永乐大典》各册卷号并赠北京图书馆Catalogue of the Dante Collection一册。
30 August 1927
Mr. T. L. Yuan, Associate Director
Metropolitan Library
Peking, China.
Dear Sir:
We thank you very much for the photographic reproduction of the volume of the Yung Lo Ta Tien which contains sections 2610-2611, and for the Bibliography of Lao Tse by Wang Chung-min, which came today.
The reproduction of the volume of the Yung Lo Ta Tien is exceedingly interesting. We congratulate you on it and assure you of our best wishes for the success of your plan for making a check list of all existing volumes of this great work and of reproducing them as it is possible. We have in the Wason Collection five volumes containing ten sections:
One volume of 32 leaves containing section 13, 453
One volume of 45 leaves containing sections 13, 879-13880
One volume of 54 leaves containing sections 15, 868-15, 870
One volume of 54 leaves containing sections 19, 781-19, 782
One volume of 42 leaves containing sections 19, 783-19, 784.
We are sending you, with our compliments and thanks, a copy of the Catalogue of the Dante Collection.
Sincerely yours,
Curator of the Wason Collection on China and the Chinese.
〔Cornell University Library, Wason Collection Records, 1918-1988, Box 1, Folder Koo, T. K. Letters〕
按:此件为底稿。
八月三十一日
《中华图书馆协会会报》刊登先生文章,题为《〈永乐大典〉现存卷数续目》。〔《中华图书馆协会会报》第3卷第1期,1927年8月31日,页9-11〕
按:此文所辑为本年6月在日本所见之27册和最近在北京所知者,署名为“同”。
九月一日
北京图书馆委员会议决设立建筑委员会,推范源廉、李四光、周诒春、先生、Conrad W. Anner五人担任委员。〔《北京图书馆第二年度报告(十六年七月至十七年六月)》,页3〕
按:本年3月,北京图书馆将新馆建筑竞赛图案寄送美国建筑学会,该会指定顾理治(Charles A. Coolidge)、亚特理(W. T. Aldrich)等人合组审查。8月24日,顾理治电告首奖为第八号,其余二、三、四等奖分别为第十五号、第一号、第五号。Conrad W. Anner(1889-1960),德裔美国建筑师,本谱通译作“安那”,出生于柏林,1909年移民美国,1919年受聘于洛克菲勒基金会,以北京协和医学院建筑的主要绘图师身份主持征募设计图案,并参与投标,获得第四奖,后充监督工程师。
九月三日
下午,沈瑞麟和刘尚清各带随员四名,到故宫博物院调查,先生、吴瀛、俞同奎、汤铁樵等人招待接洽。〔《故宫周刊》第80期,1931年4月18日,第4版〕
按:刘尚清(1868-1947),字海泉,辽宁铁岭人,晚清民国政治人物,时任农工总长。
九月十五日
先生致信李俨,请其寄李善兰像。
乐知先生大鉴:
顷奉九月一日手札,诵悉一是。满文译本《几何原本》一俟陈寅恪君返京,当即代为接洽。李善兰小像,亦在叶先生搜求之内,倘荷影摹或径以原本见示,至深纫感。附来征求算书启事,亦已代为分送矣。专此布覆,顺候时祺。
弟袁同礼谨启
九月十五日
〔北京图书馆用笺。中国科学院自然科学史研究所图书馆藏札〕
按:李善兰(1811-1882),字竟芳,号秋纫,别号壬叔,浙江海宁人,近代数学家、天文学家。该信为文书代笔。
九月二十三日
先生致信王重民,请其带信转交严侗并告知北京图书馆藏《老子通》版本情况,可就直隶省立第一图书馆馆藏版本补钞。
重民吾兄:
兹奉上致严馆长信一件,赴津时可携交之。《老子通》购到者系明本(共四本缺第一本),半叶十行,行二十字,北京图书馆所缺者系第二十五叶以前者。如能照样影钞,其钞写费当由北京图书馆奉上也。此颂时安。
袁同礼顿首
九,二十三
该文排印错误甚多,笔者自行订正,以下各处皆同。
〔顾晓光《袁同礼致王重民四通书信浅疏》,《图书馆论坛》,2019年,第39卷第4期,页125-129〕
按:“严馆长”应指严侗,字台荪,严修五弟,时任直隶省立第一图书馆馆长。
十月六日
日人松崎鹤雄在西长安街宣南春设宴,答谢在京的中日两国学人。与席的中方学人有沈兼士、阚铎、陈垣、胡玉缙、黄节、杨树达、先生、程淯、曹经沅、孙人和、黄复生、马衡、马廉、杨虓、钱稻孙,日方学人有石本宪治、小平绥方、桥川时雄、杉村勇造,席间合影留念。〔《文字同盟》第8号,页18〕
按:松崎鹤雄(1868-1949),号柔甫,曾随叶德辉学习版本目录学,时在满铁图书馆任职,为该馆馆务来北京盘桓二十余日。胡玉缙(1859-1940),字绥之,号绥庵,江苏吴县人,清末学部员外郎,民元后曾任国立历史博物馆筹备处主任。孙人和(1894-1966),字蜀丞,江苏盐城人,文献学家。
十月十五日
先生致信史密斯森协会,请寄赠北京图书馆三种美国政府出版物。
October 15, 1927
Dear Sirs:-
Will you please be good enough to take steps to have the Metropolitan Library supplied with the publications noted below, as a part of the U. S. official documents transmitted to the Chinese Government through the Bureau of International Exchange of Publications, Peking?
Thanking you for your courtesy,
Yours truly,
T. L. Yuan
Associate Director
1.Report of the Investigations of U. S. Patent Office House Doc.1110-63rd Cong. 3rd Session.
2.Manual of Classification of Subjects of Invention, etc.(Patent Office)
3.U. S. National Museum, Proceedings, vols. 1, 3, 4, 6-11 inclusive, 13-15 inclusive, 17-20 inclusive, 22-35 inclusive, 38-46 inclusive, 48-51 inclusive, 54, 66 and continuation.
〔北京图书馆英文信纸。Smithsonian Institution Archives, Records, 1868-1988(Record Unit 509),Box 1, National Library, Peiping〕
按:先生对打字件有修改,落款处为先生签名。该信于11月12日送达。
十月二十日
西北科学考查团理事会假国学研究馆召开会议,周肇祥、刘半农、先生、徐森玉、徐协贞、常福元、庄尚严等人出席。周肇祥为会议主席,报告、议决各案如下:
(一)教育部转新疆省长兼督办军务善后事宜杨增新电阻考察团入境事。议决,(1)备文致内务、外交、教育、实业四部声述考察团筹组经过情形并请四部合电杨增新解释一切,允许该团入境考察。(2)公推周肇祥、徐森玉、先生分往内务、外交、教育、实业四部面见总长详细疏解。(3)公推刘半农到瑞典使馆报告此事,并声明现正在补救。(4)请叶恭绰、周肇祥以私人身份向政府疏通。
(二)聘请庄尚严为本会秘书。
(三)函国学研究馆暂调该馆书记李德启兼任本会办事员,每月由理事会支洋二十元。〔国家图书馆档案,档案编号1927-※042-外事1-001023和1927-※042-外事1-001024〕
中国新疆维吾尔自治区档案馆、日本佛教大学尼雅遗址学术研究机构编,《中瑞西北科学考察档案史料》,乌鲁木齐:新疆美术摄影出版社,2006年,页8。
按:周肇祥(1880-1954),字养庵,浙江绍兴人,清末举人,肄业于京师大学堂,后任北京古物陈列所所长,团城国学书院副院长;徐协贞(1870—?),字吉轩,湖北钟祥人,甲骨文专家,早年留学日本,曾任北洋政府教育部佥事、历史博物馆筹备处主任、历史博物馆主任等职;常福元(1874-1939),字伯琦,江苏南京人,早岁就读于北洋水师学堂,毕业后转投身图书编译及教育工作,历任北京大学、北平师范大学、辅仁大学等教授,曾筹办中央观象台。杨增新(1864-1928),字鼎臣,云南蒙自人,清末民初政治人物,长期担任新疆省长。是年10月16日,新疆“省政府就阻止汉奈斯·司科勒德等三人入新加入考察团事给交涉署的训令”
,一反此前支持态度。
十月二十四日
故宫博物院管理委员会公布大批干事名单,先生位列其中,并接受图书馆副馆长的任命。〔吴瀛《故宫尘梦录》,页143〕
按:此次干事任命约有24名,图书馆馆长本为江瀚,但其请辞,后由傅增湘担任。先生专任图籍部,另一副馆长为许宝蘅,后者专任掌故部。
十一月一日
先生致信李俨,请其寄华蘅芳像。
乐知先生大鉴:
前蒙惠寄李壬叔小像,昨已用毕,另封挂号奉还,尚希察入。华蘅芳小像,叶先生亦甚愿搜集,倘承再为检出寄下,尤深感荷。原图用毕,仍当由敝处奉还无误。此上,顺候时祉。
弟袁同礼启
十六年十一月一日
〔北京图书馆用笺。中国科学院自然科学史研究所图书馆藏札〕
按:华蘅芳(1833-1902),字若汀,江苏无锡人,数学家。该信为文书代笔。
十一月十三日
陈寅恪致函先生,告所询写经大概内容及其中语言文字,并谓该卷装裱错乱。
手卷中文系《贤愚经》第一卷之一段。此经为六朝时河西沙门八人在于阗听讲时所撰集,并非翻译成书,故可宝贵。详见僧佑《出三藏记集》第九卷《贤愚经序》。手卷回文(书法不甚古,书用毛笔,骤视以为蒙古文)中有菩提萨等字,当是佛经。但手卷既已割裂,装裱时又有错乱颠倒,殊未易知其为何经也。
昨夜匆匆翻阅一过,既无参考书籍,又值学校闹风潮,未能详考,尚乞谅之。匆上,即叩
守和吾兄先生撰安
弟寅恪顿首
十三日
元代国书,系本藏文,非本畏兀吾文,王晋老跋语有误。
〔《陈寅恪集·书信集》,北京:生活·读书·新知三联书店,2015年,页5〕
按:“王晋老”即王树枏,字晋卿,直隶人,曾任新疆布政使。
十一月二十九日
瑞典皇家图书馆馆长Isak Collijn致函先生,告国际图书馆及目录委员选举结果及章程,请中华图书馆协会签署并推选代表。
Stockholm, November 29, 1927
Dear Sir,
Having been elected Chairman of the International Library & Bibliographical Committee, I have the honour to submit the Resolution voted at Edinburgh on September 30th 1927 at the Fifty Years' Jubilee-meeting of the British Library Association, and signed by the authorized delegates of fifteen national Associations of Librarians. This resolution contains the statutes of the Committee and the appointment of the first Executive Committee.
According to the opening paragraph, this statute of inauguration must be ratified by those national associations which desire to adhere to the Committee and even by those whose delegates have already appended their signature.
Accordingly I would request you to bring about as soon as possible a resolution of your Association ratifying the Statute and at the same time naming the delegate who is to represent and vote for your Association on that Committee.
It would be desirable if an alternative delegate were nominated immediately for the voting delegate, who in case of the inability of the delegate to attend, would be empowered to take his place.
As soon as the delegates, who according to paragraph 6 are to form the first Executive Committee, are nominated, I will constitute that Executive Committee and let it proceed to the election of the first and second Vice-Presidents and of the Secretary, according to paragraph 6, Clause 2.
The delegates assembled at Edinburgh have unanimously welcomed the result of their deliberations, as incorporated in this resolution, as a basis of fruitful scientific co-operation among the Library Associations of their various countries.
I have had great pleasure in accepting office as the first Chairman of this Committee in the hope that this foundation will receive the adhesion and collaboration of all the leading Associations and that our interests in the field of librarianship and bibliography, which we all have at heart, will be successfully furthered through international cooperation, so often desired and now at last brought into being.
Yours very sincerely
Dr. Isak Collijn,
Chief Librarian of the Royal Library, Stockholm.
Mr. Tung-Li, Yuan
Chairman of the Executive Board of The Library Association of China, The Metropolitan Library, Peking.
〔National Library of Sweden, Isak Gustaf Alfred Collijn papers〕
《中华图书馆协会会报》第3卷第4期,1928年2月29日,页19、17。
按:Isak Gustaf Alfred Collijn(1875-1949),瑞典图书馆学、目录学家,本谱中译作“柯林”,1927年至1931年担任国际图书馆协会和机构联合会(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)主席。该件为录副,但落款处为其签名。此函亦收录在《中华图书馆协会会报》中。
十二月三日
下午,先生、许宝蘅、张允亮(建设课主任)、徐森玉(流传课主任)、陈宝泉(编录课主任)、凌念京(事务课主任)到故宫博物院图书馆谈事,五时左右散。〔许恪儒整理《许宝蘅日记》,北京:中华书局,2010年,页1215〕
中央文史研究馆编《中央文史研究馆馆员传略》,北京:中华书局,2014年,页175;王菡著《魏榆隽永集》,北京:中华书局,2018年,页400。
按:张允亮(1889-1952),字庾楼,河北丰润人,近现代藏书家、目录学家,清末两江总督张人骏五子,其妻为袁世凯长女袁若桓。凌念京(1879-1958),四川宜宾人,1903年留学日本,1907年归国,曾任北洋政府教育部秘书,傅增湘与之为郎舅关系。
故宫博物院图书馆办公场所为寿安宫。
十二月六日
下午二时,故宫博物院图书馆召开会议,议定各课先通力合作办理提书、编目等事,并安排各处人事及南三所、大高殿两处工作人员。〔《许宝蘅日记》,页1216〕阿博特覆函先生,已根据来信获取《美国专利局1912年调查报告》、《专利分类指南》,并将于下次寄出。
December 6, 1927
Dear Sir:
In compliance with the request contained in your letter of October 15 the Smithsonian Institution has taken pleasure in procuring for the Metropolitan Library a copy of the Report of the Investigations of the United States Patent Office made by the President's Commission on Economy and Efficiency in December 1912 and also a copy of the Manual of Classification of Patents. These documents will be included in the next consignment of exchanges sent to China.
A reply to that portion of your request for certain volumes of the Proceedings of the United States National Museum has been addressed directly to your Library by that museum.
Very respectfully yours,
C. G. Abbot
Acting Secretary
〔Smithsonian Institution Archives, Records, 1868-1988(Record Unit 509),Box 1, National Library, Peiping〕
按:该件为录副。
十二月三十日
下午三时半,先生乘京奉车由天津返回北京,车中与许宝蘅、周肇祥谈事。〔《许宝蘅日记》,页1220〕
按:本月23日,范源廉在天津病逝。先生此次赴津,极有可能是协助处理范源廉丧事。
十二月三十一日
《中华图书馆协会会报》刊登先生文章,题为《中国加入国际交换出版品协约之经过》。〔《中华图书馆协会会报》第3卷第3期,1927年12月31日,页3-4〕
按:后附公牍协议原文及译文。
十二月
本期目录页及英文封面被排字工误印为“九月”,实为十二月,特此说明。
《图书馆学季刊》刊登先生文章,题为《明代私家藏书概略》。〔《图书馆学季刊》第2卷第1期,1927年12月
,页1-8〕
本年底
先生致信Thomas F. Currier,表示北京图书馆愿意帮助哈佛大学图书馆在北京购买图书。〔程焕文编《裘开明年谱》,桂林:广西师范大学出版社,2008年,页27〕
按:Thomas F. Currier(1873-1946),1894年获得哈佛大学学士学位,1902年起负责该校图书馆编目部,1913年起担任助理馆长。1928年初,哈佛大学与燕京大学签订代购图书协议,故先生的提议暂未被采纳。