一九四七年 五十三岁
五十三岁
一月三日
米尔泽夫斯基致函先生，告其已经接替莱登伯格担任美国图书馆协会国际关系委员会主席，表示乐于继续承担为中国高校挑选图书的重任。
January 3, 1947
17 Pao-King Road,
Shanghai, China.
Dear Mr. Yuan:
Please accept our thanks for your letter of November 5 in which you note that you had returned to China after having spent four months in Europe. I know that you must be glad to be home even though your absence has meant that a great deal of work has piled up for you. We are looking forward to renewing our most pleasant relationship with you in the months to come.
Since Mr. Lydenberg has retired from the Directorship of this office, I have been privileged to be named as successor. It will give me a great deal of personal pleasure, as well as professional, to work with you.
We are especially glad to have your word that the periodicals and the books have now been received. We were worried about them since we were afraid that something might have happened to them. In your hands, we know that they will receive the kind of distribution which needs to take into account all of the library needs of China, both governmental and non-governmental.
Because I know that other members of our Board will be pleased to have word of your return to China and to know that the distribution of books and periodicals is taking place, I am having a copy of your letter sent to each member of the Board.
We trust that by this time you will have received the communication about the selection of books for Chinese universities. This is one of the most interesting jobs it has been our privilege to be able to carry out and we hope that we may be able to continue it.
Sincerely yours,
Marion A. Milczewski,
Director
〔The American Library Association Archives, China Projects File, Box 1, Correspondence about China, National Library at Peiping, 1946-1947〕
按：此件为录副。
一月四日
《大公报》（天津）刊登先生撰写的《图书周刊》复刊词。
二十二年九月，我和几位对于中外图书目录学有兴趣的朋友，在天津《大公报》创刊了一个《图书副刊》。每周一期。直到二十六年七月二十二日，出至第一百九十一期。因卢沟桥事变突起，炮声震撼平市，本刊编辑人仓皇离平而停刊，到如今整整十年了。我们这次又应《大公报》之约，自今年一月起，在津沪两地同时复刊。这是非常值得庆幸的事。缅怀过去，瞻望未来，有不能已于言者。
在那年九月二十二日创刊号“卷头语”里，我曾说过下边这几句话：中国是印刷术最先发明的国家，西元后第二世纪便已知道造纸，第八世纪左右便已发明雕版印刷，第十一世纪左右便已知道利用活字。到了十七世纪左右，又已有了世界上最古而又最精美的五彩套印书籍。然而近二十几年书籍出版的数字非常低落，据统计不过二四八〇〇种，这真是一个可怜的数目。到今日印刷术最先发明的民族，反成了出版业最低落的国家。
我又说：一国图书出版的盛衰，就是一个民族生活力强弱的表现。我们打算从这方面去找出我们这民族再生的源泉和优良的品种，培植起来，积垒起来，以求达到理想的境界。
因此，我们想用一部分的力量，来作中外新旧图书的介绍和批评，给予一般人以书籍选择的尺度，并着重于有系统的评介，以便读者能够“触类旁通”。此外又拟尽力来传达学术界的消息，使一般人士也能知道中国和外国学术界进展的轮廓。为了实现此种理想起见，除常常刊登“学术消息”外，又拟仿照外国学术年报办法，每年作一次概括的总账，综合论述这一年内学术界出版界进展的实况。
这些老生常谈，在抗战胜利周年后的今日，依然是针对现实的说法，依然是我们所怀抱惟一的愿望。
回想这八年来，敌寇肆虐，空袭频繁，以及其他种种天灾人祸，无论前方后方，被敌寇间接的或直接的摧毁和掠夺的图书，真难以数计。同时相反地，转移到后方的出版界，因为原料缺乏，工价高翔，运输困难，种种客观条件的束缚，生产量也萎缩到了极点。影响所及，精神食粮的供应，顿时失去平衡，学生说书贵，教授闹书荒，都是常见的事。这不仅中国如此，除美国外，英国及其他欧洲各国也遭逢到同样的厄运。
现在大战已成过去，出版界亟应急起直追，加紧复员，至少限度须立刻恢复到战前的生产量，以适应当前需要。而全国各处以“精神食粮仓库”自命的公私立图书馆，尤应早日得到政府和社会的协力，设法充实起来，健全起来，而善尽其职责。
我们这个《周刊》，不前不后，恰于此时复刊，所负时代的艰巨使命，自非往日可比。一方面要评介战后八年来，尤其近二三年来中外新版图书，作为《周刊》的主要任务，同时我们也要尽力报道学术界和出版界的消息，以供读者观摩和参考。此外目录、版本、校勘之学，本是历史方法亦即科学方法的一部分，我们也将以新姿态、新资料与读者相见，并请求专家批评，以期有所改进。
以上这一点点的愿望，我们也不敢自信是否能够顺利做到。我们惟有恳切地盼望国内外朋友们和读者们，给予我们伟大的同情和协助，以加强我们的信心与努力。
〔《大公报·图书周刊》第1期，1947年1月4日，第7版〕
按：该文失收于《袁同礼文集》。
一月六日
顾斗南致函先生，请代询相关人士汪精卫赠日本皇室屏风是否为故宫博物院旧藏。
守和先生赐鉴：
敬启者，汪逆于三十年六月访问敌国日本时，赠送其皇室翡翠屏风四扇，是否故宫旧物，莫得而知，然国宝不宜流传于外，可否由我诸公建议教部追还之处，自钧裁。专此，敬请道安。
顾斗南谨启
一月六日
〔《马衡年谱长编》，页937〕
按：先生收到后将该函转与马衡，后者批复“非故宫物。衡”。
一月八日
中午十二时，平津地区国立院校长第五次谈话会在北平艺专举行，先生应参加。〔《民国日报》（天津），1947年1月5日，第4版〕
一月上旬
外交部部长王世杰致电先生，邀请提前赴京，并担任中国对日要偿代表团外交部代表赴日工作。〔《华北日报》，1947年1月13日，第2版〕
一月十一日
中午，先生在馆中设宴，胡适、陈垣、向达、周一良、赵万里、邵循正、容肇祖、季羡林等人与席。饭后，先生引导诸位参观最近购入之宋版书，胡适谈《水经注》版本问题。〔《此心安处是吾乡：季羡林归国日记（1946-1947）》，页144；《华北日报》，1947年1月12日，第3版〕
先生致信Laurence J. Kipp，澄清英美赠书分配委员会与经济部毫无关系，前者隶属于教育部，并由中央研究院负责接收英美捐赠图书期刊，另向其询问美国图书中心此前发送给中国各基督教大学六百箱书籍的航运等信息。
January 11, 1947
Mr. Laurence J. Kipp
Acting Executive Director
American Book Center
Study S 46, Deck A
Library of Congress
Washington 25, D. C., U. S. A.
Dear Mr. Kipp:
A copy of your letter of November 4, 1946, addressed to H. E. Y. W. Wong, Minister of Economic Affairs, has been forwarded to me for reference.
I am afraid the Chinese Embassy in Washington has misunderstood the relation between the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Committee on Distribution of Books because of our Chairman, Dr. Wong Wen-hao, who was once Minister of Economic Affairs. Our Committee was appointed by the Academia Sinica, but the Ministry of Education is paying our expenses, though it does not interfere with our work. Our Committee so far has had no relations with the Ministry of Economics.
The Academia Sinica in Shanghai has furnished work space to our Committee. Hereafter, please send shipments by UNRRA-CNRRA to Chinese Committee on Distribution of Books, c/o Academia Sinica, 37-B Brenan Road, Shanghai. Correspondence may be addressed there too. In case there are matters requiring my personal attention, please send a copy to me here in Peiping.
Please look up your files whether you have ever sent 600 cases of books addressed to Christian Universities, and give me all information you have regarding their shipment. These cases, according to Dr. Y. W. Wong, were addressed to the Ministry of Economic Affairs, but the Ministry has not received them. Our Committee is now locating the whereabouts of these cases.
I hope this matter will receive your attention.
Yours sincerely,
T. L. Yuan
〔The American Library Association Archives, China Projects File, Box 2, Books for China Correspondence, 1947〕
按：Laurence J. Kipp，美国图书馆专家，北达科他州河谷市州立师范学院（Valley City State Teachers College）毕业，后获得伊利诺伊大学图书馆学硕士学位，曾任尤里卡学院（Eureka College）图书馆馆长。“H. E. Y. W. Wong”应指翁文灏（Wong Wen-hao），时任经济部长；CNRRA即China National Relief and Rehabilitation Administration（中国善后救济总署）。该件为副本。
先生致电布朗，告捐赠图书尚未分发，随后寄上相关报告。
DONATED BOOKS NOT YET DISTRIBUTED. CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITIES RECEIVE EQUAL ATTENTION FROM COMMITTEE. REPORT FOLLOWS.
〔The American Library Association Archives, China Projects File, Box 2, Books for China Correspondence, 1947〕
一月十三日
先生致信布朗，告知曾发电报，虽然已收到四类书刊，但因教育部一直没有公布一九四零以来订购的二十套美国期刊的分配方案，只得暂缓书刊发放工作，并告中央研究院英美赠书分配委员会对教育部订购期刊没有分发权，但对美国图书馆协会、美国图书中心捐赠的书刊会严格遵守国际关系委员会制订的“书刊在中国分发原则”，坦言这一工作的艰巨性，极难让所有接受机构满意。
January 13, 1947
Dear Dr. Brown:
On receiving your letter of December 24, I sent you the following radiogram:
DONATED BOOKS NOT YET DISTRIBUTED. CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITIES RECEIVE EQUAL ATTENTION FROM COMMITTEE. REPORT FOLLOWS.
Pending a fuller report to be submitted later, I wish to advise that the following four categories of books have been received by our Committee.
（a）American publications issued during war years allocated to China by the ALA. They have not been distributed because our Committee has been waiting to know just what would be done with the $100,000 worth of books donated to Chinese libraries by the Department of State. I contacted Mrs. Fairbank, but as you can see from the enclosed copy of her reply, we did not get anywhere. Our Committee feels that the distribution of books should be coordinated, even if handled by two separate organizations. Though the Committee is at present unable to effect the desired coordination, I hope this objective may ultimately be achieved. Any assistance your Committee may be able to lend us in this matter will be appreciated.
（b）American journals allocated to China by the ALA. They have not been distributed because our Committee has been waiting for the decision of the Ministry of Education regarding the distribution of the 20 sets of American journals which the Ministry subscribed since 1940. If the Ministry decides to allocate these journals to national institutions, a large part of the journals donated by the ALA will go to private colleges, taking into account the subscriptions already placed on their behalf by the Associated Boards of Christian Colleges in New York, and also taking into account the courses of study offered in each of these private colleges.
（c）Books shipped by the American Book Center but consigned to various institutions. They represent the duplicates selected from the Library of Congress, books collected by the Associated Boards of Christian colleges, cases and packages sent via the Smithsonian Institution, etc. In each case the name of the address was marked on the book case and our Committee has distributed them according to instructions received from the American Book Center. Among them, 257 cases of books were designated to private colleges by the American Book Center and all of them have been sent to the National Christian Council at 163 Yuan Ming Yuan Road, Shanghai, as instructed.
（d）Books shipped to China by other agencies than the American Book Center and the ALA. Cards are being made for these books and they will be distributed equally between National and Christian universities.
The special representative in China referred to in your letter must evidently have mixed up the distribution of the 20 sets of American journals subscribed by the Ministry of Education with the journals and books donated by the ALA and the American Book Center. He might wish to exaggerate his statements with a view to securing larger financial support from the Associated Boards of Christian Colleges!
As I explained to you previously, our Committee has no control over the distribution of the journals subscribed by the Ministry of Education. As to the distribution of the books and periodicals donated by the ALA and the American Book Center, our Committee shall observe strictly the"Principles in Regard to the Distribution of Books in China"as approved by the ALA Board on International Relations. At the same time, we shall see to it that at each institution there shall be no duplication of donated books and periodicals received from various sources.
I assure you that this is not an easy task. So many requests have been received that we feel overwhelmed, and there are practical difficulties that make it difficult for us to make decisions. Different libraries have suffered damages to different extent, but are equally clamorous for donated books. For us to satisfy everyone is hardly to be hoped for, but it will help the Committee greatly if libraries, desiring to share in the distribution, would communicate with us directly and not send exaggerated statements to New York as the special representative has done.
In sending the cases to China, the American Book Center has not used the correct address. I enclose herewith copies of correspondence for your information.
Yours sincerely,
T. L. Yuan
〔The American Library Association Archives, China Projects File, Box 2, Books for China Correspondence〕
按：此为抄件。
潘光旦致函先生，商谈日伪图书分配事。〔《潘光旦文集》第11卷，北京：北京大学出版社，2000年，页230〕
按：敌伪图书由五部分组成，分别为兴亚院华北联络部调查所、东亚文化协议会、桥川时雄、久下司、小谷晴亮。
一月十四日
朱家骅覆函先生，告知教育部已拨专款负责美英运来图书、仪器运费，并设立专职机构负责在上海办理该项事务。
守和吾兄大鉴：
客岁十二月十六日惠书拜悉。关于上海提领国外捐购图书运费事，近已由部拨汇一千万元交李芳馥君，谅可敷用。兹以该项图书源源入口，提领清理工作至为繁重，已在沪设立国外捐购图书仪器提运清理办事处，专办此事，今后入口箱件当可迅捷处理矣。专复，即颂时祺。
弟朱家骅顿首
元月十四日
〔教育部部长室用笺。国家图书馆档案，档案编号1945-※057-综合5-005003〕
按：1945、1946年先生在欧美订购的图书、仪器确须由国民政府教育部支付运费，因此有专款拨付的必然需求，但先生募捐的图书则多不在此列。此件为打字稿，落款处钤朱家骅印。
一月十五日
某记者来访，先生告以下诸事：一、坚辞外交部对外要偿代表团代表一职；二、收缴约四十一万册日文书籍，现已移至太庙，正派员整理并待分配，平馆在此基础上将成立日本研究室；三、平馆已收到美方（杜威博士）捐赠西文图书一百三十余箱，日内将编辑整理；四、夜间阅览室待煤炭供应恢复后继续承办；五、奉教育部令代为接收伪教育总署档案；六、教育部拨款委托平馆上海办事处提运、整理国外捐赠的图书。〔《世界日报》，1947年1月16日，第3版〕
下午，潘光旦、张准至金鱼胡同宅访先生，谈日伪图书分配事。先生告知待分配的图书均已自东厂胡同运至太庙，仍分别堆放，近日正准备添置木架用以插放，如何整理分配、复本如何处置、教育部处理意见如何答复，均需与平馆协商后解决。〔《潘光旦文集》第11卷，页231〕
按：是日，潘、张二人先拜访了敌伪产业处理局孙越崎，询问五单位图书有无清单，但未得结果。与先生谈后，又至东厂胡同见分配委员会委员沈兼士、胡适，希望他们帮助清华大学获得该批图书的八成。
一月十六日
上午十一时，教育部视察平津地区高等教育专员吴正华、刘求南前往平馆，先生负责接待并报告馆务，二人对平馆馆藏和业务情况极为称许。〔《民国日报》（天津），1947年1月17日，第4版〕
按：吴正华，字西屏，安徽庐江人，曾任北京大学历史系讲师，1940年6月入教育部，时应任学术审议委员会委员。刘求南，安徽南陵人，1946年9月入教育部训委会工作。
一月十九日
李芳馥致函先生，告接收整理美国赠书上海临时办事处前后收到寄到书刊批次情况，指出问题关键在于联总运输困难，另将飞回武汉脱离该项事务。
守和先生赐鉴：
关于分配处前后收到及待提书箱，谨报告如下：
（一）第一批收到205箱，系美图书中心寄来，其中只有七箱寄交图书分配委员会分配，书单另邮寄上。
（二）第二批收到257箱，箱面概注明受赠机关，分配处只分别通知而已。
（三）第三批收到72箱，系赵主任夫人筹用United China Relief名义所捐得，现在整理中。
第四批收到壹箱，系教部在英国所购书，箱面写明寄中央信托局。
第五批70箱，系教部托British Council在瑞典所购英文书，尚未提到分配处。
第六批18箱，由联总运来，只收到提单并未注明来源，大约系美中心书。
第七批74箱，情形同上
第八批101箱，系教部在英所购书，在待提中。
此外分配处收到ALA所赠之Outstanding publications of a reference and research value published in 1944 and sent directly from the publishers 178种（书单另邮寄上），每种四部，及1946出版之美国杂志而已（亦系由出版公司直接由邮寄来）。至于ALA所赠由联总运来之1939至1943年出版之书籍又3 cases of sample copies of periodicals。又所赠1946年以前出版之期刊全未收到（教部所订购之期刊清单、ALA所赠期刊清单、又本馆所编清单皆已另邮挂号寄上）。美中心将书籍交联总，但联总迟迟不运来，国内各学校因未配得书向教部及美方发怨言，美方亦以为何至今未收到分配报告为言，其实此间收到美心中书籍待分配者只有书七箱、1944出版之书籍及1946出版之期刊而已。书籍未运到，教吾人如何分配。此层似应通知美心中及ALA，前美中心通知于七月二日运来书籍36箱，至今未收到，联总运书之慢如此（此层或者应由行总负大部分责任）。分配处改组，事前吾人不得而知，教部做事每每如此。杨维庆见此情形决定仍回中基会，林先生处一月份亦不支薪，此后分配处事暂由王醒吾负责（蒋慰堂已定渠为事务组主任），以待正式接收。回汉飞机票已购得，明日（星期一）上午七时起飞，抵汉后当航函报告。匆此，敬请道安。
后学李馨吾上
卅六年一月十九日晚
又美图书中心通知于十一月四日由联总运来160箱（我馆38箱在内），十一月廿七日运来78箱，则不知何时可到。
馨吾又及
该处似位于中央研究院上海理工实验馆内，待考。
〔教育部接收整理美国赠书上海临时办事处
信纸。国家图书馆档案，档案编号1946-※046-外事5-006037至1946-※046-外事5-006042〕
按：两处“美心中”似当作“美中心”。“赵主任夫人”或指杨步伟，待考。“行总”应指联合国善后救济总署（“联总”）。王醒吾，浙江平阳人，早年赴日留学，时应任教育部专员，后竞选国民大会代表。杨维庆，生平待考。该信附一页清单，题为Books received from American Book Center，分前后两批，各为205、257箱。
一月二十日
Rae Cecilia Kelly致函先生，此前递交的各院校计划购买书目大都过时，相应书籍早已绝版，建议经过各学科顾问的审查后购买现下美国最好的书刊。
January 20, 1947
Dear Dr. Yuan:
On August 13, 1946, you sent us an appropriation for the following Chinese universities:
Dr. Wei of the Universal Trading Corporation provided the definite figures for book purchases. The matter has rested here, up until this time, due to the fact that we wish to complete our bibliographies before handling these specific requests.
In comparing the request lists from these universities with the completed bibliographies, we find that the bibliographies supplied by these schools pertain to many titles which are now out of print. Therefore, it is our considered opinion that a much more useful collection could be purchased for the schools or universities, if the selection were made from the bibliographies compiled. In order to carry out such a suggestion, we should need a clarification of the faculties and subject departments of the schools, with the exception of the National Sunyatsen University which is included on your original list.
It is not only a question, Dr. Yuan, of the endless task of checking the bibliographies in question, but rather the waste effort involved in such a procedure. The material is hopelessly out-dated, and out-of-print market today is almost non-existent. We sincerely feel that the purchase of the best available material in America today, as approved by consultants in each subject field, would be a far more intelligent procedure for the universities of China. Will you please let us know how you feel about this particular point as we are most anxious to send off some orders for these schools? If you will give your approval to the aforementioned plan, we should be very happy to proceed.
Very sincerely yours,
Rae Cecilia Kelly
Executive Assistant
〔The American Library Association Archives, China Projects File, Box 2, Yuan T. L., 1946-1947〕
按：Dr. Wei，待考。该函寄送上海宝庆路办事处，此件为录副。
一月二十一日
先生致信Rae Cecilia Kelly，对刚收到去年来函表示歉意，并对编纂书目工作表示感谢，另告其中国专业院校只需要专业领域的书籍。
January 21, 1947
Dear Miss Kelly:
Your letters of December 20 and December 28 were received this morning. As both of them were addressed to our office at Shapingpa, Chungking, it was with considerable delay that they were reforwarded here. As we have returned to our headquarters at Peiping, will you kindly note that all communications should henceforth be sent to our Peiping office.
We are profoundly grateful to you and your colleagues for the great assistance you have rendered to China in compiling the bibliographies for Chinese universities! In looking over the medicine bibliography, I fully realize the vast amount of labor involved. You can rest assured that these lists will not only meet our present, but also our future needs.
I enclose my letter to Mr. Charles H. Brown, which gives additional information you requested. May I ask you to forward it to Mr. Brown after you have read it?
Specialized institutions require only books in specialized fields. For instance, N. Mercantile Marine College（which now forms a part of the National University of Communications, Shanghai）requires books only in the field of marine engineering, and the Institute of Pharmacy requires books only in the field of pharmacology and medicine. I hope it will not take up too much of your time to compile these lists of specialized subjects.
The copies of your letter and memoranda, dated December 27, to the Universal Trading Corporation meeting with our hearty approval, and I would advise you to continue in that way. We shall greatly appreciate your assistance if copies of your future lists and correspondence could be sent to us at the same time as to Mr. Boggs.
Thanking you and your colleagues once more for your valuable assistance,
Yours very sincerely,
T. L. Yuan
Director
〔国立北平图书馆英文信纸。The American Library Association Archives, China Projects File, Box 2, Chinese Universities Correspondence, 1946-1947〕
按：此件为打字稿，落款处为先生签名，于2月4日送达。
先生致信布朗，感谢国际关系委员会为中国各院校编制采购书籍清单所付出的努力，并已按照要求联系各家机构，此外就国立编译馆、国立中央图书馆所需书目给予意见，澄清需要编制书目院校的数量，并希望能够在三月底前完成此项工作。
January 21, 1947
Dear Dr. Brown:
I have just received Miss Kelly's letter dated December 10, enclosing copies of your letter dated October 31 and a report on the selection of purchase bibliographies for Chinese universities. Miss Kelly's letter was addressed to our office at Shapingpa, Chungking, and it took considerable time to have it forwarded to Peiping.
On behalf of Chinese librarians, I want to express our sincere appreciation of your painstaking work in compiling these bibliographies. It is really too much a demand made upon the resources of the International Relations Office of your Association.
Concerning the information you requested, I am communicating with the different institutions and I shall write you again before very long. Meanwhile I can report that the Preparatory School for College Students was abolished last year, so lists of books for that school are no longer necessary.
Regarding the requirements of the National Institute of Compilation and Translation and the National Central Library, I would suggest that only lists of reference books such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, biographical dictionaries, who's who, geographical gazetteers, social science encyclopedias, handbooks and dictionaries in the field of natural and applied sciences, art encyclopedias and dictionaries, periodical indexes and bibliographies, should be compiled with Miss Mudge's Guide to Reference Books and the supplements as a basis of selection.
Lists for only twenty-eight institutions will be required. Regarding the remaining thirty institutions, either they have already received grants from the government or they will not receive anything. So, under these circumstances, they need not solicit any assistance from the International Relations Office of your Association.
It is our hope that the work of compiling these bibliographies will be completed by the middle of March 1947. Will you let me know how much additional funds will be required if you do not go much further than the present program. Upon hearing from you I shall take up the matter with the Chinese Government. Owing to the strict control of foreign exchange, I am afraid that the government may not be willing to spend additional funds on the program, though it is most desirable in every way.
I have just received Miss Kelly's letter dated December 29, enclosing the medicine bibliography, which, I think, is a very fine piece of work and which, I am sure will be extremely useful to our medical colleges in China.
With renewed thanks for your assistance,
T. L. Yuan
Director
P. S. Your letter of January 2 just received. Mr. Greene's supposition was correct, as I explained to you in my letter of January 13, 1947. Please inform Dr. and Mrs. Lydenberg that a hearty reception will be accorded them when they are able to arrange the proposed trip to China.
Your original letter of October 31, with the enclosed report, has not been received. Your secretary may have sent it by ordinary mail.
〔The American Library Association Archives, China Projects File, Box 2, Yuan T. L., 1946-1947〕
按：此件为录副。
一月二十五日
先生致信朱家骅，告知英美捐赠图书运华进展和运费问题。
骝先部长钧鉴：
奉到十四日赐书，藉稔钧部在沪设立国外捐购图书仪器提运清理办事处，今后入口箱件自可迅速整理。惟国外捐赠之书以运输关系，大部分仍未运寄，故沪上提运工作在本年四月以前无法结束。又同礼上年在英国捐募之书已装就二百九十八箱，由联总伦敦办事处运往上海中央研究院收转分配委员会，装箱费由图书中心担任，运费由联总担任，我方无须付款也。又整理及分配工作至关重要，李芳馥君近因母病暂行请假，近又加派职馆编目组主任曾宪三君前往上海协助一切，并希鉴核备案是幸。肃此，恭候勋祺。
〔国家图书馆档案，档案编号1945-※057-综合5-005002〕
按：此件为先生所拟之底稿，并注有“一月廿五日发”字样。
一月三十一日
先生致信Laurence J. Kipp，汇报已在上海收到的六批书刊箱数，其中前两批已经分发给不同学术机构，而教科书只有七箱且大部分于一九三零年前出版，无法分发给相关院校。
January 31, 1947
Dear Mr. Kipp:
In view of the wrong address which the American Book Center has used, I am now giving you a brief report as to the actual number of cases which we received from you at Shanghai.
1st instalment-205 cases
2nd instalment-257 cases
3rd instalment-18 cases
4th instalment-74 cases
5th instalment-160 cases
6th instalment-78 cases
Among the cases in the first instalment only 7 cases of books were received, which consisted largely of text-books published before 1930, while the rest were consigned to different institutions. All the 257 cases in the second instalment were also consigned to different institutions, and our Committee has distributed them immediately after their receipt.
So far, we have only received the bill of lading for the third instalment of 18 cases, but they have not yet arrived. This applies also to the 74 cases of the fourth instalment.
Recently we have received your notification dated Nov. 4 of the shipment of 160 cases and also your notification dated November 27 re the shipment of 78 cases, but how soon we shall be able to receive them we do not know.
It seems that everything is very slow with regard to the shipment through UNRRA. I shall be grateful to you if you would check up from your end the cause of the delay. We have received complaints about the slowness of distributing work, but, as you will note, we have so far received only 7 cases of textbooks, which were out of date and which we find it difficult to place in the hands of our colleges.
〔The American Library Association Archives, China Projects File, Box 2, Periodicals for Chinese Universities, Correspondence and Lists, 1944-1947〕
按：此件为录副，无落款。
一二月间
先生致信王重民，告知平馆宿舍能有三间房子供其及家人使用。〔《胡适遗稿及秘藏书信》第24册，页84-85〕
按：该信应于2月7日前送达，王重民认为并不敷用，因上有父母下有小孩，刘修业也有寡母需要照顾。
二月一日
先生致信布朗，告知已将李芳馥和曾宪三留在上海协助分发援助书刊，并将工作进展告知金陵大学Fenn教授，避免误会。
February 1, 1947
Dear Dr. Brown:
For your information I enclose herewith a copy of my letter addressed to Mr. L. J. Kipp of the American Book Center. As you will note, only 7 cases of books will be distributed by our Committee, while the rest were consigned to different institutions. These have been distributed according to the wishes of their donors.
Although I could not remain in Shanghai too long, I have sent two of our staff to assist in the distribution of books-Mr. F. F. Li, who studied in the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago and also the Columbia University, and Mr. Mark Tseng of the Columbia University, who worked at Stanford University Library for the last seven or eight years. Both are men of experience and know thoroughly American publications. From time-to-time directives are sent from Peiping, and I enclose herewith a memo on the Allocation of American Periodicals.
I suppose Professor Fenn of the University of Nanking serves as special representative of the Associated Boards of Christian Colleges, and I am keeping him informed about our distribution work, so there will be no more complaints in the future.
With kindest regards,
Sincerely yours,
T. L. Yuan
Director
〔The American Library Association Archives, China Projects File, Box 2, Periodicals for Chinese Universities, Correspondence and Lists, 1944-1947〕
《私立金陵大学一览》，1933年，页385。
按：Professor Fenn即William P. Fenn（1903-1993），中文名方恩
，生于美国长于中国，1932年担任私立金陵大学外文系主任，1942年担任亚洲基督教高等教育联合董事会（United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia）主任，时为该会执行秘书；其父为Courtenay H. Fenn（1866-1953），美国长老会（American Presbyterian missionary）来华传教士，中文名芳泰瑞，曾编著The Five Thousand Dictionary等。此为抄件，另附1月31日致Laurence J. Kipp信及备忘录各1页。
朱家骅覆函先生，感谢先生为国节省开支、增派曾宪三前往上海协助提运、整理美英捐购图书仪器。
守和先生大鉴：
顷获本月廿五日手书，得审台候胜常，忭慰何量。吾兄前在英国捐募之书将由联总装运来沪，我方无须付款可省国币开支，具仗贤劳，尤用忻感。承示已派曾宪三君前往上海协助工作，甚善。耑此奉复，顺颂时祺。
弟朱家骅顿首
二月一日
〔教育部部长室用笺。国家图书馆档案，档案编号1945-※057-综合5-005004〕
按：此函底稿撰写时间应在一月底，故有“顷获本月廿五日手书”之语，但实际发出则在2月1日。此件为打字稿，落款处为其签名。
二月三日
先生致信陈梦家，告知收悉赠书及所托查找目录进展。
梦家先生：
奉到一月四日手教，欣悉种种。近月以来北平及上海所出铜器甚多，惜无款未能由公家购买，大约均为美人购去定价按美金计算，故无人敢问津。《芝加哥铜器目录》业已拜收，至谢至谢，当在《大公报·图书周刊》写一介绍。《陶德曼铜器集》不易觅得，兹由艾克送上一部作为交换，至《Lochow目录》更不易办，现秘藏某处，恐藏器被没收也。弟今年无法赴欧，将来接收德国铜器，当推荐吾兄前往，惟须俟对德和约何日生效，方能派人前往接收也。匆匆，顺颂大安。
弟袁同礼顿首
二月三日
外二信请分别转交。
〔方继孝藏札〕
《大公报》，1947年3月29日，第6版。辅仁大学印字馆负责文字部分，彩华印刷局负责珂罗版印制铜器图片。
按：《芝加哥铜器目录》即Chinese Bronzes from the Buckingham Collection，1946年芝加哥艺术博物馆初版，后由张全新撰写书评，刊于《大公报·图书周刊》第13期。
Lochow应指Hans-Jürgen von Lochow（1902-1989），德国收藏家，1934年来华参与策划铁道建设规划，1940至1950年间留居北平，对中国文物兴趣极浓，以青铜器为主，兼收陶瓷、家具、书画等，1950年获得中国政府发给签证离境，并特准携带收藏离开，他的珍藏以青铜器最为著名，后捐赠科隆市的东亚美术馆。信中所提目录应指Sammlung Lochow：Chinesische Bronzen，中文题名为《冯洛侯铙斋吉金录》（两卷本），1943年、1944年由辅仁大学印字馆、彩华印书局合作刊印
，艾克则作为该书的发行人（Herausgegeben）。
二月五日
先生致信Rae Cecilia Kelly，此前其寄送重庆的书目尚未转到，请将历史、中国历史、地理、哲学、西方语言和文学的书目及其他油印书目送往北平，再次重申中央图书馆、国立编译馆、社会教育学院、贵阳师范学院所需参考书类型。
February 5, 1947
Dear Miss Kelly:
I have just received your letter of January 15 which you addressed to me at Shanghai. Of the bibliographies which you sent, only the bibliographies for medicine and agriculture have been received. These, as you will note, were enclosed in your previous correspondence. The bibliographies you sent to Chungking have not been forwarded. May I ask you to send me extra copies of the bibliographies in History, Chinese History, Geography, Philosophy, Western languages and Literature, as well as all the other bibliographies that you have mimeographed.
I have already informed you about the needs of the National Central Library. The Institute of Compilation & Translations has been engaged in the standardization of technical terms, in the translations of Western standard works on history and literature, and in the compilation of text books for university students. So, they need reference books such as dictionaries, encyclopaedias, both general and special, indexes, historical atlases, collected biographies, geographical gazetteers, etc. They need particularly dictionaries of scientific terms, and if you could include these in your bibliographies, it would help the work tremendously.
The requirements for College of Social Education and Kweiyang Teachers College are about the same. Both are colleges of education and are in need of books on various aspects of education, including reference books in the field of education and social sciences.
I shall write you later on about the requirements of the Fukien Research Academy.
Thanking you again for your valuable assistance,
Yours very sincerely,
T. L. Yuan
Director
P. S. Will you kindly ask the publisher to send us 2 copies of the latest edition of Dewey's “Decimal Classification”? If the Memorial Edition of 1932 is still available, will you ask the publisher to include that also. Please ask him to send us these two volumes by registered book-post with his bill in duplicate. Thank you.
T. L. Yuan
〔国立北平图书馆英文信纸。The American Library Association
Archives, China Projects File, Box 2, Chinese Universities, Correspondence, 1946-1947〕
按：此件为打字稿，落款和补语皆为先生亲笔，其中补语在背面书写，于2月24日送达。
二月七日
张伯苓致函先生等人，告平津国立各院校长谈话会第六次例会举办时间、地点。
敬启者：
兹订于二月十二日（星期三）正午十二时假北京大学总办事处（松公府夹道）举行平津国立各院校长谈话会第六次例会，届时务请台端拨冗出席为荷。此致
袁馆长守和国立北平图书馆
黎锦熙 北平中国大辞典编纂处
徐院长 北平铁道管理学院
徐院长悲鸿 北平艺术学院
袁院长 北平国立师范学院
李校长圣章 北平国立中法大学
梅校长月涵 国立清华大学
金校长通尹 天津西沽北洋大学
胡校长适之 北平松公府夹道北京大学
陈院长荩民 北平端王府夹道北洋大学工学院
李院长 北平国立研究院
张伯苓拜订
三十六年二月七日
〔《张伯苓私档全宗》，页1192-1193〕
按：“金校长通尹”即金问洙（1891-1964），字通尹，浙江嘉兴人，天津北洋大学毕业，本年8月辞去该校校长职务。
加斯基尔致函先生，询问此前委托平馆购买中文出版物运美情况，并希望平馆能够继续刊印书目卡片。
February 7, 1947
Dear Mr. Yuan:
The books you bought for us in Chungking and turned over to the American Embassy to be forwarded to us have never come. Do you know anything about them, or is there anything you can do about it? We are wondering, too, if any other books have been sent from Peiping or Shanghai, where the balance of our deposit was sent when your Chungking office was closed. So far, we've received nothing at all.
I trust you are pretty well re-established in the library in Peiping now.It must be a constant joy to be back. Have you been able to resume printing catalogue cards and what condition is your stock of printed cards in? We find them exceedingly useful, and should be glad to get more of them.
We shall appreciate very much any information or help you can give us about the books.
With best wishes, as ever,
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：此件为录副，无落款签名。
二月九日
下午四时，欧美同学会举行抗战后的复员成立大会，胡适、周炳琳、张伯谨、萧一山、陈福田、袁敦礼、先生、陈荩民、郭麟阁、王霭芬等七十余人到场。张伯谨任会议主席，报告会务及财务状况，并修订会章，最后选举理、监事，因时间关系，改为通信方式投票。〔《民国日报》（天津），1947年2月10日，第4版〕
按：郭麟阁（1904-1984），字炳汉，河南西平人，1928年中法大学服尔德学院毕业，后赴法留学获里昂大学文学博士，归国后长期执教于辅仁大学。王霭芬（1911—？），女，字瀛生，祖籍浙江萧山，生于江苏崇明岛，北京大学毕业，后赴法留学获巴黎大学文科硕士学位，1949年去台。
二月十三日
先生致信米尔泽夫斯基，询问一九三九年至一九四三年间出版物是否委托给美国图书中心，而后者是否通过联合国善后救济总署将书刊发送到中国，以便查找运输状态。
February 13, 1947
Mr. Marion A. Milczewski, Director
International Relations office
American Library Association
Library of Congress Annex, Study 251
Washington 25, D. C.
U. S. A.
Dear Mr. Milczewski:
I am much obliged to you for your letter of January 3, and I want to send you my congratulations for your appointment as Director of the International Relations Office. I am looking forward to our most pleasant relationships with your office in the near future.
As I wrote to Mr. Lydenberg last November, the outstanding publications issued in 1944 donated by the A. L. A. were received direct from the publishers. They are being distributed in accordance with the memo attached to my letter to Mr. Charles H. Brown. As to the publications issued in 1939-1943, we have not had any news about them. May I ask you to be good enough to find out whether you have entrusted them to the American Book Center and, if so, whether the American Book Center has sent them to China through UNRRA. Could you give me the exact date of their shipment so that we can trace them at this end?
I have had a good deal of correspondence with Miss Kelly regarding the selection of books for Chinese universities. I wish to assure you once more of our heartfelt thanks for the painstaking work which you have done in making these lists available to Chinese scholars and institutions.
Sincerely yours,
T. L. Yuan
Director
P. S. Please forward the enclosed letters to Miss Kelly and Mr. Brown.
〔国立北平图书馆英文信纸。The American Library Association Archives, China Projects File, Box 2, Books for China, 1944-47, Folder1〕
按：此件为打字稿，先生对信稿有改动，落款处为其签名，于3月3日送达。
先生致信布朗，寄上美国图书馆协会捐赠书刊的分配情况备忘录，但只限于1944年出版者，向其询问1939年至1943年出版物现在何处，并将寄赠静生生物调查所出版品。
February 13, 1947
Dear Dr. Brown:
With further reference to my letter of February l, I now enclose a memo regarding the distribution of outstanding publications donated by the ALA. If you have any comments to make, will you let me know?
So far, we have received only 178 titles in 168 volumes, representing the books issued in 1944. Since we have not received those issued in 1939-1943, we are quite anxious to trace their whereabouts. I am writing to Mr. Milczewski in regard to this matter, and I hope to hear from him before very long.
I am writing to you separately regarding the publications of the Fan Memorial Institute. These are being sent to you by registered book-post.
T. L. Yuan
Director
〔The American Library Association Archives, China Projects File, Box 2, Books for China, Correspondence, 1947〕
The American Library Association Archives，China Projects File，Box 2，Books for China，1944-47, Folder 1.
按：信中的168似乎应为186。
该信附有一页备忘录（Memorandum on the Distribution of Outstanding Publications donated by the American Library Association）。
先生致信Rae Cecilia Kelly，同意前函建议，请其按专家意见购买现在可购买到的书刊，并告国立商学院院系情况。
February 13, 1947
Dear Miss Kelly:
Thank you for your letter of January 20. I now attach further information regarding the different institutions for whom lists of books should be compiled.
I quite agree that the purchase of best available material in America today would be a far more intelligent procedure for Chinese universities than to follow their outdated and out-of-print lists. I approve of your suggestions and plans, so please proceed placing orders in accordance with various bibliographies you have compiled.
Sincerely yours,
T. L. Yuan
Director
P. S. National School of Commerce: The School is made up of seven departments, Banking, Accounting, Industrial Management, Foreign Trade, Statistics, Insurance and Cooperation.
〔国立北平图书馆英文信纸。The American Library Association Archives, China Projects File, Box 2, Yuan T L, 1946-1947〕
按：此件为打字稿，先生对信稿有改动，落款处为其签名，于3月3日送达。
布朗致函先生，就寄送中国的美国书刊、出版物分配方案无法保证私立基督教院校的利益表示深深的不安和疑问。
February 13, 1947
My dear Dr. Yuan:
I have spent the last three weeks in the East due to an accident, as the result of which I was confined to New York hospitals on account of a slight fracture. I shall, however, be in shape by March 1.
The report in regard to the distribution of books in China came not so much from a representative of Associated Boards as from a Chinese authority who has no connection with the Associated Boards. Apparently, however, he had some familiarity with the discussions of your Committee.
There are some matters mentioned in your letter of January 13 which need correction. The lists compiled by the Associated Boards were not lists on which any extensive purchases have as yet been made. The lists were prepared for the Christian colleges in China, from which they could check the books and periodicals they desired, if and when funds become available.
The books and periodicals sent over from appropriations of the State Department for distribution by the American Embassy were not intended so much as publications for permanent rehabilitation as they were intended for immediate use by scholars. The American Library Association has nothing to do with the distribution of these books by American Embassy. It was left entirely to the American Embassy, and I am very happy that such was the decision. Mrs. Fairbank is quite correct in stating that most of these books had been temporarily lost in shipment. I understand, however, that many of the boxes have now been located and are on their way, unless by chance they become lost again. I want to emphasize that the American Library Association has nothing to do with the distribution of these books. The only connection ALA had with it was to aid in the selection and binding.
I was quite aware that our Committee has no authority over the distribution ordered by the Chinese Ministry of Education. On the other hand, the distribution of the twenty copies of 199 periodicals made by the Minister of Education would affect the distributions of the periodicals purchased from Rockefeller funds, as many periodicals are on both lists. If, for example, the Journal of Biological Chemistry purchased by the Ministry of Education went to twenty national universities or national libraries, then at least some of the copies shipped to your Committee by ALA might well go to some of the Christian colleges which did not benefit by the twenty copies ordered by the Ministry of Education.
Incidentally, I was informed last November by Mr. Lochhead that these periodicals have not been shipped as of November, 1946, and that the Universal Trading Corporation had not received any priority from your government for the shipment of these accumulated volumes.
I have received directly from the Chinese authority mentioned above information in regard to the distribution of the periodicals and books sent over by the American Library Association and American Book Center which has been confirmed by a letter I have received personally from the library of a Christian college in China; I am quoting from this letter:
“I have made contacts with Dr. T. L. Yuan's Committee on Distribution of Books in China and also Mr. Wen-Yu Yan, the Executive Secretary, who has recently gone to Chungking to be the Director of the newly proposed Roosevelt Library, but I was disappointed to find that expected shipments of books from the American Library Association and the American Book Center are intended for the national libraries……, being a private institution, may not be entitled to the donations from abroad. However, we are trying to make some plea for filling up the gaps in our periodical files.”
Letters such as these certainly indicate some misunderstanding. It was never the intention of the ALA, as you know by the Tentative Suggestions we sent you, that the distribution of books and periodicals sent over by the ALA and American Book Center should be limited to national libraries. Yet apparently this impression has gone out, and we have had confirmation of this same impression from different independent sources. Possibly your Committee can correct this unfortunate impression.
It might be of assistance to us if we could have a copy of the Minutes of the meeting of your Committee held in November, 1946. As far as I know, neither the American Book Center nor the ALA has received a copy of the action taken by your committee in regard to the distribution of books. Possibly I have been misinformed as to the date of the meeting of this Committee, but I understood it was held in November. If we can obtain full information, it may help us in removing what apparently were mistaken impressions of the policy of your Committee……
I may have written some time ago of the possibility that Harry Lydenberg would go to China to aid the Associated Boards in the reorganization of the libraries of Christian colleges. He has now found it impossible to go, but the Associated Boards is planning to send over a librarian just as soon as feasible. I shall keep you informed as soon as there is any definite decision.
If you can do anything in China to dispel the feeling expressed by my correspondent noted above in regard to distribution of books, it will be greatly appreciated. I understand the difficult position the Committee is in and it has my sympathy. When there is such a great need for publications, there is sure to be some criticism. All we can do is to remove any legitimate cause for criticism, and I am sure your Committee will do so.
Yours very truly,
Charles H. Brown, Chairman
Committee on the Orient and Southwest Pacific
〔The American Library Association Archives, China Projects File, Box 2, Books for China Correspondence, 1947〕
按：此为抄件。
二月
普林斯顿大学邀请中国学者参与建校二百周年纪念活动，陶孟和、陈达、吴景超、吴文藻、吴国桢、费孝通、冯友兰、先生、李济、梁思成、梁思永、邓以蛰、陈梦家等人受邀。〔《申报》，1947年2月26日，第5版〕
Far Eastern Culture and Society, Princeton University Bicentennial Conferences, Series 2 Conference 7, 1946, pp. 3, 35.
按：该校预计在4月初举办演讲会，拟于3月20日派军舰来华接送中方学者，先生并未前往，但允诺普林斯顿大学借平馆在美暂存的古籍善本，并由吴光清、王际真等人协助举办专门展览。
二三月间
先生致信王重民，告知须在平馆兼事四小时。〔《胡适王重民先生往来书信集》，页475〕
按：3月6日，王重民偕刘修业、王黎敦抵达上海，寓安亭路80弄33号。
三月二日
先生奉教育部令赴津视察省立、市立两图书馆及市立美术馆。〔《大公报》（天津），1947年3月5日，第5版〕
按：抗战胜利后，天津各界人士筹建一座规模宏大的图书馆，1947年5月组成筹备委员会，先生此次前往天津视察，似与此事相关。省立图书馆即1908年开馆的直隶图书馆，后更名为河北省立第一图书馆；市立图书馆应指1931年开馆的天津市立图书馆；天津市立美术馆1930年设立，其馆址最初在河北公园内。
三月三日 天津
先生会同天津市教育局秘书李天贵及第三科科长曾葆清前往天津日本图书馆视察。〔中国第二历史档案馆，教育部档案·全卷宗5，国立北平图书馆请拨员工学术研究补助费经常费有关文书，案卷号11616（4）〕
按：该馆应位于天津原日租界大和公园内，先生认为该馆“旧藏中西日文图书甚富，现该处为警备司令部借用，图书则归市府教育局保管。惟以缺乏专款，无人驻馆，图书常被窃失。拟请将该馆收归国有，拨款派员保管”。
先生赴生活、远东等书店，购买大批关于苏联的图书。另外，先生与天津某收藏家商谈购买其所藏清末外交家洪钧所绘中俄交界详图。晚七时，先生拜谒杜建时市长，建议增加图书馆之经费、馆员人数，并谈美术馆馆址迁移等事。〔《大公报》（天津），1947年3月5日，第5版〕
按：洪钧（1839-1893），字陶士，江苏苏州人，清末外交家，1889年至1892年清廷驻俄、德、奥、荷四国大臣。杜建时（1906-1989），字际平，河北武清人，民国军政人士，曾赴美国雷文沃兹军事学院攻读炮兵军事学科，归国后曾任第九战区高级参谋，时为天津市市长。
先生致信胡适，请其在中基会年会中为平馆批准中西文购书经费。
适之先生道席：
阅报悉台旌指日赴京，弟顷奉令去津查视日本图书馆事，不及走谭，歉甚怅甚。兹恳者，上年十一月间，敝馆函请中基会于三十六年度补助购书费事（中文书费法币壹仟万元，西文书费美金壹万元）。此次大驾出席中基会年会，附钞原函呈阅，拟恳对于此件赐予赞助。仰荷仁言，玉成斯举，幸甚幸甚。又前在抗战期内，中基会曾代敝馆购置西文书籍多种，兹制成报告，一并送请台察。费神，容再面谢。专此，敬候道祺。
弟袁〇〇
卅六年三月三日
附抄中西文件三件。
〔国家图书馆档案，档案编号1945-※057-综合5-002004和1945-※057-综合5-002005〕
按：此件为先生所拟之底稿，其中有大幅修改，首页标注“民国三十六年叁月叁日发”。
常道直致函先生，请将美国全国教育协会捐赠中国教育学会之书刊收转并送后者在南京办事处。
同礼馆长尊兄道鉴：
久未聆教为念。弟于去年夏赴美出席世教会议，会后赴华府与美国N. E. A.负责人W. E. Givens先生接洽，请其将该会最近约十年来出版之刊物捐赠中国教育学会，每种各一册（书目单交该会）。兹接American Book Center副干事A. D. Ball女士来函，谓此项书籍即可运到，并告以应与尊处接洽，特此函达，敬希转知前途，即将该类刊物径寄“南京太平路，红花地廿二号”本会办事处为荷。耑颂教安。
弟常道直上
三月三日
Pottier路是否浦石路，敬祈便中示知。
〔World Conference of the Teaching Profession英文信纸。南京大学图书馆特藏部〕
按：N. E. A.即The National Education Association，一般译作“全国教育协会”，W. E. Givens即Willard E. Givens（1886-1971），美国教育学家，1935年至1952年担任该协会执行秘书。Pottier应指Rue Pottier，上海宝健路，非蒲石路（Rue Bourgeat）。
三月四日
中午十二时许，先生乘车返平。〔《大公报》（天津），1947年3月5日，第5版〕
季羡林致函先生。〔《此心安处是吾乡：季羡林归国日记（1946-1947）》，页171〕
Maybelle Bouchard（南京）致函先生，告知费慰梅将回国，另美国国务院和中美文化资料供应委员会均无法资助平馆出版《图书季刊》英文本。
American Embassy
Nanking
March 4, 1947
Dear Dr. Yuan:
Mrs. Fairbank is sailing for the United States tomorrow, to return to “civilian” life at Cambridge. As you probably know, Dr. Fairbank resigned last summer to resume his teaching career at Harvard, and Mrs. Fairbank has been waiting until the appointment of her successor to follow him. You will no doubt be as pleased as I am to know that our old friend Mortimer Graves is evidently to be the Embassy's new Cultural Relations Officer. We have not yet been notified when he will arrive in Nanking. In the meantime, I am carrying on the work in this office.
Before she left Nanking, Mrs. Fairbank referred to me your letter of February 26, inquiring about the possibility of a grant to the National Library of Peiping to subsidize the publication of the Quarterly Bulletin of Chinese Bibliography. She asked me to inform you that unfortunately the Department of State has no funds for grants at this time, and has not been notified of any that may be available in the future. Furthermore, she was also told that the Sino-American Cultural Service has no funds from which a grant of this kind might be made.
I am very sorry that we are not able to be of assistance to you, for I am well aware, from my years at the Library of Congress, of the fine reputation the Quarterly Bulletin has made for itself. You may be sure that I shall keep this matter in mind.
So far, it has been impossible for me to visit Peiping. I am still hoping to go before too many more months have passed, and I intend to come and see you then. Do Wang Chung-min and Wu Kwang-tsing expect to return to the National Library soon?
With all good wishes, I remain,
Sincerely yours,
Maybelle Bouchard
Assistant Cultural Relation Officer
〔Rockefeller Foundation. Series 601: China; Subseries 601. R: China-Humanities and Arts. Vol. Box 47. Folder 391〕
按：此为抄件，附于11日致史蒂文斯信中。
三月五日
先生致信布朗，明确表示美国图书馆协会、美国图书中心发来的书刊尚未分配，并保证只要自己还在分配委员会中就会尽可能保证私立大学、在华基督教院校的利益。
March 5, 1947
Dear Dr. Brown:
I have your letter of February 13. I trust you have received mine dated February 1 and February 13.
As I wrote you before, no books and periodicals from the ALA and the American Book Center have been distributed. So, I hope everybody will not criticize the committee until the books and periodicals are distributed.
With regard to the distribution of'the American periodicals donated by the ALA, it is my opinion that most of them will go to the Christian colleges as well as to national universities which have not been allocated the 20 copies of American periodicals subscribed by the Ministry of Education. I shall make strong recommendations to our Committee regarding this point.
So far, the Ministry of Education has not made any decision regarding the distribution of these periodicals in spite of our repeated requests. As soon as a decision is made, our Committee will immediately distribute the ALA periodicals to Christian colleges. I can assure you that the books and periodicals we received from the American Book Center and the ALA will be distributed both to Christian colleges and national universities. They will receive equal attention from our Committee.
Owing to my various duties in Peiping, I am thinking of resigning as Executive Secretary of the Committee on the Distribution of Books. However, it is difficult to find a man who could succeed me as Executive Secretary and who would like to serve as a target for criticisms from all sides.
As long as I am on the Committee, the interests of Christian colleges will be protected. I am having copies of your letter made and distributed to other members of the Committee. If you could keep me informed about the names of libraries desiring material from the donated books and periodicals, they would receive attention from our Committee.
With kindest regards,
T. L. Yuan
〔The American Library Association Archives, China Projects File, Box 2, Books for China, Correspondence, 1947〕
按：该信应于3月19日前送达，此为抄件。
三月七日
先生致信史蒂文斯，向其介绍平馆日本研究中心、苏俄研究中心的近况。
March 7, 1947
Dear Dr. Stevens:
Knowing that you are interested in the activities of the National Library, I am afraid that you may be inclined to think that we cannot accomplish anything in view of the inflation and the unsettled political situation in China. However, I am glad to inform you that in spite of our unfavorable situation we have been able to initiate new developments of our work.
As mentioned in my letter to you dated December 10, 1946, we have taken over a huge collection of Japanese literature, numbering over 400,000 volumes. After spending considerable time in rough sorting, the cataloguing work is proceeding rapidly under the direction of several returned students from Japan. As soon as the collection is organized, we hope that an Institute for Japanese Studies will be set up with the cooperation of local universities.
The Japanese collection is now housed in a beautiful temple-the former Ancestral Hall of the Ming and Ching dynasties-loaned to us by the National Palace Museum. During his recent visit to Peiping, the American Ambassador was very much pleased with our work and he assured us that the Japanese center we have set up would be an important agency for the scientific study of Japan.
The National Library is now organizing a Russian Research Center. Emphasis is laid on history and Sino-Russian relations. Besides buying Russian literature at Peiping and elsewhere, we have been promised assistance by Russian institutions, though on account of transportation difficulties, only a small portion of publications from the Soviet Academy of Sciences has been received.
According to Prof. J. J. Gapanovich of Tsing Hua University, who serves as Consultant to our Russian Research Center, a great number of the Russian books we purchased at Peiping are no longer available elsewhere. He suggests that we exchange microfilm copies with other Russian collections in the U. S. A. as soon as our photo-duplication laboratory is set up.
Meanwhile we have translated a number of documents relating to Sino-Russian relations. Since the printing cost in China is very high, I shall seek the assistance of Dr. Graves to see if they could be published in the U. S. A.
……
About the photo-duplication laboratory, you will recall the memorandum which I submitted to you on March 20, 1945. Since no action has been taken by the Foundation, we have purchased out of our own funds the following which have been received in Peiping:
When the Foundation decides to make us a grant in the future in connection with the photoduplication laboratory, the above items might be omitted from the list of the necessary equipment.
I hope before very long Dr. Fahs will be able to pay us a visit so that he can see our work at first hand.
……
〔Rockefeller Foundation. Series 601: China; Subseries 601. R: China-Humanities and Arts. Vol. Box 47. Folder 391, Folder 393〕
按：Dr. Fahs即Charles B. Fahs（1908-1980），本谱中译作“法斯”，美国西北大学博士毕业，曾赴京都、东京两所大学留学，二战期间在战略情报局远东部（Far Eastern Division of the Office of Military Strategic Services）服务，1946年起出任洛克菲勒基金会人文部副主管，1950年升任主管。该信残，应于3月17日送达。
三月十一日
先生致信史蒂文斯，告知《图书季刊》英文本的出版困境，另请其考虑资助美国图书馆编目专家来华指导工作。
March 11, 1947
Dear Dr. Stevens:
Referring to the Russian Research Center which we are setting up here, I am glad to inform you that we have acquired the premises of the famous Rocky Garden in the Winter Palace of Peiping. It is the historical garden built by Emperor Chien Lung and the buildings therein will meet our need for additional space for housing our Russian collection for the next few years.
We are still having difficulties in obtaining foreign exchange from the Chinese Government. So, we cannot undertake extensive acquisition of source materials until we can buy freely foreign exchange in the open market. I have been asked to visit the Soviet Union in the future, and I hope to buy extensively when our financial situation will have improved.
You have taken interest in the publication of Quarterly Bulletin of Chinese Bibliography and I wish to take this opportunity to report our present difficulties. When I returned from Europe last October, I had some assurance from the American Embassy that the Embassy would recommend a grant towards its publication from the Department of State under its cultural relations program. After four months'waiting, I received the enclosed letter which is self-explanatory. The Quarterly Bulletin has always been printed with subsidies from other sources, as our own budget has no provision for it. The cost of printing the Bulletin is higher in China than in the United States（about $890 each issue），so unless financial support is forthcoming, we shall be obliged to discontinue its publication. The table of contents for the issue now in press is enclosed herewith for your information.
The critical shortage of cataloguers of western books forms a serious problem in China today. Chinese college and university libraries are struggling along without any qualified cataloguers of western books. The Boone Library School has lowered the standard of its curriculum to that of a training school, so we cannot expect anything from it. I have been in correspondence with Dr. Milam of the ALA, suggesting that we should explore the possibility of sending out two experienced cataloguers to Peiping to conduct a seminar here for the purpose of training catalogers for Chinese libraries. If Dr. Milam brings up the matter with the Foundation, I hope you will give it your support. This Library will pay their expenses for food and lodging, but we cannot afford to pay their travel expense. Since the Foundation has given similar assistance to Latin America, I trust you would give due consideration to our request. If you would find it possible to make a grant for general operations for $30,000 for the years 1947-1950, we shall be able to render greater service to Chinese and American scholarly world.
By ordinary mail, I am sending a map of the Winter Palace which is the most picturesque spot in Peiping, and I do want to have the pleasure of showing you around when you and Mrs. Stevens come to Peiping.
With cordial regards to you and Mr. Marshall,
Yours sincerely,
T. L. Yuan
Director
〔Rockefeller Foundation. Series 601: China; Subseries 601. R: China-Humanities and Arts. Vol. Box 47. Folder 391〕
按：Rocky Garden即静清斋，为北海北岸一处独立的院落，今改称“静心斋”。此件为打字稿，落款处为先生签名，于3月20日送到。
三月十三日
先生致信于震寰，告知在美复制中美外交档案细节，并谈图书馆协会会报及会费。
镜宇仁兄大鉴：
接奉三月四日大函，备悉一切。贵馆拟加照中美等外交史料一节，自当赞助。中美者，约美金壹千元，南京已有二份（一存外交部，一存中央研究院）。贵馆似可以该款另购他书较为经济，但如仍愿影印，请径向美方函洽（地址列后）。中英者系用Photostat所照，仅能照一份，且照料之人即将返国，容俟另觅继任人选，再当奉闻。兹因无法取到外汇，此项工作势将停止，颇觉可惜。又美国印制本馆善本影片，因经手人王重民君尚未返平，详情未悉，应候询明再行函告。至抗战期间出版之会报，大部份仍存渝，已告本馆上海办事处在可能之内寄一全份，但不识仍能凑一全份否？关于协会之事，另纸详述，即希分别办理是荷。顺颂时祉。
袁同礼顿首
三月十三日
协会之款经王文山先生保管者，共四一六，六七七。七五元。兹将王先生二月十四来函奉上备查。需用时可径向王君提取。
〔台北“中央图书馆”档案，档案编号129-0001和129-0002〕
按：该信为文书代笔，落款、补语则为先生亲笔，3月17日送达中央图书馆。
中华图书馆协会撰《呈报中华图书馆协会会址及新聘常务干事请予备案由》，具先生名并钤印。〔台北“国史馆”，〈中国图书馆协会请补助（教育部）〉，数位典藏号019-030508-0015〕
按：协会会址为国立中央图书馆内，新聘常务干事即于震寰。
三月十四日
米尔泽夫斯基覆函先生，告知已经转交二月十三日的信件和备忘录与布朗，提供该信中询问的寄出时间并表示愿意协助调查运送记录。
March 14, 1947
Dear Dr. Yuan:
We are appreciative of your congratulations and sincerely hope that our pleasant relationship will continue.
Mr. Brown will be delighted to receive your memorandum and your personal letter which I am forwarding to him today. It is very difficult to trace the shipment, which you inquired about in your letter of February 13, 1947, at this time. Therefore, we are giving you the exact date, July 12, 1946, of their departure from the International Relations Office. We are enclosing, for your information, Dr. Lydenberg's letter to you dated July 26, 1946. Further, we intend to check with the shipping agent; but, since UNRRA operations are closing, we are not too hopeful about the results.
We deeply appreciate your comment on the bibliographies and selection of books,
Sincerely yours,
Marion A. Milczewski
Director
〔The American Library Association Archives, China Projects File, Box 2, Books for China, 1944-47, Folder 1〕
按：该函寄送北平，此为抄件。
Dorothy J. Comins覆函先生，告知美国图书馆协会战区图书馆援助委员会将所余书刊全部分发，其中相当一部分将分配给中国，附上第一个补充清单，并请将最终分发报告寄送给国际关系委员会。
March 14, 1947
Dear Dr. Yuan:
The Committee on Aid to Libraries in War Areas is now working on final distribution of sets of journals remaining from the stock it has purchased. Now that all countries have had an opportunity to express their need, some additional sets are being assigned to the libraries of China.
The enclosed list is the first of two supplementary lists you will receive. Most of the titles here included were purchased in small quantities. The second list now being compiled, which will probably be sent to you in about a month, will consist of extra sets of journals you have already received.
We realize that some of the sets sent you are incomplete because certain issues are out of print. The Committee is now working on plans to reproduce such issues and these will be sent to you within the next few months, either as original copies obtained from various sources, lithoprint reproductions in reduced size, or as a last resort microfilm copies.
We hope these additional sets of wartime issues of American journals will prove useful. May we once more emphasize that the Committee's subscriptions to these journals, with a few exceptions already reported to you, expired at the end of 1946. The Committee has no funds for continuing these subscriptions, and publishers have been asked to send renewal notices to you. We are also anxious to have a complete report from you showing the exact allocation of all journals sent to you for distribution.
Sincerely yours,
Dorothy J. Comins
Executive Assistant
〔The American Library Association Archives, China Projects File, Box 2, Periodicals for Chinese Universities, Correspondence and Lists, 1944-1947〕
按：该函寄送上海由中央研究院代转，此为抄件，另附1页期刊名单，共计19种。
三月十七日
史蒂文斯覆函先生，告知法斯预计五月份前往北平，建议届时先生与之面对面讨论。
March 17, 1947
Dear Dr. Yuan:
This past week I have seen Dr. Goodrich, and with Mr. Fahs of our office I have gathered many useful reports on circumstances of work in Peiping today. Now I have your own letter of March 7 on the morning when I intended to write to you. Many thanks for all the news in it.
The points that you list in reference to studies in Japanese, Russian, and Chinese will all be studied carefully by us. Also, tomorrow in Washington I will tell Mr. Graves of the news in the matter of translation. He has been working on plans to publish translations from Russian. He also will be much interested in the news you give of the large number of unusual Russian titles available in your Library for exchange in microfilm.
The most helpful way to get on with discussion of such general matters is by direct discussion, and I am glad that seems probable during the spring. Mr. Evans of the Social Sciences Division and Mr. Fahs expect to be in Peiping for some time, probably during May. Since the plans are not finally formed, exact word will not be possible to send very much in advance of their expected arrival. For that reason, the possibility of visit during May should not be taken literally for the time being. I wish that I were to be with them at the time of this visit.
My kindest regards to you.
Sincerely yours,
David H. Stevens
〔Rockefeller Foundation. Series 601: China; Subseries 601. R: China-Humanities and Arts. Vol. Box 47. Folder 391〕
按：Mr. Evans即Roger F. Evans，时任洛克菲勒基金会社科部副主任。
三月十九日
布朗覆函先生，已经寄出浙江大学所需农业出版品、实验室记录等，如果北京大学需要某些老旧期刊，他将努力协助补配，对先生辞去英美捐赠图书期刊分配委员会秘书职务表示遗憾。
March 19, 1947
My dear Dr. Yuan:
I have received your letter of March 5. I have received so many requests from Chinese colleges and universities that it will be impossible for them all to be satisfied. We have packed one box of books, agricultural publications, Experiment Station Records, etc., which was sent to your Committee for trans-shipment to National Chekiang University, Hangchow. The President of the university is now in this country and promised to get out the volumes of the Experiment Station Record to him, together with some bound copies of the Bulletins of State Experiment Stations.
I have been told that the National University of Peking has had difficulty in building up its agricultural library. If they desire some older agricultural publications, files of Experiment Station Record, etc., will you please let me know and I shall earmark some boxes direct from this library to National University of Peking, by way of your Committee.
I had a bad accident which sent me to the hospital for a few weeks, but I am now recovering and expect to spend the next two or three weeks in the East.
We have just received a long list of missing volumes of periodicals from the University of Shanghai. We may try to fill in some of these missing volumes.
It would be very unfortunate if you resigned as Secretary of the Committee. In another six months, the bulk of shipments will be over, and probably by next Fall we can start our exchange shipments through the Smithsonian. The work of allotting books is sure to be filled with difficulty, and all that you can do is to make as fair a distribution as possible.
Yours very truly,
Charles H. Brown, Chairman
Committee on the Orient and Southwest Pacific
〔The American Library Association Archives, China Projects File, Box 2, Books for China, Correspondence, 1947〕
按：此为抄件。
三月二十日
平馆向教育部发代电一件，题为《建议天津日本花园图书馆拟由国立南开大学接收整理》，具先生名并钤印。
教育部钧鉴：
案奉社字第一〇二二三号代电略开：以据视察员报告天津日本花园图书馆旧藏中西日文图书甚富，现该处为警备司令部借用，图书则归市府教育局保管，惟以缺乏专款，无人驻馆，图书常被窃失。拟请将该馆收归国有，拨款派员保管等情，合亟电仰该馆速派专家，会同天津市教育局点验整理具报，其经费准予报部核发等因。奉此，当由职于三月三日赴津，会同天津市教育局李秘书天贵及第三科曾科长葆清前往视察，经查该馆藏书遗失甚夥，馆舍复为津沧绥靖区党政军联席会报秘书处所借用。既属军事区域，教育局方面实无法派人前往查验整理，因即面晤杜市长建时、林警备司令伟涛，请将该秘书处即日迁让。一方面并请当局制止再有盗窃情事发生，同时与教育局洽议，期谋一永久办法。据教育局表示，该局直辖之天津市立图书馆，其经常费每月仅拨三万元，实无余力再接收其他图书馆，所言当系实情。经职慎重考虑，拟向钧部建议：
（一）由钧部委托国立南开大学接收整理，即在日本公园原址公开阅览，以免迁移。
（二）由该大学成立图书委员会，聘天津市长及教育局长暨地方人士为委员，主持进行事宜。
（三）由钧部电天津市政府及警备司令部，请将津沧绥靖区党政军联席会报秘书处另行迁移，以便南开大学接收房屋（另由后门出入，与警备司令部之间可筑一墙隔离之），一俟该大学接收完毕，职馆可派专家一二人赴津协助整理。奉电前因，理合将视察情形及建议各节特电呈复，伏乞鉴核施行，实为公便。
国立北平图书馆馆长袁同礼寅号叩（馆印）
〔中国第二历史档案馆，教育部档案·全卷宗5，国立北平图书馆请拨员工学术研究补助费经常费有关文书，案卷号11616（4）〕
按：4月9日，朱家骅批复“拟如此办理”。
三月二十一日
中华图书馆协会撰《呈请增加补助费以维持出版刊物由》，具先生名并钤印。〔台北“国史馆”，〈中国图书馆协会请补助（教育部）〉，数位典藏号019-030508-0015〕
按：3月底，教育部批准此请，在本年度社教事业费内一次性拨给补助费壹百万元。
三月二十二日
上午十一时，故宫博物院理事会在平理事第三次谈话会在该院绛雪轩召开，陈垣、胡适出席，马衡、沈兼士、先生、张庭济、徐悲鸿、邓以蛰、启功列席。会议报告徐森玉在沪觅得宋版《四明志》一册，正在议价收购；讨论米芾尺牍等书画是否收购。〔《马衡年谱长编》，页943-944〕
按：徐悲鸿、邓以蛰、启功三人为专门委员。
三月二十九日
下午四时，中法汉学研究所举行茶话会，招待Prabodh Chandra Bagchi教授，邀请向达、邵循正、Rudolf Löewenthal、陈垣、王静如、先生作陪。该所理事长杜伯秋负责招待一切。〔《民国日报》（天津），1947年3月29日，第4版〕
按：Prabodh Chandra Bagchi（1898-1956），印度汉学家，佛教研究专家，中文名师觉月，1920年获得加尔各答大学硕士学位，后赴法国，跟随伯希和、马伯乐、布洛克（Jules Bloch, 1880-1953）等人学习，1944年出版其重要著作India and China: a thousand years of cultural relations（《印度与中国》）。Rudolf Löewenthal（1904-1996），中文名罗文达，生于德国什未林（Schwerin），1933年获柏林大学经济学博士学位，1934年来华在燕京大学任教，曾著有The Religious Periodical Press in China，时在康乃尔大学任教。
四月一日
先生致信朱家骅，请教育部为汪德昭开具推荐信。
骝先部长尊鉴：
敬陈者，联合国教育科学文化组织之科学部，现由英人尼德汉博士主持，渠近约留法研究生汪德昭君前往该部工作，惟按前例须由我方教育当局推荐方合手续。兹将汪君来电录副奉上，即希钧阅。汪君留法十五载，专研物理学，为郎之万教授之高足，著作甚多，以足充任斯职，定能胜任。又该组织设在巴黎，往返接洽多用法文，汪君精于法语，亦可协助钧部作联络工作。倘荷惠允，拟请钧座电嘱陈通伯先生正式提出。闻四月十号即将开会决定也。专此奉恳，敬候道祺。
〔国家图书馆档案，档案编号1945-※057-综合5-005005〕
按：“尼德汉”即李约瑟（Joseph Needham, 1900-1995）。“陈通伯”即陈源，时任国民政府驻联合国教科文组织首任代表，常驻巴黎。此件为先生亲笔，无落款，旁注有“寄顾斗南”字样，4月1日发，应由平馆驻京办事处主任顾斗南转呈朱家骅。
先生致信胡适，告知前为北京大学垫付博物馆学应用器械款项、韩寿萱垫付运费，请赐还美金。
适之先生尊鉴：
奉到两示，感谢不尽。博物馆学应用器械各件，敝处曾垫付美金捌佰肆拾元壹角叁分，又韩寿萱君垫付运费美金贰拾捌元，拟请分别写纽约支票，便中赐下至感。至由沪运平之运费已请中国旅行社开列清单，容再奉寄。先此，敬颂道祺。
同礼顿首
四月一日
敝馆之款请写National Library of Peiping，抬头$840.13。
〔国立北平图书馆用笺。《胡适遗稿及秘藏书信》第31册，页639〕
按：此信暂系于此。
四月三日
平馆向教育部呈文一件，题为《呈报尊令向国立沈阳博物院洽领清实录全书经过情形请鉴核备案》，具先生名并钤平馆印。
案奉社字第九二二四号代电略开：本部接收之《清实录》决定分配于各重要教育文化机关，兹分配该馆一部，仰径向国立沈阳博物院筹备委员会洽领具报为要等因。奉此，当即遵令函达该会，查照邮寄去后，旋准函复，先汇邮递包扎等费，即行寄书等语。复经本馆照汇邮递等费。兹由该会将《清实录》全书一百二十二函如数寄到。经查无误，除函复该会外，理合具文呈报，伏乞鉴核备案，实为公便。
谨呈
教育部
国立北平图书馆馆长袁同礼（馆印）
中国第二历史档案馆，教育部档案·全卷宗5，国立北平图书馆请拨员工学术研究补助费经常费有关文书，案卷号11616（4）
按：该呈文应于4月3日发出。
四月四日
下午二时，故宫博物院在会议室举行复员后第二次会议，马衡、沈兼士、先生、张庭济、张德泽、章乃炜、何澄一、黄鹏霄、王世襄、吴荣华（许协澄代）、刘鸿逵、王孝缙、常惠出席。报告第六（七）届理事会第二次会议记录等八项事宜，此外讨论九项议案。先生在临时动议环节，提出本院应聘请法律顾问，议决通过。〔《马衡年谱长编》，页947-949〕
任鸿隽覆函先生，告知中基会本年补助平馆购书费用不便挪用，并谈顾临去世。
守和吾兄大鉴：
顷奉三月卅一日手示，敬悉种切。本会补助贵馆之美金，原系两项：一为购书费，当由本会拨付；一为影印专门论文费，由本会前补助东方图书馆余款项下拨付，此款现存顾临先生处。顾临先生逝世，须待清理后始得知此款下落。至购书费三千元，当即缄在美会计先拨半数（一千五百元），交Chase Bank存贵馆帐中备用。唯因敝会会计现在交替中，何时可以签发此款，颇难预料。最好请兄暂勿支用，俟敝处得到美方通知时再行动用可也。
关于运回存美之期刊事，敝意以为最好在他处筹措运费。本会本年补助贵馆之三千美金，指定为购书之用，若用作运费，查帐时恐将发生问题，尊意想以为然。分配美赠书籍，原极烦难。闻教部近组织接收整理委员会，由蒋慰堂、朱国璋两君主持，专办接收及整理事宜。将来分配时，是否由原分配委员会主持，此时尚不明了。中基金对于此事素未参与，此时自不便强为出头。弟此次返国后，偶与教部及适之先生谈及此事，盖因在美时曾得Dr. Brown专诚拜托，代为传达，希望公平分配于公私各学术机关（尤注意教会学校）之意。至何人主持此事，弟拟不过问。如兄仍任分配委员会事，则拟请兄早为催促进行，以免夜长梦多，使捐书者更为失望也。
顾临先生忽尔溘逝，实公私各方不可弥补之大损失，此后欲再觅一美国友人如渠之竭忠尽虑以为我国，何可得耶？关于渠所经手之各事件，弟本请兄另行觅人代管，俾免损彼健康。兹则此层已不成问题，未了各事非由尊处直接处理不可矣。余不备悉。此颂春祺。
弟任鸿隽顿首
卅六年四月四日
〔《北京图书馆馆史资料汇编（1909-1949）》，页875-877〕
David Shavit，The United States in Asia: a historical dictionary, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1990, pp. 200-201.
按：1947年3月27日，顾临在佛罗里达西棕榈滩（West Palm Beach）病逝。
朱国璋（1913-1981），字仲谋，浙江吴兴人，上海商学院毕业，赴英留学，获伯明翰大学商学士学位，归国后曾在中央大学任教，时任上海商学院院长。
四月九日
朱家骅覆函先生，已遵嘱托推荐汪德昭出任联合国教育科学文化组织科学部工作。
守和吾兄大鉴：
顷获本月一日手书，忻聆种切。尼德汉博士近约汪德昭均前往联合国教育科学文化组织科学部工作一节，重以台嘱。经电请陈通伯兄，即为正式提出并为促成矣。知注特复，顺颂时祺。
弟朱家骅顿首
四月九日
〔国家图书馆档案，档案编号1945-※057-综合5-005006〕
按：此件为打字稿，落款处为朱家骅签名。
Jessie Lou Tyler覆函先生，告知法斯已前往远东地区。
April 9, 1947
Dear Mr. Yuan:
Mr. Stevens has asked me to acknowledge and thank you for your letter of March 11 concerning the Quarterly Bulletin of Chinese Bibliography. Mr. Charles B. Fahs, Assistant Director for the Humanities, is now on his way to the Far East and plans to be in Peiping sometime around the latter part of April and first part of May. He now plans to visit the National Library of Peiping and will call on you sometime during his stay there.
Sincerely yours,
Jessie Lou Tyler
Secretary to Mr. Fahs
〔Rockefeller Foundation. Series 601: China; Subseries 601. R: China-Humanities and Arts. Vol. Box 47. Folder 391〕
按：此件为录副。
布朗覆函先生，因美国图书馆协会为中国各大学、院校编制采购书刊目录费用超出预算，请求中国政府额外支付一千美金。
April 9, 1947
Dear Dr. Yuan:
It has been a great satisfaction to the International Relations Board of the American Library Association to know that the selection of purchase bibliographies for Chinese universities has proceeded so well. In fact, we are informed the other day that the Ministry of Education had recommended that these bibliographies be used for the universities of China in place of incomplete and outdated bibliographies supplied without proper bibliographic checking. We are sincerely pleased to know that we have contributed in some sense to the rehabilitation of educational life in the universities and are most anxious to complete this bibliographic task for you.
We have completed twenty-one bibliographies which we have listed on the attached sheet. At the present time, we have eight bibliographies to complete, namely, Drama, Political Science, Law, Music, Fine Arts, Pharmacy, Natural Science, and Merchant Marine. In some instances, the consultants are still working on the lists, for example, the Merchant Marine and Natural Science lists.
It is quite true that the work of compiling these bibliographies would have been completed by at least the end of March if additional funds had been available; however, the cost of preparing these bibliographies has already exceeded to original $2,000.00 budget by $500.00. Therefore, it will require $1,000.00 to cover the $500.00 deficit incurred and the $500.00 for the cost of final operation. The International Relations Office of the American Library Association regrets that it has been forced to stop the project until additional funds are received, as the general office budget is simply not able to absorb these expenses.
It is not our intention to place an additional strain upon you or your committee; but we are sure you will realize that this request for additional funds will barely cover the cost of preparation of lists, mimeographing, clerical assistance, and postage, and does not include the professional direction of the office which the International Relations Board is only too happy to contribute.
The American Library Association believes that these bibliographies are of far more lasting value because of careful consideration and preparation and would like to resume work as promptly as possible in order that your work with the Chinese universities may move forward.
Hoping to hear from you very soon, I remain,
Yours very sincerely,
Charles H. Brown
Chairman
Committee on the Orient and Southwest Pacific
〔The American Library Association Archives, China Projects File, Box 2, Chinese Universities, Correspondence, 1946-1947〕
按：该函寄送北平，此为抄件。
四月十日
先生致信史蒂文斯，提交有关苏俄研究中心的翻译计划并期待与法斯会晤。
April 10, 1947
Dear Dr. Stevens:
I am much obliged to you for your letter of March 17 and for the information you gave me.
Concerning our work in translating Russian documents relating to Sino-Russian relations, I enclose herewith a tentative plan. I have sent a copy to Professor Robinson at Columbia and I have shown it to Dr. Michael of the University of Washington, who is now visiting Peiping and who is very much interested in our work. Prof. Robert A. Jelliffe of Oberlin College is lecturing at the National University. He says he will write to inform you how little of our academic life is affected by the political situation-a matter which is not much understood by most Americans.
We have moved our Russian Research Center to the Rocky Garden in the Winter Palace, and I now enclose a snapshot of this garden. It is a most picturesque spot in Peiping, and I am sure you would enjoy it when you come to this city.
I am leaving for Nanking next week and I expect to meet Mr. Evans and Dr. Fahs in Shanghai if they will come in May.
With cordial regards,
Sincerely yours,
T. L. Yuan
Director
〔国立北平图书馆英文信纸。Rockefeller Foundation. Series 601: China; Subseries 601. R: China-Humanities and Arts. Vol. Box 47. Folder 391〕
王洞主编《夏志清夏济安书信集》卷1，台北：联经出版事业公司，2016年，页30。
按：Professor Robinson待考；Dr. Michael应指Franz H. Michael（1907-1992），德裔美籍中国学家，时在华盛顿大学（西雅图）任教；Robert A. Jelliffe（1883-1970），中文名为真立夫，时在北京大学任客座教授，后曾协助夏志清留美。
此件为打字稿，落款处为先生签名，另附有1页计划书，于5月6日送达。
四月十一日
米来牟覆函先生，告知美国图书馆协会国际关系委员会对先生建议美国图书馆编目专家来华考察并指导工作的计划持积极态度。
April 11, 1947
Dear Dr. Yuan:
Your renewal of the suggestion that a cataloger be sent to China-your letter of February 13-has been brought to the attention of the International Relations Board and the International Relations Office. It was also specifically mentioned in a letter to the Rockefeller Foundation asking for another grant for the interchange of persons. We have not yet had a report of notion by the R. F.
We all hope that we may find it possible to cooperate with you in the way suggested. Maybe we can take advantage of the Fulbright Act for this if we don't get private funds.
Cordially yours
Carl H. Milam
Executive Secretary
〔The American Library Association Archives, China Projects File, Box 2, Books for China, 1944-47, Folder 1〕
按：该函寄送北平，此件为录副。
四月十六日
先生致信纳尔逊·洛克菲勒，请其考虑资助北平市政府修复历史古迹。
April 16, 1947
Dear Mr. Rockefeller:
In spite of my long silence, I have often been thinking of you. I trust that Mrs. Rockefeller and your children are all doing well. When you have occasion to write, will you kindly send me a snapshot of your family?
Since I had the pleasure of seeing you at the San Francisco Conference, I have been travelling in Europe, collecting scientific literature for this Library. Upon my return to Peiping last December, I found that our Library was intact and the Japanese did not do much damage.
With the rapid flow of books and periodicals from Europe and the United States, our stack room is now filled up. In order to relieve the congestion, we have bought the premises of the famous Rocky Garden and its attached buildings. Unfortunately, these buildings were badly damaged by the war and it now costs a great deal to have them restored to their original splendor.
In view of your father's interest in the restoration of Williamsburg, VA., I wonder whether he would be similarly interested in assisting us to restore some of the historical buildings in Peiping. I now enclose three photographs of the damaged buildings, including the Buddhist Temple, known as Tien Wang Dian, the restoration of which would cost US $100,000.
It is gratifying to report that the Chinese government has already spent about US $150,000 for the restoration of historical buildings in Peiping, including the Temple of Heaven, the Confucius Temple, the Lama Temple, etc. but in view of the vastness of our need, we have to depend upon private donations.
A special committee for the Restoration of Historical Buildings was set up last year, and I am serving as a member of the Executive Committee. The other members are the Mayor of Peiping, Dr. Hu Shih, Prof. Ma Heng and Mr. Chu Chi-chien, ex-Minister of the Interior.
I shall be most grateful to you if you could find out from your father whether the above project would be of any possible interest to him. If he would give half of the estimated cost of $100,000, our Committee will raise the other half in China.
In the interest of preserving the cultural heritage of the Orient, I am taking the liberty of writing to you, and I hope that we may count upon you for your interest and assistance.
In spite of political instability, scientific and cultural work in China goes forward. I hope you and Mrs. Rockefeller will find it possible to pay us a visit before very long.
With kindest regards,
Sincerely yours,
T. L. Yuan
Director
〔国立北平图书馆英文信纸。Rockefeller Foundation, Nelson A. Rockefeller Personal Papers. Box 22 Folder 173〕
按：Williamsburg即威廉斯堡市，是美国历史最悠久的城市之一，1926年约翰·洛克菲勒（John Davison Rockefeller, Jr.，1874-1960）斥巨资恢复该市18世纪的风貌，持续数十年才得以完工；Tien Wang Dian应指北海公园西天梵境中的天王殿，始建于明朝。Mr. Chu Chi-chien即朱启钤。此件为打字稿，落款处为先生签名，于5月初送达。
四月十九日
下午三时，故宫博物院第六（七）届理事会在平理事在绛雪轩召开第四次谈话会议，陈垣、李书华出席，马衡、先生、张庭济、张伯驹、徐悲鸿、邓以哲、启功、张允亮、赵万里、王重民列席。〔《马衡年谱长编》，页950〕
四月二十四日
Marshall C. Balfour覆函先生，告知法斯的行程，自己因回国无法陪同其前往北平。
April 24, 1947
Dear Dr. Yuan:
Yours of April 12, in reference to Mr. Fahs's visit, was appreciated and has been called to his attention. I have asked Miss Ferguson to keep you informed of his plans, which are now to arrive by CNAC May 2nd, at least temporarily putting up at the Wagons-Lits Hotel. He looks forward to his Peking visit with great enthusiasm.
Unfortunately, I can not join him and Mr. Evans on this visit, since I am leaving with Mrs. Balfour on May 8 for the United States. During my year's absence, Dr. Robert Briggs Watson will assume responsibility of this office, and I trust you will become acquainted in due course.
With cordial regards,
Very truly yours,
M. C. Balfour
〔Rockefeller Foundation. Series 601: China; Subseries 601. R: China-Humanities and Arts. Vol. Box 47. Folder 391〕
按：CNAC即中国航空公司（China National Aviation Corporation）。
四月二十五日
晚，中国政治学会举行理事会，先生为会议主席，陈岱孙、张德熙、鲍文、Heinrich Kroes、范因博士、钱端升等理事出席，胡适、洪业、吴文藻等因事未到。讨论事项有，鲍文因在抗战期间囚于潍县集中营，后又筹备协和医学院恢复，身体不堪重负，请辞补选他人；本会自五月起恢复定期学术演讲，其范围集中于法政、经济。〔《华北日报》，1947年4月27日，第5版〕
按：1915年12月5日，该会由陆征祥倡导成立，会员多为各大学教授，后有会员二百余人。抗战中，损失藏书甚多，1945年12月18日收回一万六千余册。张德熙，字柳池，广东香山人，清末赴美留学，入威斯康星大学，归国后曾任财政部秘书。Heinrich Kroes（1903-1989），生于荷兰，中文名胡鲁士，1934年起在北平辅仁大学执教，授历史学课程，时任该校教务长。“范因博士”应为西人，待考。
四月二十七日
清华大学校庆，各地校友纷纷赶来参加，胡适、查良钊、先生等六百余人到场。〔《大公报》（上海），1947年4月28日，第4版〕
按：梅贻琦、胡适在纪念会上呼吁校友踊跃捐款，以解经费不足。
四月三十日
《此心安处是吾乡：季羡林归国日记（1946-1947）》（排印本）记作Jellife，实应为Jelliffe。
中午，胡适在松公府蔡先生纪念堂设宴，真立夫
、师觉月、Bura、先生、梅贻宝、朱光潜、汤用彤、季羡林、王岷源等受邀出席。〔《此心安处是吾乡：季羡林归国日记（1946-1947）》，页200〕
按：王岷源（1912-2000），四川巴县人，1934年毕业于清华大学外文系，旋赴美入耶鲁大学英文系学习，时应在北京大学任教。Bura，待考。
五月一日
某记者来访，先生谈国际图书馆协会第十三届年会，如经费无着，拟请国民政府驻挪威使馆代办雷孝敏出席。此外，先生还介绍了平馆苏俄研究室筹备情况。〔《世界日报》，1947年5月2日，第3版；《经世日报》，1947年5月2日，第4版〕
按：本届年会在挪威首都举办，会期定于5月20日至22日。雷孝敏，字叔礼，广东台山人，1910年官费留美。
五月二日
先生赴机场迎接美国洛克菲勒基金会人文部副主任法斯、社会科学部副主任Roger F. Evans。〔Charles B. Fahs'Diary, Rockefeller Archive Center, Rockefeller Foundation records, Officers'Diaries, RG 12〕
先生致信陈梦家，建议短期访英，并告陈源联系方式。
梦家吾兄：
奉到四月十八日手教，欣悉种切。中德外交关系一时不易恢复，前曾建议由政府派台端赴德接收铜器，此时尚嫌过早。敝意不如先行返国，俟将来有机会时再行赴欧。如此时愿由美短期赴英一行，往返川资约四百元及在英两月住宿旅行约四百元，可托人向British Council设法补助，似可由尊处函附介绍函陈通伯源先生。以前杨金甫、汪敬熙赴英均British Council招待，惟目前由美赴英及由英返美，订购船票均属不易，似宜早办是荷。敝馆经费困难，已向北大借款，勉维现状，更不易购到外汇也。余容再陈，顺颂旅安。
弟同礼顿首
五月二日
陈通伯通讯处
Dr. Chen Yuan
Sino-British Cultural Association
62 New Cavendish Street, London, W. 1.
〔方继孝藏札〕
五月四日
中午，先生在北海北门等候法斯、Roger F. Evans，陪同其参观平馆新获的俄语文献、日伪史料，后在仿膳用餐，饭后又至静心斋看该批文献，后北京大学真立夫和邓嗣禹来此一同拣阅。〔Charles B. Fahs'Diary, Rockefeller Archive Center, Rockefeller Foundation records, Officers'Diaries, RG 12〕
按：法斯认为这些史料文献作为初具规模的专藏已属不易，且有相当价值。
五月五日
于震寰致函先生，代教育部索取此前商洽美国图书馆专家赴华考察费用公函。
守和先生馆长钧鉴：
六月十三日我公在美所收朱部长同意美国图书馆专家来华考察，并允资助美金三千元函稿，部中百觅不得，祈将原函寄下，俾便持示主管拟办，用毕仍以奉还也。专陈，顺颂道绥。
于震寰谨上
卅六年五月五日
〔国家图书馆档案，档案编号1947-※046-外事5-001002〕
五月六日
下午，季羡林来平馆借书，并拜访先生。〔《此心安处是吾乡：季羡林归国日记（1946-1947）》，页204〕
《此心安处是吾乡：季羡林归国日记（1946-1947）》，页172、205。
按：本年3月4日，季羡林、王森二人在平馆找到了藏文《甘殊尔》。5月8日，季羡林将此书从平馆取走。
五月八日
上午十时，先生偕法斯、Roger F. Evans前往太庙查看此前收缴的日伪图书，随后赴平馆参观。中午，马衡、先生、胡适在故宫博物院设宴招待法斯、Evans，沈兼士、王世襄等人作陪。席间，马衡请法斯考虑资助故宫博物院一套照相复制设备和一台珂罗版印刷机，以复制故宫博物院的藏品（影像）与其他博物馆交换。法斯表示暂时不会考虑该项计划，因为中国局面尚未稳定，现在资助有相当风险。此外，他对王世襄印象非常好，考虑给予他奖学金赴美学习博物馆方法和组织。〔Charles B. Fahs'Diary, Rockefeller Archive Center, Rockefeller Foundation records, Officers'Diaries, RG 12〕
按：法斯认为平馆藏书十分丰富，但尚无读者和研究人员利用，这一问题主要由于北平地区教育机构尚未完全恢复。
晚六时许，南开大学北平校友会假银行公会欢迎张伯苓，梅贻琦、先生、石志仁、李麟玉、郑华炽等八十二人出席。七时半，韩振华致辞，继由严仁英致欢迎词，后由张伯苓致训。会中公布校友会执委选举结果，梅贻琦、韩振华等十一人当选，先生则位列三位候补委员之一。〔《民国日报》（天津），1947年5月9日，第4版〕
按：石志仁（1897-1972），河北乐亭人，铁路机械专家，南开中学毕业，时应任平津区铁路管理局局长。严仁英（1913-2017），女，医学家，严修孙女。
Jessie Lou Tyler覆函先生，告知史蒂文斯已收到四月十日的信件。
May 8, 1947
Dear Mr. Yuan:
Mr. Stevens has asked me to thank you for your letter of April 10 with the enclosed Plan for Publication of Documents on Sino-Russian Relations and the snapshot of the Rocky Garden in the Winter Palace.
Doubtless you have already talked with Mr. Fahs during his visit in Peiping.
Sincerely yours,
Jessie Lou Tyler
Secretary to Mr. Fahs
〔Rockefeller Foundation. Series 601: China; Subseries 601. R: China-Humanities and Arts. Vol. Box 47. Folder 391〕
按：该函以航空信方式寄送，此件为录副。
五月九日
晚，先生在家设宴款待法斯、Roger F. Evans，何廉、李书华夫妇、康乃尔大学教授Edwin Arthur Burtt等人受邀作陪。饭后，先生陪同法斯前往中国政治学会，Edwin Arthur Burtt在会上作有关印度的演讲。〔Charles B. Fahs'Diary, Rockefeller Archive Center, Rockefeller Foundation records, Officers'Diaries, RG 12〕
按：法斯对先生印象颇佳，认为“Yuan is the nearest to an American promoter I have met in China”。
纳尔逊·洛克菲勒覆函先生，婉拒此前向洛克菲勒基金会申请资助修复北平名胜古迹。
May 9, 1947
Dear Mr. Yuan:
Thank you for your thoughtful letter of April sixteenth. It was a pleasure to have news of you, and to learn that the Library came through the war so well.
I wish that I could send you an encouraging response as to the possibility of Father being helpful in connection with the proposed restorations in Peiping. As I know you will understand, however, with the increasingly heavy demands made on him by the responsibilities he is carrying, he is obliged more than ever to follow certain limiting principles in connection with personal commitments. In view of the extent of the work at Williamsburg, which is not yet finished, he has felt that he must ask to be excused from taking up the many interesting proposals along similar lines which he received, sympathetic though he may be with their objectives, and regrets that he could not make an exception even in this instance.
If I could be of any assistance myself, your own interest in the work would add to my natural sympathy with the values it involves, but the program I have already taken on is so heavy that it would not be possible for me to add to it in this way.
With best wishes for the success of the project, and kindest personal regards in which Mrs. Rockefeller joins me,
Sincerely,
Nelson A. Rockefeller
P. S. Thinking you might like to have them back, I am returning the photographs you enclosed.
〔Rockefeller Foundation, Nelson A. Rockefeller Personal Papers. Box 22 Folder 173〕
按：此件为录副。
五月上旬
齐如山、先生、梅兰芳、王向宸、梁实秋、陈纪滢等提倡设立国剧学会，并函请何思源、杜建时、焦菊隐、萧一山、张道藩、卢冀野、沈兼士、孙楷第等三十二人共同发起。〔《华北日报》，1947年5月13日，第4版〕
按：先生曾为该会谋划新地，并商故宫博物院借给霞公府南夹道宅院，作为学会及陈列馆址。
五月十日
下午五时许，叶企孙、先生、郑华炽、贺麟、郑昕、冯至、杨业治、张星烺、季羡林等人在板厂胡同中德学会开会，讨论该社团的存续问题。〔《此心安处是吾乡：季羡林归国日记（1946-1947）》，页206〕
五月十二日
先生撰写备忘录，向洛克菲勒基金会申请资助平馆建立缩微胶卷实验室。
With the assistance of the Rockefeller Foundation, a Draeger camera, together with other apparatus, was installed in the P. U. M. C. in 1940-41. Unfortunately, a few days after Pearl Harbour, it was removed by the Japanese Army. Since V-J day much search has been conducted in Peiping and in Tokyo, but without any success. It is generally supposed that it had been destroyed by the Japanese at the time of their surrender.
Since only a small portion of the rare Chinese books in the collection of the National Library of Peiping had been microfilmed at Washington, it is most desirable that other rare items in its collection should also be microfilmed. In addition to these rare books, there are many important manuscript materials of historical value in the possession of the National Library and the National Palace Museum which should be made available to scholars. For this reason, a photoduplication laboratory is urgently needed in Peiping.
The object of the laboratory is not only to assure the protection of valuable and irreparable historical materials, but also to make available to sinological scholars at home and abroad important source materials for research.
The National Library of Peiping has an outstanding collection of western scientific journals. Libraries and research institutions in China, which cannot afford to purchase these journals, depend upon the National Library to supply films for certain articles or for certain issues needed in connection with their research. If the photoduplication laboratory could be set up, it would enable the Library to supply microcopies of research materials wanted by scholars both in China and another country.
A memorandum to this effect was submitted to the Rockefeller Foundation on March 20, 1945. A detailed estimate of the approximate cost for setting up the Laboratory from Mr. Eugene Power of the University Microfilms, Inc. was submitted to the Foundation in May 1946. Since then, the cost of microfilm equipment in the United States has increased considerably. It is estimated that a grant of $15,000 would be required for the purchase and shipment of the equipment as listed by Mr. Power. If financial support for this project could be given by the Foundation, the National Library will seek further advice from Mr. Power, who has agreed to come to Peiping, at his own expense, to assist in setting up the Laboratory and in the training of technical personnel.
Respectfully submitted
T. L. Yuan
Director
May 12, 1947
〔Rockefeller Foundation. Series 601: China; Subseries 601. R: China-Humanities and Arts. Vol. Box 47. Folder 393〕
按：此件为打字稿，落款处为先生签名。该备忘录应附在14日先生写给法斯的信中。
五月十四日
中午十二时，平津国立院校长谈话会在北海静心斋举行，先生、梅贻琦、郑天挺、金问洙、袁敦礼、黎锦熙、李麟玉、李书华等人出席，先生应为会议主席。会议先就上次会谈所决定之事项进行情形及目前各校一般情况予以报告，交换意见后即午餐。下午一时，继续开会，讨论四项议案。一是各院校每月对公费发给之粮价折款如何确定；二是应请教部普遍提高各级教员待遇；三是各院校经常费不敷甚剧，请教部将各院校经常费最低限度提高六倍；四是下次会议定于六月十一日在大字典编纂处举行谈话会。〔《民国日报》（天津），1947年5月15日，第4版〕
下午四时，平馆召开复员后第一次馆务会议，先生、王访渔、王重民、赵万里、顾子刚、王祖彝出席。先生作为会议主席，报告以下诸事：
（一）每月第二个星期三下午召开馆务会议，由先生召集各组主任、秘书及文书股长举行；
（二）本日平津院校联合会议情形；
（三）洛克菲勒基金会即将派法斯来平视察，平馆向该会申请两项补助金，共计三万美元。
此后，馆务会议议决以下各案：俸薪调整、职员增加底薪、太庙临时工作职员调整后的待遇、何国贵抚恤、傅增湘捐赠批校本向教部申请奖励、接收各汉奸书籍、洛克菲勒基金会捐赠拍摄设备安置、李耀南薪俸增补。〔《北京图书馆馆史资料汇编（1909-1949）》，页878-882〕
先生覆信于震寰，寄上此前代部索要有关公私函件。
镜宇仁兄大鉴：
五月五日大函，备悉一是。兹将六月十三日朱部长致弟原函寄上，即希台阅，用毕交还为盼。又部长同意资助美图书专家美金三千元一节，弟前接美图书馆协会来函，云此款寄到即可派员来华等语，业已据函转陈，并以附及。专复，即颂时祺。
附原函一件。
袁〇〇拜启
〔国家图书馆档案，档案编号1947-※046-外事5-001001〕
按：此为文书所拟底稿，注明5月14日发，暂系于此。
先生致信法斯，附两份备忘录，并告知中基会和教育部向平馆拨付了相当数量的美金。
May 14, 1947
Dear Mr. Fahs:
It is most gratifying to find that you take so much personal interest in the work of the National Library. I now enclose herewith two memoranda: ⑴re the Photoduplication Laboratory, and（2）re the development of our Research Program. I hope you will forward them for us to Dr. Stevens.
In a day or two I shall write to Dr. Stevens stating that for carrying out these projects the National Library is ready to set aside an equal amount of money covered by the Foundation's grant. For instance, the Ministry of Education has given us $10,000 and the China Foundation, $5,000. These two grants will match up the amount of the grant which we hope the Foundation will find it possible to make. At any rate, I hope that our joint efforts will assist us in the realization of our objective.
With many thanks,
Yours sincerely,
T. L. Yuan
P. S. I had a Chinese seal specially made for you as a souvenir of your visit. The inscription was carved by the famous artist, Mr. Chou Hsi-ting, of Peiping.
〔Rockefeller Foundation. Series 601: China; Subseries 601. R: China-Humanities and Arts. Vol. Box 47. Folder 391, Folder 393〕
按：Chou Hsi-ting即周希丁（1891-1961），原名周家瑞，江西金溪人，传拓专家，亦精于篆刻。此件为打字稿，落款处为先生签名。该信另附4页备忘录，涉及苏俄研究中心（Slavic Centre）、日本研究中心（Japanese Centre）、美国研究中心（American Centre）、《图书季刊》英文本四个方面。
Rae Cecilia Kipp致函先生，寄上美国图书馆协会向战区国家运送成套图书的报告，并告知客岁十二月六日启运书籍的相关信息。
May 14, 1947
Dear Dr. Yuan:
We are enclosing a report on the American Library Association shipment of the Libraries in War Areas set of books which was given to the libraries of China through the generosity of the Rockefeller Foundation. The cartons, numbering 102, were shipped through the auspices of UNRRA and left this country on December 6, 1946 on the boat, S. S. Hopepeak. The material was consigned to UNRRA with an indication that the material was intended for the Chinese Committee on the Distribution of Books.
We hope that this information will enable you to trace the shipment and that the libraries of China will soon have the opportunity of seeing the American publications of the war years. If any further information is needed in order to clarify your position as Chairman of this Committee in regard to the distribution of material, please do not hesitate to call on us for formal authorization.
Yours very sincerely,
Rae Cecilia Kipp
Executive Assistant
〔The American Library Association Archives, China Projects File, Box 2, Books for China, 1944-47, Folder 1〕
按：该函寄送北平，此件为录副。
五月中旬
王芸生至平馆，与先生、赵万里晤谈。〔《大公报》（天津），1947年6月22日，第3版；《大公报》（上海），1947年5月16日，第2版〕
按：5月13日下午2时，王芸生抵达北平，18日前往太庙保存日文图书处参观，21日中午返回天津。
五月十六日
先生致信史蒂文斯，恳请洛克菲勒基金会考虑资助平馆设立日本、苏俄、美国研究中心计划。
May 16, 1947
Dear Dr. Stevens:
We have had a most pleasant visit from Dr. Evans and Dr. Fahs. In the course of our conversations, I have had the opportunity of discussing with them the various phases of our work.
Since this Library has the advantage of having our prewar collection intact, we are now in a better position to develop our research program as outlined in the memorandum which I submitted to the Foundation through Dr. Fahs.
China's close relations with Japan, the Soviet Union and the United States demand the full development of better understanding of one another. I believe that our task in promoting closer cultural interchange through printed materials is an important contribution, although I am rather distressed at the slowness of the development in this country, since it seems so obvious that the distribution of our scholarly effort is so little commensurate with the needs of the second half of the twentieth century.
For the support of our program for 1947 we have received $10,000 from the Ministry of Education and $5,000 from the China Foundation. With these two grants we are able to have a good start.
I hope that similar support could be given by the Foundation, especially in view of our interest in the Far East. I am happy to say that whatever support the Foundation may be able to extend to us, it will be matched up by grants from the Chinese Government.
With sincere appreciation of your interest and assistance,
Yours sincerely,
T. L. Yuan
Director
〔国立北平图书馆英文信纸。Rockefeller Foundation. Series 601: China; Subseries 601. R: China-Humanities and Arts. Vol. Box 47. Folder 391〕
按：此件为打字稿，落款处为先生签名。
先生致信法斯，告知即将赴上海，期待在沪晤谈。
May 16, 1947
Dear Mr. Fahs:
I enclose my letter to Dr. Stevens. If you have not sent out the two memoranda, will you include this letter also?
I have just had word from the CNAC that reservations have been made for me on the plane leaving for Shanghai tomorrow. I shall look forward to seeing you in Shanghai.
Yours sincerely,
T. L. Yuan
Director
〔国立北平图书馆英文信纸。Rockefeller Foundation. Series 601: China; Subseries 601. R: China-Humanities and Arts. Vol. Box 47. Folder 391〕
按：此件为打字稿，落款处为先生签名。
五月十七日 北平—上海
下午三时，北海公园理事会举行第一次会议，先生、傅增湘、韩振华等十六人被推选为理事，另有候补理事五名。〔《华北日报》，1947年5月18日，第4版〕
按：先生被推选极有可能与静心斋属平馆有关。
先生由北平乘飞机南下。〔《益世报》（北平），1947年5月16日，第2版〕
按：先生对记者称，此行须三周时间，主要是向教育部报告馆务，出席中央研究院评议会、图书分配委员会。
晚，先生致信陈梦家，请其帮忙联系美国出版商并谈钱存训去美事。
梦家吾兄：
故宫博物院拟于秋间将所藏Jannings铜器委托美国商店出版（如R. R. Donnelley & Sons）。兹送上英文说明一份，请与Kelley或出版家一商。如能于印成后得到书若干部及版税，尤所企盼。想芝加哥近印之铜器目录其版税等可作援例也。敝处前介绍钱存训君至芝加哥大学主持编目事宜，渠已得到官员护照请转告Creel先生，约七月间可以启程。弟今日来沪，两日后北返。匆匆，顺颂大安。
弟袁同礼顿首
五，十七
芝加哥Graduate Library School之章程请告其寄弟一份。
〔方继孝藏札〕
Tsugio，Mikami.Monumenta Serica, Vol. 16, no. 1/2, 1957, pp. 508-512.
按：Jannings即Werner Jannings，德国商人，中文名为杨宁史，抗日战争期间，他在河南等地收购大量青铜器，后在王世襄、宋子文、沈兼士等人的多方努力下，该人于1946年将所藏铜器“呈献”故宫博物院，但要求专室展出并印行图录，后者由罗樾（Max Loehr）担任编辑、整理工作，本拟由《华裔学志》出版
，但因为时局因素中断，1956年由密歇根大学出版社初版，正式题名为Chinese Bronze Age Weapons: the Werner Jannings collection in the Chinese National Palace Museum, Peking。R. R. Donnelley，美国印刷公司，1864年在芝加哥成立。Kelley即Charles F. Kelley（1885-1960），美国艺术史专家，时应任芝加哥艺术博物馆（Art Institute of Chicago）东方部主任，与陈梦家一同编写Chinese Bronzes from the Buckingham Collection。钱存训离沪赴美时间约在9月中旬。
五月十九日
晚六时，徐森玉在来喜设宴，先生、严文郁、黄如今、郑振铎等与席。〔陈福康著《郑振铎年谱（修订本）》，上海：上海外语教育出版社，2017年，页1164〕
按：黄如今，湖南永兴人，时应任长春大学校长。
五月二十二日
英美赠书分配委员会致函各委员，告第二次会议时间地点。
径启者，美国捐赠之图书业已运抵上海，亟待将分配办法予以决定。兹定于本月廿五日（星期日）下午五时半在鸡鸣寺中央研究院举行本会第二次会议，即希准时莅临参加是荷。此致。
国立中央研究院英美赠书分配委员会谨启
五，廿二
〔国家图书馆档案，档案编号1946-※046-外事5-006026〕
按：此件为先生所拟之底稿，实发时间应为23日。
五月二十四日 南京
中华图书馆协会在京理事、监事假中央图书馆举行联席会议。李小缘、蒋复璁（缪镇藩代）、洪有丰、刘国钧、王文山（于震寰代）、汪长炳和徐家麟（陆华深代）、先生，柳诒徵（李恩渥代）、沈学植出席，其中先生为会议主席。首由常务干事于震寰报告会务，后讨论会费、增加收入、理监事任期、中国学术团体联合会年会等议案。〔《中华图书馆协会会报》第21卷第3-4期合刊，页5-6〕
五月二十五日
下午六时，中央研究院英美赠书分配委员会在该院会议室举行第二次会议，翁文灏主席、周鲠生、傅斯年、任鸿隽（先生代）、杭立武、先生、周鸿经出席，顾斗南记录。
先生报告事项：
（一）美国捐赠书籍经美国图书中心寄运到沪者共计一〇四一箱，在途中者共计二二五箱，尚有七五〇箱在美待运。
（二）由美寄沪书箱之运费向由联总担负，近接华盛顿中国物资供应委员会王守竞来电，内称联总结束工作在即，此项运费无法继续承担，在美待运之七五〇箱运费约美金四千六百元，美国图书中心建议由中国物资供应委员会暂行垫付以便继续起运，应否垫付请电覆。本会当即函请教育部核办，现教部已允担负此项运费，由部径电王守竞。
（三）英国捐赠之书共计二九七箱，亦委托联总寄运，因联总结束在即，已函托郑天锡大使转催速寄。
（四）美国图书馆协会捐赠之（1）学术期刊共一四二种，内一百种（每种二份至五份）已与教育部所订购者重复，此外之四十种系医学期刊，均未经教育部订购（每种二份至六份）；（2）一九四四年出版之新书一七八种每种四份，如何分配请公决。
随后，会议讨论事项：
（一）分配原则如何确定案。决议：本会分配各机关之图书以该机关能否充分利用为前提，同时本会应注意区域之分配，公推高等教育司司长周鸿经、先生参照各大学及独立学院现设之科系性质开列清单，并注明特殊需要，由本会委托上海提运清理处分发各院校。
（二）美国图书馆协会捐赠之期刊如何分配案。决议：（1）关于医学期刊分配于国立大学医学院及成绩优良之独立医学院，并有本会征求教育部医学教育委员之意见，以供参考；（2）关于教育部订购重复之期刊一部分分配于成绩优良之私立大学，一部分分配于教会大学，尤应注意其战前所订购之期刊种类，应在可能范围以内使之衔接，关于国际关系之期刊则分配于罗斯福图书馆。
（三）美国图书馆协会捐赠之新书一七八种如何分配案。决议：接受该会之建议，分配于南京、北平、武昌、广州四处之学术机关。
（四）美国图书中心捐赠之图书期刊如何分配案。决议：参照各大学、独立学院及国立研究院所设之科系性质将此批书籍尽先分配，其残缺不全之期刊则俟全部赠书到沪后再行分配，至关于教科书之分配应注意内地各院校之需要平均拨发，关于参考书之分配应调查各国立图书馆实际需要酌予分配。
（五）美方赠书如何致谢案。决议：由翁文灏主任函谢美国图书馆协会、美国图书中心及洛克菲勒基金会。
七时散会。〔国家图书馆档案，档案编号1946-※046-外事5-006028至1946-※046-外事5-006031〕
五月二十七日
平馆向教育部呈文一件，题为《造送本馆三十五年度京沪渝昆部生补费计算表等件请鉴核》，具先生名并钤印。〔中国第二历史档案馆，教育部档案·全卷宗五，国立北平图书馆员工生活补助费名册及俸薪表，案卷号11614（1）〕
按：“生补费”应指生活补助费，下同。
五月
先生向教育部提交呈文一件，题为《呈报点收傅增湘先生捐赠手校各种书籍请转呈行政院优加褒奖并酌给养老医药等费》。〔台北“国史馆”，〈北平图书馆总卷〉，数位典藏号019-030402-0003〕
按：此次捐赠共计373种4269册，5月5日平馆派员前往点收，拟专室庋藏、永存纪念。先生认为此批古籍价值极高，特呈教育部请转呈行政院予以褒奖，后又多次与英千里面谈，恳请协助。8月中旬行政院下达指令，由政府颁发匾额并饬财政部拨给奖金四千万元。该件为文书代笔，钤先生名章，关防页不存，附捐赠手校书籍清单一册。
六月初
先生赴上海，协助中央研究院分配英美赠送中国之书刊资料。〔《新星报》（天津），1947年6月22日，第4版〕
六月五日
先生访顾廷龙，告傅增湘以手校本四千余册赠平馆，中有《册府元龟》。〔《顾廷龙日记》，页490〕
六月上旬
先生致信王伯祥，托抄平馆所编清代碑记文史论文索引中收录的笔记目录，并询董作宾《甲骨丛编》书稿能否再印。〔《王伯祥日记》第21册，页261-262〕
按：此信应于6月10日送达，6月12日王伯祥抄录完毕后寄送先生。
六月九日
晚，先生访郑振铎，在其处与马衡、徐森玉、汤安、顾廷龙、钱锺书、李宗侗、钱存训、张珩等人畅谈、饮酒。〔《郑振铎年谱（修订本）》，页1170〕
按：汤安（1887-1967），字临泽，别署临石、邻石，浙江嘉兴人，画家、篆刻家，尤善仿古。
先生致信教育部朱家骅部长，请其根据面谈时所允数目拨付平馆修理、临时等费。
敬陈者，职馆以多年之经营，在战前业已略具规模，内外学者莅平参观者莫不公认为东亚之重要学术机关。屡承惠允宽筹经费、促其发展，俾能使之合于国际之标准。职馆同人莫不感奋。惟年余以来，以库款支绌，勉维现状，而钧部筹得之美金五十万元，职馆迄今未承分配，而本年度扩充改良费亦仅领到壹亿元，指定专作租用北海静心斋之用。此次来京曾将需要迫切情形略予陈述，荷蒙面允于大楼修理费壹亿伍千万外之外，另拨临时费贰亿元，一俟美金外汇及扩充改良费经行政院核准后，当即续拨，并允将原是由请之款列入下次分配预算之内，仰见钧座维护文化之盛意，钦感莫名。微闻主管部分以职原呈首列大楼修理费壹亿伍千万元，认为钧座所批之贰亿元包括此项修理费在内，此种解释与钧座面允者不同，两相差之数为数既钜，不得不重申前请，务恳转嘱主管部份以钧座面允者为根据（修理费一亿五千万元，已于廿二日批准并已汇平，此次增拨之贰亿元则系二十八日批准者），并乞提前电汇至平，以应亟需，不胜迫切待命之至。
六月九日
〔《北京图书馆馆史资料汇编（1909-1949）》，页895-896〕
按：此件应为先生所抄之副本。
先生致信行政院长张群，请就傅增湘捐书之举拨发奖励费及医药费。大意如下：
敬陈者，江安傅沅叔（增湘）先生，博学硕德，收藏宏富。近以老年多病，乃将其躬自批校之书四千余册，捐赠本馆，每册根据宋元佳椠，朱墨灿然，集毕生之精力悉荟于斯，嘉惠来学，至深且钜。业经本馆报部特呈钧院予以褒奖，并请酌拨医药费，俾资调理。值此紧急经济措施之时，固知军政各费需用浩繁，惟念傅先生以垂暮之年，慨然舍其一生收藏之典籍，捐诸国有，不仅价值钜万，其所风动社会而示范于国民者，意义尤为重大。政府于此，纵或支出一亿二亿，在全年预算中所占甚微，而直接裨益于人民者为功不可胜计。为此仰恳钧座提前批准，不胜感激待命之至。
〔《中国历代国家藏书机构及名家藏读叙传选》，页148-149〕
陈剑翛致函先生，请在美英捐赠书刊中留意为广西大学分润若干。
守和馆长学兄左右：
上月杪晋京述职，获相逢于道左，车行甚速，未及畅谈，嗣又因各地学潮澎湃，赶回桂林，有疏访候，愧不可言。本校自复员以来，幸得教职员之协助及教育部之扶植，与地方政府之合作渐能循序而进，略复旧观，洵称幸事。惟图书损失甚钜，急待补充，加以外汇结购困难，无法采购或订购。前承贵馆赠配一部份书籍，由香港装箱运送，至当感谢。仍恳费神垂注本校，多多分配。嗣后如联总、英美援华会等机关如有遗馈，无论新旧书物或文法理工农等参考书均所需求，不胜欢迎。至于感激之情，不仅限于弟一人已也。兹托本校法律系教授梁念曾兄顺便面陈一切，毋任依依。匆叩道安。
弟陈剑翛上
卅六，六，九
又，何杰先生在此任教务长，甚得信仰。附及。
〔国立广西大学用笺。南京大学图书馆特藏部〕
按：梁念曾，河北人，北京大学毕业，著有《中国民法总论》，1948年桂林建设印刷所刊行。何杰（1888-1979），字孟绰，广东番禺人，地质学家，1903年入岭南学堂（Canton Christian College），后赴美留学，归国先后在北京大学、北洋大学、中山大学等校任教。时，广西大学应在桂林将军桥附近。
六月十日
先生致信郑振铎，介绍爨汝僖前往面商《域外所藏中国古画集》捐赠、订购事宜。
敬恳者，尊处所印《中国名画集》十四种，以成本较高，未敢根据出版法之规定请发行人按期呈缴。内中有已购预约者，有因上海办事处以款绌关系尚未订购者。兹拟订购全部，务请格外廉价出售，凡能赠送者即请赠送，必须购买者则照价付款，似于公私均能顾到。兹介绍爨君前来面洽，即希赐予指导是荷。顺颂大安。
弟袁同礼顿首
〔《北京图书馆馆史资料汇编（1909-1949）》，页897〕
按：《中国名画集》即《域外所藏中国古画集》，由郑振铎所编，依次分《西域画》《汉晋六朝画》《唐五代画》《宋画》《元画》《明画》《明遗民画》《明遗民画续集》《清画》8编，共24辑，信中所言14种，应指至该年夏已印行者。此为抄件，左侧标注“已出”“待出”各册信息。
六月中旬
先生覆信王重民，同意其在北京大学支全薪。〔《胡适遗稿及秘藏书信》第24册，页92-94〕
按：王重民意欲将此前在平馆所领部分薪水退回。
六月十三日
先生致信联合国经济暨社会理事会亚洲及远东经济委员会中国代表团秘书处，请为平馆征集文献资料。
敝馆搜集我国参加国际会议之资料业已粗具规模、蔚为大观。兹闻联合国经济暨社会理事会亚洲及远东经济委员会定于本月十五日在沪举行会议，商讨远东经济问题，至关重要。内中我国及其他参与各国代表团所印之备忘录与提案及一切文件，莫不为重要史料。敝馆亟愿保存全份以供研究，拟请贵团指定一人代为搜集或代为设法保留一份，一俟奉函示知，当即派员来取。用特专函奉恳，统希查照办理，见复为荷。
〔《北京图书馆馆史资料汇编（1909-1949）》，页899〕
按：此为抄件。
先生致信朱家骅，申请教育部对平馆增拨经费用以购藏善本古籍。
敬陈者，上海潘明训氏为近代海内藏书家之一，自购得项城袁克文氏旧藏宋刊《礼记正义》（南渡后三山黄唐所刻，海内传为孤本），因颜其斋曰宝礼堂。嗣以袁氏所藏善本旧椠归潘氏者十之六七，藏庋至富。潘氏且有佞宋之癖，苟为善本，重值勿吝，故二十年来所积，几与北杨南瞿相颉颃。其所编《宋本书录》凡四册，内中收入宋版书一百十余种及元版书六种，尤为名贵。而未列入书目者，尚有多种。海盐张菊生元济先生曾为作序，有“余尝登宝礼之堂，纵观所藏琳琅满目，如游群玉之府”，足以知其梗概。潘氏于数年前逝世，上年一月其后人曾欲觅受主，售书还债。经本馆与之接洽，以议价未谐，事遂中止。兹潘氏后人又因需款孔亟，仍愿割爱让诸公家，索价十亿元。价虽过钜，但念时不可失，似宜收归国有，以免散佚。兹特建议由钧部委托张元济、徐鸿宝、郑振铎诸先生与其后人切实商洽，并公同议价，期于有成。将来如能分藏南北两馆，实为艺林之盛事。惟值此紧急经济措施之时，尤赖钧座特为赞助，俾此批宝贵之收藏归诸国有。全国学术界同深感谢。用特奉陈，敬候钧裁，并盼赐复为感。
袁
六月十三日，上海
〔《北京图书馆馆史资料汇编（1909-1949）》，页900-901〕
按：此为抄件。
六月二十日
上午，郑振铎、贺昌群至宝庆路平馆上海办事处访问先生，并在此午餐。〔《郑振铎年谱（修订本）》，页1172〕
六月下旬
先生患气管炎，旋即转为肺炎，问诊于焦湘宗医生。〔《北京图书馆馆史资料汇编（1909-1949）》，页904〕
按：焦湘宗（1893-1985），字景汉，山东即墨人，1917年12月毕业于同济大学医学院，曾任颜惠庆的私人医生，其诊所时在上海陕西南路213号2号。
六月二十六日
先生致信法斯，请其考虑资助平馆筹办苏俄研究中心，强调现有文献的珍贵性。
Shanghai, June 26, 1947
Dear Mr. Fahs:
I trust you and Mr. Evans have settled down at your New York office after two months'visit abroad.
While I am in Shanghai, I have gathered together an extremely valuable collection of Russian works on Sinology as well as on Mongolia, Tibet, “Chinese Turkestan”, and the Amur Provinces. According to Prof. Gapanovich, many titles may not be duplicated elsewhere, as the Soviets have not given permission to let these books leave their country.
If Dr. Stevens could not recommend a larger grant in view of the political situation in China, I hope he would make a special grant for the development of our Slavic Center. We have really made a good beginning, and I think the project deserves Foundation's support.
When you decide to make us the grant, the quarterly payment of your grant should be sent to the Chase National Bank, Park Avenue Branch, Park Avenue and 60th street, New York City, as the large portion of your possible grant will be used for the acquisition of source materials in Europe and the United States.
Yours sincerely,
T. L. Yuan
Director
〔国立北平图书馆英文信纸。Rockefeller Foundation. Series 601: China; Subseries 601. R: China-Humanities and Arts. Vol. Box 47. Folder 391〕
按：Amur Provinces即黑龙江省。此件为打字稿，落款处为先生签名。
六月二十九日
先生遵焦湘宗医生之建议，入住中西疗养院，后在此休养一月。〔《北京图书馆馆史资料汇编（1909-1949）》，页905〕
按：先生似于7月31日出院。
七月四日
先生致信张全新，请转告噶邦福来馆编纂俄文书目。
日前在沪所购俄文书，经已交邮分批寄上，谅均收到。关于噶邦福先生为馆编订俄文书目一节，拟请尊处代为转告，请噶君利用本年暑假，务将该项目录编订竣事，俾早日付印。并欢迎其夫妇及小孩到静心斋度夏，并自本月份起每月加送研究费二十五万元，在高等司所拨研究费专款内拨付，即希转知会计股予以照拨为荷。近又购得俄文书一批，共用一千二百五十万元，书目容再寄上。
袁
〔《北京图书馆馆史资料汇编（1909-1949）》，页902〕
按：此为抄件。
七月八日
先生致电王访渔、顾子刚二人，大意如下：
加底薪拟自本月施行，谨拟草案。又生补费余款，请早分配同人。修缏堂有俄文书，内容甚佳，请派张全新选购。
〔《中国历代国家藏书机构及名家藏读叙传选》，页149〕
七月九日
先生致信Dorothy J. Comins，收到其来函及第二份补充清单，为了加快分发已亲赴上海督办，最终报告将会在适当的时候寄出。
July 9, 1947
Dear Miss Comins:
Thank you for your letter of June 10 and a second supplementary list of journals which the ALA has allocated for Chinese libraries.
To expedite the work of distribution of books and journals, I have come down to Shanghai to give the matter my personal supervision. A report will be submitted to your Committee in due course.
I wish to take this opportunity to express once more our grateful appreciation to the American Library Association for the allocation of these scholarly and scientific journals for Chinese libraries. Their presence in China greatly facilitates the scientific research carried on by Chinese scholars.
Sincerely yours,
T. L. Yuan
Director
〔平馆上海办事处英文信纸。The American Library Association Archives, China Projects File, Box 2, Periodicals for Chinese Universities, Correspondence and Lists, 1944-1947〕
按：此件为打字稿，落款处为先生签名，于7月16日送达。
七月十日
先生致信朱家骅，请教育部为平馆增拨经费。
卧病沪上，荷蒙派员视疾，并承惠允资助医药费用，德意隆情，至为铭感。惟此次致病之由，实以馆中经费拮据，应付维艰，而物质狂涨，巧妇实难为无米之炊。五中焦灼，莫可言宣。此中困难情形，曾经面陈，荷承惠允于政院核准增加经费时，再予增拨。仰见钧座对于职馆关切之殷，全馆同人至为感奋。查职馆本年度预算，经钧部核定者仅有（一）生补费，（二）经常费，（三）临时费三种，而无购书费，以致每购一书，必须在临时费项下撙节开支。今春书估持《明实录》原本三册求售，索价三百万元，检查馆藏目录，正馆中所缺之本，但以无款，竟致失之交臂。此叹之事甚多，实为最伤心之事，而职迄未能忘怀者也。本年四月，曾经申请钧部拨付拾亿元，旋于五、六月间，承拨下三亿五千万元，业已具领，但距实际需要相差尚远。兹闻增加教育经费，业经政院核准，爰奉上概算书一份，请赐量援，务恳将所需余款六亿五千万元提前拨付，以应急需。一俟病体稍愈，再行入京面谢。
〔《北京图书馆馆史资料汇编（1909-1949）》，页903〕
按：此为抄件。
七月十二日
先生致信郑振铎，就其赠送平馆《域外所藏中国古画集》第一辑表示感谢。
承惠赠《唐五代画》、《宋画》及《清画》第一辑，共五册，厚谊隆庆，至深感谢。其余各种自当遵嘱价购，兹于本日汇奉价款捌仟壹百陆拾万元（由上海办事处送上），附购书清单一份，即乞察收给据，以便归账。该书印就并盼就近送交宝庆十七号敝馆办事处。又《中国版画史图录》第六辑，似已预约五部钱存训经手，并希费神一查为荷。
弟袁同礼顿首
七月十二日
〔《北京图书馆馆史资料汇编（1909-1949）》，页898〕
按：此为抄件，结尾处有“《宋画》七月十五日取到”标记。
七月十八日
先生致信中国驻柏林军事代表团缪培基，告知汇寄美金用以将暂存柏林大使馆之书箱运沪。大意如下：
数月前曾上一函，奉恳台端托团中同事闵乃大代敝馆所购之书存于柏林大使馆者（约十箱左右）设法寄沪，谅荷台洽。敝馆同时致伦敦中国银行，以美金300元入贵团账内，作为预备付书箱之运费，想该行已径行函达在案。
〔《中国历代国家藏书机构及名家藏读叙传选》，页150〕
《国立北京大学十八年度学生一览》，1930年，页13；《中国留法比瑞同学会同学录》，1943年，页198。
按：缪培基（？—2006），字植根，广东五华人，1930年北京大学毕业，后赴法国留学，在巴黎政治学校学习，归国后历任武汉大学、中山大学教授
，时代理中国驻柏林军事代表团团务。
七月
College and Research Libraries刊登先生文章，题为The Next Twenty-Five Years in the Development of Chinese Libraries。〔College and Research Libraries, Vol. 8, no. 3, 1947, pp. 376-379〕
按：先生文章大致分为综述、Functions of National Libraries、Provincial Libraries、Special Libraries、Salary Situation、Services should be integrated六部分，该刊由美国图书馆协会下属大学和研究图书馆协会（Association of College & Research Libraries）编辑发行。此篇文章失收于《袁同礼文集》。
八月一日
下午一时，先生搭乘飞机由沪抵平。〔《东南日报》上海，1947年8月2日，第8版〕
八月三日
上午十时，北平国剧学会假欧美同学会举行成立大会，王瑶卿、王凤卿、李辰冬、金仲仁、尚和玉、胡伯翰、侯喜瑞、郝寿臣、郝遇林、马衡、先生、陈纪滢、梁实秋、张伯谨、张伯驹、齐如山、谭小培等七十余人到场，通过会章并选举理、监事，其中齐如山、王向宸、梁实秋、陈纪滢、先生、胡伯翰、张伯驹、梅兰芳等十一人为理事，马衡、王季高等五人为监事。〔《华北日报》，1947年8月4日，第4版〕
按：该会本于1931年成立，由梅兰芳、余叔岩、齐如山、张伯驹等创办，曾出版画报及戏剧丛刊，会址初设在虎坊桥，1935年迁至绒线胡同。北平沦陷后，部分文物被日人掠去，会务停顿。本年春，张道藩、何思源、马衡、陈纪莹、王向宸、梁实秋、先生提议恢复国剧学会，由齐如山负责筹备，故宫博物院拨借霞公府南夹道六十八号为会址，用以陈列存留之文物。
八月八日
国剧学会举行理事、监事第一次联席会议，公推齐如山、陈纪滢、王向宸、梁实秋、先生为常务理事，齐如山为理事长，李辰冬为常务监事，又推何思源、张伯谨等十人为名誉理事，并决定近期内举行戏剧讲座，由张伯驹筹备。〔《华北日报》，1947年8月9日，第4版〕
八月十六日
下午，朱家骅赴故宫博物院，该院举行理事会，胡适、李书华、马衡、先生等出席。会后，马衡陪同朱家骅参观古物、文献、图书三馆。晚六时，马衡设茶点招待。〔《大公报》（天津），1947年8月17日，第2版〕
按：本日上午，朱家骅赴清华、燕京大学考察，两校教授、学生均呼吁改善生活。晚七时，国立北平研究院在中南海四所设宴款待朱家骅。
郝景盛致函先生，请将东北大学农学院补入美英捐赠书刊待分配院校名单之中。
同礼先生道席：
关于美国送给中国各大学书籍，东北大学农学院被遗漏，望便中关照，属人补入，不胜感激。因东大惨遭破坏甚于他校也。专此，敬祝大安。
弟郝景盛敬上
八月十六，1947
〔国立东北大学公用笺。南京大学图书馆特藏部〕
按：郝景盛（1903-1955），河北正定人，林学家、植物学家，毕业于北京大学生物系，后赴德留学，1939年归国，曾任中央大学、东北大学农学院教授。
八月十八日
刘树勋致函先生，请为东北大学留意分配美国捐赠书刊。
同礼馆长勋鉴：
九一八事变后，沈阳本校图书馆内图书悉遭摧毁，以致此次复员后本校特感图书缺乏，不敷师生参考之用，而尤以西文书为甚。闻美国赠送我国西文书籍甚多，由台端会同教育部组织委员会将该项书籍分配于各大学，务希参照东北沦陷后本校遭受特殊损失情况，多予拨给该项西文书籍，无任盼祷。耑此，敬颂勋绥。
国立东北大学代理校长刘树勋敬启
八月十八日
〔国立东北大学公用笺。南京大学图书馆特藏部〕
按：刘树勋（1902-1986），字景异，辽宁昌图人，土木工程学家，毕业于东北大学，后赴美留学，归国后曾任中央大学土木系教授。该函应为文书所撰，落款处钤刘树勋名章。
八月十九日
吴某覆函先生，告知国民政府就傅增湘捐书的褒扬令和奖金已发出。
守和我兄左右：
奉手书敬悉。傅案据查奖金四千万有余，已饬发，褒扬令已呈国府矣，请释注为幸。耑复，敬颂勋绥。
弟吴□顿首
八，十九
〔行政院秘书处用笺。国家图书馆档案，档案编号1947-※039-采藏11-003002〕
八月二十二日
先生致信斯文·赫定，请其寄送西北科学考查团完整报告，并略谈平馆现况。
August 22, 1947
Dear Dr. Hedin:
When I was in Europe last year, I tried to come to Sweden to call on you, but owing to various engagements I regret very much that I was not able to do so. Prof. Chen Yuan, who attended the Pen Club conference in Stockholm, told me that you had been enjoying extremely good health, which gave us a great deal of pleasure.
I believe I wrote to you, as well as to the Swedish Legation in China, re our desire to have The Reports from the Scientific Expedition to the Northwest which you have edited during the war. It seems that the main difficulty lies in the transportation of these volumes. Now that the mail service has returned to normal, I hope you could give instructions to have these volumes sent to us by registered book-post. We shall be very glad to pay for the postal charges.
I wish to congratulate you and your colleagues for bringing out these reports in such a short time, and I hope that these reports may be made available to Chinese scholars who are keenly interested in the results of your great expedition to the Northwest.
This Library has not had any damage during the war, and we are now continuing the systematic collection of scientific literature. We are hoping that more Swedish publications will be sent to China, especially those printed in English and French, so that closer intercourse will be promoted between scholars of our two countries.
With kindest regards to you and your colleagues,
Very sincerely yours,
T. L. Yuan
Director
〔国立北平图书馆英文信纸。韩琦教授提供〕
按：此件为打字稿，落款处为先生签名。
八月下旬
联合国文教组织中国委员会委员名单公布，共计120名人士入选，先生名列其中。〔《申报》，1947年8月28日，第6版〕
按：该委员会定于8月28日在南京考试院明志楼召开成立大会。
八月三十一日
晚，金毓黻在墨蝶林设宴，马衡、郑天挺、唐兰、袁敦礼等人受邀与席，先生因病未赴。〔《静晤室日记》第8册，页6396〕
按：墨蝶林为西餐馆，店址应在东单三条。
九月五日
先生致信法斯，告知美国汉学家雷兴等人对北平的访问情况，并请其考虑资助平馆筹建缩微胶卷实验室。
September 5, 1947
Dear Mr. Fahs:
Since you were here, we have made much progress in the acquisition of Slavic materials and in the compilation of the Union Catalogue of Russian Books in Peiping, including those kept at the Russian Orthodox Church. The fathers there are so conservative that they would not let outsiders know the contents of their library until after much negotiation.
We have translated a number of Sino-Russian diplomatic documents issued before the outbreak of the First World War as well as Muraviev's Letter and Correspondence in connection with the occupation of the Amur. These documents are of great interest to history as they throw much light on Sino-Russian diplomacy in the middle of the 19th century.
Over 900 Russian diplomatic documents have been located in Peiping. We shall undertake to have them translated as soon as further financial support is available.
The large amount of scholarly material available in Peiping has greatly impressed Lessing, Bingham and Swisher, who are now here for a visit. They feel keenly the need for a microfilm equipment, as there are many materials which they are anxious to reproduce. In this connection we hope that the Foundation will soon make a decision regarding the setting up of a Laboratory here.
With kindest regards,
Yours very Sincerely,
T. L. Yuan
Director
〔Rockefeller Foundation. Series 601: China; Subseries 601. R: China-Humanities and Arts. Vol. Box 47. Folder 391〕
按：Muraviev即Nikolai Muraviev（Николáй Николáевич Муравьёв-Амýрский，1809-1881），通译为尼古拉·尼古拉耶维奇·穆拉维约夫·阿穆尔斯基，俄国将军，19世纪50年代，任东部西伯利亚总督，窃踞黑龙江（Amur），1858年5月他迫使黑龙江将军奕山签订了《瑷珲条约》。Bingham即Woodbridge Bingham（1901-1986），美国汉学家，通译作“宾板桥”，专攻唐史，长期执教于加州大学伯克利分校。Swisher即Earl Swisher（1902-1975），美国记者、汉学家，长期执教于科罗拉多大学，曾担任恒慕义的助手。法斯接到该信后，分别函询了恒慕义、裘开明、Elizabeth Huff等人对在北平设立缩微文献中心的意见。其中，恒慕义极力支持在平馆设立缩微文献中心，裘开明则认为北平的重要性和安全性都有问题，应该在上海——南京这一地区考虑筹设缩微文献中心。
九月九日
某记者来金鱼胡同宅，先生略谈平馆编纂中美、中英、中印外交史料之进展，并告知教育部虽拨改良费三亿五千万元，但仅敷修缮馆舍之用。〔《经世日报》，1947年9月10日，第4版〕
九月十日
中午十二时，平津（唐）地区国立院校谈话会假北京大学孑民堂举行新学年第一次会议。胡适、叶企孙、李麟玉、叶正昌（艺专）、钟世铭（北洋大学）、牛文清（大辞典编纂处）、金涛（唐山工学院）、申新柏（铁院）、袁敦礼（北平师范学院）、先生、杨光弼（北平研究院秘书）出席。首由胡适报告赴京向有关部门接洽配发各院校实物以安定教职员生活之经过，并宣读教育部部长朱家骅九日来电，各院校教职员本月起每人每月可先发面粉两袋。经过短暂聚餐，继续讨论各案：教授底薪问题、向政府请拨冬季煤火问题、要求教部将唐山工学院划归平津地区、推定杨光弼为该会秘书、本学年例会轮值及召集办法。三时，散会。〔《大公报》（天津），1947年9月11日，第3版〕
按：叶正昌（1909-2007），四川铜梁人，画家，时在北平艺术专科学院执教。钟世铭（1879-1965），字蕙生，天津人，北洋大学堂毕业后赴美留学，获哈佛大学博士学位，归国后曾任财政部次长，时任北洋大学校长。金涛、申新柏二人生平待考。下次谈话会拟于10月8日在师范学院举行。
下午四时许，季羡林至金鱼胡同宅访先生，不值。〔《此心安处是吾乡：季羡林归国日记（1946-1947）》，页265〕
九月十二日
爨汝僖（上海）覆函先生，谈公私杂事。
守和馆长钧鉴：
昨奉八日手示并现币五万四千元，如数收到。斐云先生到沪后仅见面一次、电话两次，其住居秘密，无从走访。部发医药费仍无消息，曾函请斗南先生催部提早汇沪，所有用费只得暂时停支。郑印西域画集，来薰阁云出书后将卖特价，届时再行订购。闻各轮有征调运兵之说，日前交寄书包，忽得思南路邮局通知取回，何多源君北来能否预定舱位，容再办理。钱先生于昨日返沪，其本月份薪津已由平馆照扣，彼希望每月扣去整数，其零凑汇贵阳，留为缴家之用。另有函呈座右，当蒙批准。耑肃，敬请钧安。
职爨汝僖谨上
九月十二日
〔国立北平图书馆上海办事处信纸。国家图书馆档案，档案编号1945-※057-综合5-024003〕
按：“钱先生”即钱存训，其夫人许文锦及女儿钱孝岑、钱孝峨、钱孝岳均在贵阳生活，由钱存训四弟钱存造照顾。
九月十五日
下午四时许，季羡林、师觉月赴平馆看书，与先生晤谈。〔《此心安处是吾乡：季羡林归国日记（1946-1947）》，页267〕
下午四时，联合国教科文组织中国委员会在教育部会议室举行首次执委会，决议推朱家骅为主任委员，胡适、吴贻芳为副主任；推张道藩、瞿世英、程其保为秘书处组织规程草案起草委员；推定各专门委员会委员。其中，李济、先生、蒋复璁、陈桢、凌纯声被推举为图书馆及博物院委员会委员。〔《大公报》（上海），1947年9月17日，第5版〕
按：另外五个专门委员会为自然科学、社会科学哲学及人文科学、教育、大众传播、艺术及文学等项。
九月十七日
十二时，先生在金鱼胡同寓所设宴款待英千里，后陪同至平馆视察。〔《民国日报》（天津），1947年9月18日，第4版〕
按：本日，英千里作为教育部社会教育司司长考察北平各文教机构。
九月十九日
晚五时许，远东区基督教会议代表团成员赴平馆参观基本教育资料展览，事毕先生设茶会款待。〔《申报》，1947年9月20日，第7版〕
按：18日，远东区基督教会议代表团一行十六人乘飞机抵达北平。是日上午，代表团成员先参观国立北平师范学院及第一附属小学，后游历颐和园，下午先后参观清华大学、燕京大学，至平馆时已颇为疲惫。基本教育资料展览由平馆、北京大学、燕京大学、中国大辞典编纂处供给展品，涉及三个方面，分别为行政与组织、方法与技术、内容与材料。
九月中旬
北京大学公布图书馆学与博物馆学两种专科本年度课程，先生讲授“图书馆学概论”。〔《民国日报》（天津），1947年9月21日，第4版〕
按：图书馆学其他科目为“中国目录学”（王重民）、“西洋目录学”（毛子水）、“中国目录学实习”（王重民），博物馆学课程则多由韩寿萱担任。
九月二十日
中午，胡适、马衡在故宫博物院设宴款待远东区基督教会议代表团成员，并邀袁敦礼、先生、徐悲鸿、陆志韦、李麟玉、王季高、英千里等人作陪，约二时许散，该代表团继续参观故宫博物院。〔《华北日报》，1947年9月21日，第5版〕
按：上午九时至十二时，王世襄陪同该团参观中西两路，下午参观东路钟表、瓷器、铜器、图书等陈列室。
九月二十四日
朱家骅致电先生。
国立北平图书馆袁馆长守和兄（至密）：
美捐图书亟待处理，务请尽速南来主持。
弟朱家骅。申敬。□印
〔国家图书馆档案，档案编号1946-※046-外事5-006043〕
九月二十五日
晚，行政院院长张群在怀仁堂举行茶会，招待北平国立、私立各大、中、小学校长及各级人员百余人，胡适、梅贻琦、袁敦礼、先生、徐悲鸿、徐佩琨、王正廷、李麟玉、石志泉、杨光弼等人到场，何思源、张伯谨、王季高等人到场陪同。会上，胡适等人请求从速提高教员待遇，张群表示返京后即筹划解决。〔《民国日报》（天津），1947年9月26日，第1版〕
按：石志泉（1887-1960），字友儒，湖北孝感人，清末赴日本东京帝国大学攻读法律，并加入同盟会，时应兼任北平朝阳学院院长。
先生覆信朱家骅，婉拒南下主持英美捐赠图书分配之请。
南京教育部朱部长钧鉴：
奉申敬至密电，敬悉壹是。查分配英美捐赠图书事，于七月间曾请翁主任委员另聘洪范五先生为秘书主持其事，并推荐李芳馥、黄维廉两君为常务干事，以便在沪就近处理。日前并函翁主任委员请其面劝洪君从速赴沪，勿再固辞。同礼新病初愈，仍待调养，兼以馆中经费困难，筹措旅费颇属不易，一时不克南下，至深惶悚，敬希亮察是幸。
职袁同礼
申有
〔国家图书馆档案，档案编号1946-※046-外事5-006044〕
按：此件为文书所拟之底稿，先生多有修改，并于本日以快邮发出。
先生覆信斯文·赫定，告知居延汉简在美保存情况，并谈平馆所藏西北科学考查团报告的卷期情况，希望其能够协助补齐。
September 25, 1947
Dear Dr. Hedin:
It is a great pleasure to receive your autographic letter of September 5, which shows your hand to be as strong as ever.
I hasten to assure you that Lattimore's report about the wooden MSS discovered by the late Dr. Bergman being safe in Washington, is quite true. When the situation in Hongkong became tense, the MSS were sent to Washington for safe-keeping by the Chinese Committee. They had been photographed, the blurred ones with the latest infra-red photography; but unfortunately, the photographs were lost by the Commercial Press during the Japanese occupation of Hongkong.
Since it will be cheaper to photograph them in the United States, arrangement is now being made to have the work done there before the MSS are returned to China. Dr. Fu Ssu-nien, who is in Washington, is negotiating about the matter. Your proposal to include the volume in the Swedish series of reports is being referred to him.
As to the magnificent reports you are publishing, our Order Department reports to have received only Vol. 8, Pt. 1, which is the first part of Dr. Lessing's monograph on the Lama Temple in Peiping. I hope you will arrange to have the other volumes sent to our library. I assure you many scientists are eager to have the opportunity of reading them.
With my best wishes to you and to Dr. Montell,
Yours sincerely,
T. L. Yuan
Director
〔国立北平图书馆英文信纸。韩琦教授提供〕
按：the magnificent reports指Reports from the scientific expedition to the north-western provinces of China under leadership of Dr. Sven Hedin，实为报告的丛书名，各卷题名不尽相同且卷数并非以出版时间前后为序。Vol. 8似指Ergebnisse der allgemeinen meteorologischen beobachtungen und der drachenaufstiege an den beiden standlagern bei Ikengüng und am Edsen-gol 1931-32，1940年斯德哥尔摩初版。Dr. Lessing's monograph应指Yung Ho Kung: an iconography of the Lamaist Cathedral in Peking, with notes on Lamaist mythology and cult, 1942年瑞典民族学博物馆出版。此件为打字稿，落款处为先生签名。
先生致信史蒂文斯，告知平馆苏俄研究中心进展——北平地区俄文文献联合目录即将完成。
September 25, 1947
Dear Dr. Stevens:
Since Dr. Fahs's visit we have made considerable progress in the development of our Slavic and Japanese Centers. We have greatly strengthened our collection of source materials and we have almost completed the compilation of our union catalogue of Russian books available in various depositories in Peiping.
The availability of the Russian books in our Slavic Centre has stimulated interest in the study of Russian language and literature. Four universities in Peiping have added Russian courses in their curricula. So, there is a large undergraduate enrollment for such courses beginning with the fall term. The demand on the Library for Russian materials and for particular facilities for advanced study have let us to adopt a program of increased buying in the Soviet Union and elsewhere.
When Dr. Fahs was here in May, a memorandum was submitted to him regarding the needs of the Library. I understood from him that the Executive Committee of your Foundation shall meet in the fall when our application for support will be considered. Knowing that you are interested in the promotion of Slavic studies, I trust you will find it possible to support our application and I look forward to hearing from you before long.
With kindest regards,
Yours sincerely,
T. L. Yuan
Director
〔国立北平图书馆英文信纸。Rockefeller Foundation. Series 601: China; Subseries 601. R: China-Humanities and Arts. Vol. Box 47. Folder 391〕
按：此件为打字稿，落款处为先生签名。
先生致信美国图书馆协会援助战区图书馆委员会，告知英美赠书分配委员会已将美方捐赠的图书、期刊发放给中国各图书馆，尤其是私立高校，并表示感谢。
September 25, 1947
Committee on Aid to Libraries in War Areas
American Library Association
Library of Congress Annex, Study 251
Washington, D. C.
U. S. A.
Dear Sirs:
The Chinese Committee on Distribution of Books has completed the distribution among Chinese libraries of the four sets of outstanding American Books published during the war years, which were made available to China by your Committee. The publications were well selected and are meeting the urgent needs of Chinese scholars. They form an exceedingly important contribution toward the replenishment of Chinese libraries.
Among your gifts the most valuable ones are the sets of scholarly, scientific and technical journals published during the war years. They have been distributed among Chinese libraries, especially to those of the private universities as they do not receive the journals purchased by the Ministry of Education, with priority given to those which need the war issues to fill the gaps of their files. These journals are eagerly sought by Chinese scholars and scientists, and their availability greatly facilitates scientific research in China.
I am enclosing herewith the principles governing the distribution of the journals among Chinese libraries as well as lists of these journals indicating to which libraries in China they are being allocated.
Permit me, therefore, to take this opportunity to convey to you our most cordial thanks for your splendid gift. The presence of these books and journals will serve as a token of American friendship toward Chinese scholars.
T. L. Yuan
Secretary
Chinese Committee on the Distribution of Books
〔国立北平图书馆英文信纸。The American Library Association Archives, China Projects File, Box 2, Periodicals for Chinese Universities, Correspondence and Lists, 1944-1947〕
按：此件为打字稿，落款处为先生签名。附1页分配书刊原则，共计8条；美国图书馆协会捐赠各期刊初次分配院校清单（1st Distribution of A. L. A. Journals），共计24页；北平地区各院校分配清单（List of A. L. A. Journals Allocated to the Peiping Area），共计11页。
十月一日
先生致信傅忠谟，告知教育部已将褒奖傅增湘捐书奖金汇平，特派人送上并请撰写收据。
晋生先生惠鉴：
近两月来以病相缠，未得趋教。近维侍祺康吉为祝。顷奉教育部令，拨给尊翁捐书奖金肆仟万元款已汇到，兹派人送上，即请察收，并请掣给收据，以便报部是幸。附钞原令，并希台阅。专此，顺候时祺。
弟袁〇〇
卅六，十，一
附国币肆仟万元钞令一件。
〔国家图书馆档案，档案编号1947-※039-采藏11-003001〕
按：傅忠谟（1905-1974），字晋生，同济大学毕业，后随父亲傅增湘学习版本目录学。此件为文书所拟之底稿，先生略加增删。
十月六日
法斯致函先生，告知洛克菲勒基金会不便资助平馆建立苏俄、日本研究中心，缩微胶片实验室则仍待决定。
October 6, 1947
Dear Dr. Yuan:
A reply has long been due you to the various requests which you have made to us both in writing and orally during my visit in Peiping. It has required some time to digest and organize the impressions and information which I obtained in the Far East so that your requests could be considered in their full context.
Under conditions now prevailing in the Far East, we have been forced to conclude that it is not practicable for us to obtain assistance for your centers of Russian or Japanese studies, although you are certainly to be congratulated on the energy which you have shown in preserving for scholarly use the Japanese books left in Peiping and your foresight in trying to provide the necessary foundation in library resources for more widespread study of Russia. Your work should be of great assistance when these subjects come to have a more important share in university education in the Peiping area.
It is still not clear whether your request for assistance in the purchase of a microfilm camera will have to receive the same negative response.One of the questions which still concerns me is the possibility of your obtaining the necessary film and supplies to make the camera effective if it were installed. When I was in Peiping even the hospitals were unable to obtain urgently needed X-Ray film because of government bans on the importation of photographic supplies. What assurance is there that similar difficulties would not make inoperative any equipment which we helped you to obtain?
I am glad that Lessing, Bingham, and Swisher had good visits at your Library and I shall look forward to hearing their opinions when they return.
Sincerely yours,
Charles B. Fahs
〔Rockefeller Foundation. Series 601: China; Subseries 601. R: China-Humanities and Arts. Vol. Box 47. Folder 391〕
《马衡年谱长编》原文有“尚于本年二月间在北平成立中国委员会”之表述，此处似有误，因所有关于该委员会成立的报道，如《科学》（第29卷第12期）、《外交部周报》（第44期）、《申报》、《和平日报》等均记为10月间。
十月
上旬
联合国国际博物馆协会中国委员会在北平成立，李济为主席，韩寿萱任秘书，马衡、先生、杨钟健、冯汉骥、郑德坤、曾昭燏、胡肇椿等任委员。〔《马衡年谱长编》，页980〕
按：10月13日，马衡签发联合国国际博物馆协会中国委员会致教育部代电，将此名单呈请鉴核备案。后，李济辞职，改推杭立武为主席。
十月十四日
下午三时，故宫博物院召开复员后第三次院务会议，马衡、张庭济、先生、赵儒珍、常惠、龚理华、关植耘、黄鹏霄、王孝缙、王世襄、李益华、张德泽、刘鸿逵等出席，马衡为主席，杭承艮记录。报告本院修正组织条例业经立法院通过、接收古物陈列所经过案、接收各项文物案、存素堂丝绣、溥仪留津物品、收购散佚书籍书画案、存渝文物还都经过案、各馆处工作报告等。此外，又讨论议案数项。临时动议中，图书馆提议本院太庙图书馆名称应予改正为“国立北平故宫博物院图书馆太庙分馆”，决议通过。〔《马衡年谱长编》，页981-983〕
按：太庙一处原名为“国立北平故宫博物院太庙图书分馆”。
傍晚，先生访徐旭生，谈太庙图书馆暂存日伪书籍分配事宜。〔《徐旭生文集》第10册，页1487-1488〕
按：翌日下午，徐旭生偕冯家昇、苏秉琦赴太庙图书馆查看已整理之书籍。
十月十五日
下午，平馆举行英国各出版社之书籍展览会开幕仪式，英议会访华团长亚蒙致辞，先生略作答辞。〔《时事新报》，1947年10月16日，第2版〕
按：亚蒙即Charles Ammon（1st Baron Ammon, 1873-1960），英国政治家，工党人士。本日上午，该团先赴燕京大学、清华大学参观，中午，北平市政府在颐和园设宴款待。
十月十六日
先生致信史蒂文斯，告知平馆已从美国购买缩微胶片机的部分设备，希望洛克菲勒基金会给予资助《图书季刊》英文本的出版及购买MicroFile Recordak Model C-2。
16 October, 1947
Dear Dr. Stevens:
With reference to our conversation regarding the need for reproduction of scholarly materials, I am glad to inform you that a 24-inch camera and platemaking equipment which we purchased from American Type Founder, Elizabeth, N. Y., has arrived at Tientsin. The camera and its attached equipment, costing US $5,000, were given to us by the Chinese Government. All the films and photographic supplies imported from the United States are tax-free, as we can obtain the import license from the Government without any difficulty.
Since I returned from Europe last November, we have received 300 cases of western books. All of them arrived safely without any damage. Among other things, we are building up a special collection of English poetry, consisting of finely printed editions which I purchased in London and Manchester last summer. We have just had an exhibition of British printing and I now enclose a newspaper clipping which may be of some interest to you.
We are still waiting for your action in regard to a subsidy for continuing the publication of the Quarterly Bulletin of Chinese Bibliography and in regard to the equipment for a photo-duplication laboratory in Peiping. With the equipment which we have already purchased from our own funds, we now only need the MicroFile Recordak, Model C-2, which is on sale at the Recordak Corporation, 350 Madison Avenue, costing about US $2,950. If you could assist us in obtaining a grant for this camera, we shall be able to set up the laboratory immediately.
I may add that we have purchased the Depue Microfilm Printer, the Recordak Enlarger, Model A1, the Omega D11 Enlarger, the Pako Economy Dryer, with their attached equipment and photographic supplies. We have also purchased four Spencer microfilm readers which are on their way to Peiping from Shanghai. Together with the cost of transportation, they cost us US $3,000.
I have just had a letter from Mr. Charles B. Shaw, Librarian at Swarthmore, who is coming to Peiping next week. I am sure he will report to you about our work here.
With kindest regards to you and Messrs. Marshall and Fahs,
Yours Sincerely
T. L. Yuan
Director
〔国立北平图书馆英文信纸。Rockefeller Foundation. Series 601: China; Subseries 601. R: China-Humanities and Arts. Vol. Box 47. Folder 393〕
按：Charles B. Shaw（1894-1962），通译作“沙本生”，1927年起担任美国斯沃斯莫尔学院（Swarthmore College）图书馆馆长，本年10月24日抵达北平访问。此件为打字稿，落款处为先生签名，似于11月7日送达。
十月二十日
先生致信法斯，告知国民政府已拨款购置了照相复制实验室的部分设备，并许诺给予耗材的免税进口许可，希望洛克菲勒基金会能够给予资助，加快该实验室的筹建并为美国国会图书馆等机构复制斯拉夫语馆藏。
October 20th, 1947
Dear Dr. Fahs:
I have pleasure in acknowledging the receipt of your letter of October 6th.
Regarding our centres of Russian and Japanese studies, we are going ahead with our plans, as we have meanwhile received support from the Chinese Government. In our Slavic collection there are a considerable number of titles not represented in the Library of Congress. Requests for microfilm copies of our Slavic material have been received, but we cannot comply with these requests until our photoduplication laboratory is set up.
With regard to the importation of films and photographic supplies for the use of the Library, I can assure you that they will be given tax-free treatment by the Chinese Government and there is no difficulty at all for us to obtain the import license.
Regarding the equipment for a photoduplication laboratory, I may inform you that the Chinese Government has given us $8,000 for the purchase of a 24-inch camera, the Depue Microfilm Printer and other equipment, all of which have been received at Peiping. They represent half of the necessary equipment for the above-mentioned laboratory.
When I was in New York last year, I assured Dr. Stevens that the Chinese Government would assist us in the purchase of some of the more expensive equipment for microphotography, if the Foundation would make a similar grant on a 50-50 basis. Now, with the arrival of the more expensive equipment which were promptly paid by the Chinese Government, we naturally look to your Foundation for some definite action.
Here in Peiping, we have the resources, the academic atmosphere and all the facilities for research. It is only our wish that some of our unique material could be made available to scholars outside of Peiping through microphotography. For this project, we hope the Foundation will lend us its support.
Yours sincerely
T. L. Yuan
Director
〔国立北平图书馆英文信纸。Rockefeller Foundation. Series 601: China; Subseries 601. R: China-Humanities and Arts. Vol. Box 47. Folder 393〕
按：此件为打字稿，落款处为先生签名，应于11月7日送达。
十月二十四日
下午一时半，美国图书馆专家沙本生由美使馆文化处职员胡绍声陪同乘飞机由沪抵达北平，先生和燕京大学代理校务长窦威廉（William H. Adolph）等人前往机场迎接。〔《华北日报》，1947年10月25日，第5版〕
《华北日报》，1947年10月23日，第5版。
按：沙本生来华目的，即考察各大学复员后图书馆设备及美国捐赠图书分配的情形，
尤其是教会大学图书馆事业现状。抵平前，沙本生曾发电报与先生。
十月三十日
下午三时许，沙本生赴平馆参观，先生负责陪同并至北海游览，并前往静心斋馆舍视察。〔《华北日报》，1947年10月31日，第5版〕
十一月初
故宫博物院将影印《唐写本王仁煦刊谬补缺切韵》（明宋濂跋本），先生嘱唐兰写一跋语，附之于后。〔《续修四库全书》经部·小学类第250册，页203〕
按：是年《唐写本王仁煦刊谬补缺切韵》见于书贾，于省吾偕唐兰前往查看，后经马衡主持，由故宫博物院购藏，旋即付印。
十一月二日
下午四时，中华图书馆协会假中国政治学会会所（南池子）举行茶会，欢迎美国图书馆学专家沙本生，六十余人到场，先生为会议主席，先介绍沙本生履历，继由其作演讲，内容涉及联合目录、报纸文献宜用缩微胶片补齐、编目排字法。〔《华北日报》，1947年11月3日，第5版〕
十一月三日
先生致信朱家骅，就平馆扩充改良费、翌年经常费、购书费提出申请。
骝先部长钧鉴：
此次政院核定社教机关扩充改良费，职曾电请钧座从优分配，谅蒙钧察。诚以职馆年来经费较少，一切设施辄以无款而陷于停顿，以致建设毫无，深资惭疚。此次追加之扩充改良费为数尚丰，拟恳准照职馆所请二十亿零伍千万元之数，特予从优尽数分配，如有余裕并恳酌予增加，俾得少资补救，至为感幸。再三十七年度经常费预算，钧部亦正在核定之中，职馆前送之概算书经常费列四亿六千余万元，已属最低之数，倘今后物价再增，势将仍感不敷应用，敬恳比照中央图书馆之经常费予以同等之分配，俾不致再有匮乏之虞，无任盼祷。又购书费一项，以前各年度未蒙正式列入预算，遇有购书良机，每多失之交臂，此项损失至为重大。前谒张院长、王副院长谈及职馆购书专款，均认为必要允予赞助，但须由钧部先行提出，政院方能核准。务恳于三十七年度预算内将职馆购书费准予一并列入，盼甚感甚。专肃，敬候勋祺。
职袁同礼谨启
十一月三日
〔国立北平图书馆用笺。台北“中央研究院”近代史研究所档案馆，〈朱家骅〉，馆藏号301-01-09-054，页64-66〕
台北“中央研究院”近代史研究所档案馆，〈朱家骅〉，馆藏号301-01-09-054，页78。
按：“张院长、王副院长”分指张群、王云五。此次，教育部追加扩充改良费，社会教育机关共计一百亿元，由十八家机构分配，平馆最终仅得六亿元。
此信应为文书代笔，落款处钤印。
十一月四日
先生致信Laurence J. Kipp，寄上美国图书中心发送中国书籍的阶段性分配报告、照片，并再次感谢该中心对中国图书馆事业所作出的贡献，希望可以开展新的项目并为中国提供新书和现刊。
4 November, 1947
Dear Mr. Kipp:
In reply to your letter of October 3, I take pleasure in sending you an interim report on the distribution of books sent to China by the American Book Centre. Three photographs showing the receipt of an ABC shipment and showing how the books are being used by the public are also enclosed.
The ABC program has materially assisted the rehabilitation of Chinese libraries that no adequate words could be found to express our heartfelt thanks. I am sure that many Chinese librarians would like to join me in conveying to you their sincerest appreciation for your valuable assistance.
We are most happy to learn that a new program is being planned by your Centre and we certainly hope that you will receive the support which such a new program deserves. We hope that it would be possible to include new books and current journals which are especially needed by Chinese institutions.
For your information, I may state that the China Office of the British Council has been subscribing to four sets of about 250 British Scientific and learned journals for distribution to various libraries in China. This arrangement has proved very successful and I hope that something can be done towards the supply of current American journals under the auspices of your Centre.
Thanking you for your interest and assuring you of our ready cooperation at all times,
Yours sincerely,
T. L. Yuan
Director
〔The American Library Association Archives, China Projects File, Box 2, Books for China, 1947〕
按：ABC即American Book Centre，该信附四页报告书。
十一月五日
下午四时，西北科学考查团开会，梅贻琦、袁复礼、先生、徐旭生、黄文弼等人出席，商讨改组事宜。〔《徐旭生文集》第10册，页1491〕
《申报》，1947年11月9日，第2版。
按：此次改组应由胡适发起，选出新理事四十人，胡适、马衡、徐佩琨、徐旭生、袁复礼、梅贻琦、先生、傅斯年、杭立武等人当选，其中前五人为常务理事，此外欲向教育部申请预算、重新开展工作。
先生致信布朗，寄上援助战区图书馆的美国期刊分发的阶段性报告，并告知自己已经从该委员会中辞职，洪有丰接任该会秘书。
5 November, 1947
Dear Mr. Brown:
In addition to the report which we sent in September to the Committee on aid to libraries in war areas, we are sending you herewith an interim report on the distribution of American publications in China, together with a copy of my letter to Mr. L. J. Kipp. Please circulate the report among those of your colleagues who are interested in our work of distribution.
Owing to my other duties, I have resigned as Secretary of the Distribution Committee. Mr. Y. F. Hung, Librarian of the National Central University, is now taking my place as Secretary of the Committee.
Mr. Charles B. Shaw is now touring the country; but his chief interest lies in the development of the 13 Christian Colleges. You will hear from him before very long.
With kindest regards,
Yours sincerely
T. L. Yuan
〔国立北平图书馆英文信纸。The American Library Association Archives, China Projects File, Box 2, Books for China, Correspondence, 1947〕
按：此件为打字稿，落款处为先生签名，于12月5日送达。
十一月六日
先生致信朱家骅，再次申请批准平馆扩建费、来年经常费及购书费之预算。
骝先部长钧鉴：
敬陈者，此次政院核准之追加扩建费，各方来京申请者当不在少数，此中分配之困难当为各方所共谅。职馆经费年来未能大量增加，以致目前经费之拮据较北平任何机关为尤甚。数月以来，虽竭力紧缩、勉力支撑，但一切建设事业莫不陷于停顿。近有东北运来之宋本《说文解字》，为海内孤本，索价四千万元，以无力购买为奸商购去，焦灼之情不堪言状。至盼钧座对于职馆此次应领之扩改费特准从优分配，至少应与中央馆相等，此不得不请特予援助者一也。又明年度经常费，闻职馆经费已定为三亿五千元，而中央馆则定为四亿五千元，但职馆组织设有八组且分散于七处，虽无国际交换处之名义，但实际上与各国交换书报之数量实超出中央馆之上，拟恳钧座将明年度经常费增至四亿五千万元，俾各项事业不致中辍，此不得不请特予援助者又一也。迫切陈词，幸乞垂察。本拟来京面陈，以川资无着，特再函恳。敬候道祺。
职袁同礼敬上
十一月六日
北平图书馆三十六年度所领之经费
一月 扩充改良费 壹亿元
七月 扩充改良费 贰亿元
大楼修理费 壹亿五千万元
迄今尚欠□工人壹亿元，曾请钧部担任向四联总处借款，尚未奉到批示。
〔国立北平图书馆用笺。台北“中央研究院”近代史研究所档案馆，〈朱家骅〉，馆藏号301-01-09-054，页67-69〕
按：信中“闻职馆经费已定为三亿五千元，而中央馆则定为四亿五千元”应作“闻职馆经费已定为三亿五千万元，而中央馆则定为四亿五千万元”。此信为先生亲笔。
十一月七日
苏联在平使领馆举办国庆宴会，中方人士吴奇伟、张伯谨副市长、沈履、先生、马大猷、饶毓泰、雷海宗、张申府等人受邀与席。〔《华北日报》，1947年11月8日，第4版〕
按：吴奇伟（1891-1953），字晴云，号梧生，广东大埔人，国民革命军陆军中将。
法斯覆函先生，告知洛克菲勒基金会正在考虑给予资助平馆购买Recordak Model C-2，但需要等到明年，另外暂时不会考虑资助《图书季刊》英文本的编辑出版。
November 7, 1947
Dear Dr. Yuan:
In view of your letter of October 20 and your assurance that you can obtain without difficulty the necessary materials for operation of your laboratory, we are now prepared to recommend a grant in aid to the National Library of Peiping of $3, 500 for purchase of the Recordak, Model C-2, Camera which you need to complete your laboratory equipment. However, as our appropriation for this type of grant for the current year is exhausted, it will not be possible to obtain a decision with regard to this recommendation until after January 1, 1948. We shall let you know the result as soon as possible thereafter.
In your letter of October 16 to Mr. Stevens, you raise the question of a subsidy for continuing the publication of the Quarterly Bulletin of Chinese Bibliography. I believe that it is not practicable for us to obtain such a subsidy for you at this time. The aid given some years ago was an exception to the general rule that we are unable to obtain subsidies for publications-an exception which we are not able to repeat. I hope that the opportunity which you have had to demonstrate the value of the Quarterly Bulletin and to develop both subscriptions and exchanges for it will enable you to continue its publication without subsidy from us.
Sincerely yours,
Charles B. Fahs
〔Rockefeller Foundation. Series 601: China; Subseries 601. R: China-Humanities and Arts. Vol. Box 47. Folder 393〕
按：该函以航空信方式寄送，此件为录副。
十一月上中旬
先生因平馆经费支绌、工作无法继续，向教育部提交辞呈。〔《申报》，1947年11月12日，第7版〕
十一月十一日
先生致信田培林，询问教育部就平津区图书处理委员会中日文图书分配草案之意见。
伯苍次长钧鉴：
敬陈者，查平津区图书处理委员会拟将清理就绪之中日文图书先行分配一事，曾于本年十月十七日拟定分配办法草案，征询尊见，尚未奉到复示。兹以各大学需要较殷，屡来催促，又以天气渐寒，工作不便，似宜及早分配，如此房屋亦可腾出，更便整理。特肃芜缄，即希赐覆为荷。耑此，敬候勋祺。
袁同礼拜启
十一月十一日
〔中国第二历史档案馆，教育部档案·全卷宗五，国立北平图书馆京沪区及昆明办事处工作报告暨庶务方面的文书，案卷号11609〕
按：田培林（1893-1975），字伯苍，河南襄城人，1946年10月到教育部任常务次长。分配办法应为“日伪图书之中文书百分之四十给清华大学，百分之二十给北平研究院”。该信为文书代笔，落款处为先生签名。
平馆向教育部呈文一件，题为《请准转咨外交部将前发给本馆编纂钱存训赴美之官员护照再予延长一年》，具先生名并钤平馆印。
案查三十五年十二月本馆呈派编纂钱存训赴美协助运回善本书籍，并赴英美考察图书馆事业，请转咨外交部发给官员护照一案。奉三十六年二月初一日高字第〇五四四一号训令略开：经函准行政院秘书处转陈核准仰径向外交部洽领护照等因在案。惟该员因事于上月初旬始行抵美，前奉外交部发给之护照仅限一年，至来年二三月间即已期满。该员在美应办事宜尚未完毕，拟请代予转咨外交部，将该员钱存训所领之官员护照再予延长一年，俾资便利，理合具文呈请，伏乞鉴核，令准施行，实为公便。谨呈
教育部
国立北平图书馆馆长袁同礼（北平圕印）
三十六年十一月十一日
〔中国第二历史档案馆，教育部档案·全卷宗5，国立北平图书馆请拨员工学术研究补助费经常费有关文书，案卷号11616〕
十一月十二日
晨七时，美国图书馆专家沙本生乘坐飞机离平赴武汉考察，先生及毛准等赴机场送行。〔《华北日报》，1947年11月13日，第5版〕
下午一时，平津国立院校谈话会假北平研究院会议室举行，郑天挺、黄钰生（南开）、钟世铭（北洋）、殷祖英（师院）、徐佩琨（铁院）、牛文清（大辞典编纂处）、金涛（唐山工学院）、杨光弼（北平研究院）等十余人参加，钟世铭为会议主席，杨光弼记录。首由郑天挺报告向中央信托局及北平行辕商洽各院校教职员冬煤之经过，并转述胡适已接教育部朱家骅来电告知冬煤款项即将汇平。继由殷祖英、黄钰生报告教育部配售各院校学生、职工面粉情况。议决事项分别为，各院校联署电请教育部速拨公用煤款，由郑天挺起草，各院校亦分别电催；行辕核准用煤标准及时间跨度，增聘、转聘教职员分配方法；下次联席会议拟于十二月十日由清华大学主持。四时，会议结束。〔《华北日报》，1947年11月13日，第5版〕
十一月十三日
朱家骅覆函先生，表示平馆追加的扩充改良费不会比央图少，但后者的复员费、经常费因故确实较多。
守和先生大鉴：
接奉本月三日及六日先后手书，忻聆种切。北平图书馆经费困难，弟所深知且极关切，此次分配追加之扩充改良费时，自当特为留意，决不比中央图书馆为少，况平馆规模宏大、成绩卓著，向为弟所重视，年来特拨之款转多，亦为兄所深知，幸纾绮注。去年本部核拨复员费时，中央图书馆由渝回京，一切运输费用与职员川资费，确甚需要，且京馆原有之一切设备大都遗落，迄今尚馆舍未建，更无一安全适当之书库，其所需复员、修建等费，非同其他机关诸尚完好者可比，除第一次复员费之外，亦恐不比尊处为多。至各机关每年度经常费，部中编造核算时，须照预算按照战前旧有预算为标准，此实不合理，亦为本部年来所力争不成者。中央图书馆之正式成立系在战时，一因当时法币贬值，故底数或稍较大，亦不可知。又因一向负部委托兼办国际出版品之交换业务，所费不少，此事列有一数，亦有可能也。因复并及，顺颂台祺。
弟朱家骅拜启
三十六年十一月十三日
〔教育部部长室用笺。国家图书馆档案，档案编号1945-※057-综合5-005007和1945-※057-综合5-005008〕
按：此件为打字稿，落款处为朱家骅签名。
十一月十五日
先生致信史密斯森协会，询问平馆尚未收到此前国会图书馆寄送目录卡片的装运日期和邮轮名称，并希望今后可以将每批交换品的信息在运华前告知。
15 November, 1947
Dear Sirs:
The American Library Association informed us in June that the Library of Congress Catalog of Printed Cards consisting of 167 volumes was sent to us through the kindness of your Service. Since we have not received it for so long, we shall be grateful to you if you would inform us of the date of shipment and the name of the steamer on which this Catalog was shipped.
Before the War, we used to receive notices from you in regard to every shipment. This arrangement keeps us informed in advance of your shipments. We hope that in future you will follow the same procedure, so that we shall be notified of every shipment from your Service.
This Library was added to the Depository Library of U. S. Government publications. We hope it will be possible for you to send us the notice of shipment for the cases of these documents.
A number of correspondents in America have been sending us their publications through your Service. If you could include all the packages for this Library in one box, it would save a lot of distribution work by the Chinese Bureau of International Exchanges.
With many thanks for your assistance,
Yours sincerely
T. L. Yuan
Director
〔国立北平图书馆英文信纸。Smithsonian Institution Archives, Records, 1868-1988（Record Unit 509），Box 1, National Library, Peiping〕
按：此件为打字稿，先生对信文有修改，落款处为其签名，于11月25日送达。
十一月十七日
Frederick Cromwell覆函先生，告知由洛克菲勒基金会资助购买的援助战区图书馆的一九四六年出版书刊已寄送上海英美捐赠图书期刊分配委员会。
November 17, 1947
Dear Dr. Yuan:
It is our happy privilege to tell you that it is again possible, under our Rockefeller Foundation grant, to send to China a selection of books, this time, titles published in the year 1946. They are being sent directly from the publishers addressed as follows:
Chinese Committee on the Distribution of Books
c/o Academia Sinica
37b Brenan Road
Shanghai, China
GIFT OF AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Perhaps some of them have already been received. We enclose for your information a list of the titles in this third supplementary shipment.
Allow us to express our gratitude to the Chinese Committee on the Distribution of Books for its courtesy and cooperation in distributing these books, also, to the libraries in China where they will be most useful.
Yours sincerely,
Frederick Cromwell
Director
〔The American Library Association Archives, China Projects File, Box 2, Books for China, 1944-47, Folder 1〕
Ludington，Flora B.，and Frederick Cromwell. “A. L. A. International Activities.”ALA Bulletin, vol. 41, no. 11, 1947, pp. 353-359.
按：Frederick Cromwell, 1947年4月1日出任美国图书馆协会国际关系委员会主任。
该函寄送北平，此为抄件，附件书单不存。
十一月十八日
先生致信王云五、陈克文、浦薛凤，请行政院就平馆经常费、购书费格外关注。
云五院长钧鉴、克文、逷生吾兄惠鉴：
前奉瑞电，诸承指示，至以为感。敬陈者，敝馆现有预算，原系按照渝昆分馆暨北平总馆复员后，临时维持费综合核定，为数无多。比年以来，为经费所限，一切设施无法进展，虽经费屡有增加，皆系比例调整，而物价狂涨，依然不敷分配，捉襟见肘，困难滋深。报载三十七年度预算系由贵院主编，拟恳对于敝馆格外垂注，将经常部分锡予增加。此外并恳加入购书专款，俾采购事业不致中断。敝馆在事变前由中华教育文化基会每年拨给中文购书费国币拾万元、西文购书费美金三万元。抗战以来，庚款停付，此项购书费亦即停止，今后购藏新旧图籍不得不仰赖拨给专款，事关文化，谅荷赞助，务希于审核下年预算时，赐予注意。专此奉恳，顺候勋祺，伏维垂察，不具。
弟袁〇〇
卅六，十一，十八
〔国家图书馆档案，档案编号1945-※057-综合5-022002和1945-※057-综合5-022003〕
按：浦薛凤（1900-1997），字逷生，江苏常熟人，清华学校毕业后赴美留学，获哈佛大学硕士学位，归国后在东陆大学、浙江大学、清华大学等处执教，后又赴德国留学，抗战期间转入政界，时任行政院副秘书长。此件为底稿。
先生致信法斯，向洛克菲勒基金会申请补助用以购买便携式照相机，并请该基金会资助平馆缩微实验室周转所需耗材的预付款。
18 November, 1947
Dear Dr. Fahs:
I acknowledge with many thanks the receipt of your letter of November 7 informing me that you are now prepared to recommend a grant of $3,500 to the National Library for the purchase of a Recordak camera for our photoduplication laboratory. As soon as your recommendation is approved, I hope your purchasing department could place the order for us.
Since writing to you last, we have sent the head of our Rare Book Department to Ningpo, Chekiang, to make preliminary arrangements to microfilm the basic historical materials still preserved at that city and its neighborhood. He reported that in the famous Fan family library at Ningpo known as Tien I Ko, there are many rare and unique books and manuscripts of the Ming Dynasty which are not found elsewhere in China.
In addition to the rare items in the Tien I Ko library, there are also important private collections in out-of-the-way places whose owners are unwilling to lend their books and manuscripts, though they could not object to microfilming them at their home. Since there is no electricity in Ningpo and its neighborhood, it will be desirable to have a portable camera which is necessary to enable us to microfilm materials that cannot be sent to Peiping. I shall be exceedingly grateful to you if you could include it in the equipment which the Foundation is prepared to purchase for us out of your grant.
For our photoduplication laboratory a revolving fund is desired to enable us to advance the cost of photographic materials and films, the operating cost of the laboratory will be met out of our own budget for running expenses of the library, but the cost of photographic materials and films cannot be so met, particularly in view of Chinese exchange regulations, for while the Government allots us foreign exchange now and then, it cannot be used to buy materials that are not for our own use. This revolving fund will not be expendable, but only used to pay in advance the cost of materials that will ultimately be paid for by other libraries. In view of the time and the routine involved in importing supplies from abroad, it would be desirable for us to place a large initial order. According to our rough estimate, $3,800 to $4,500 would be necessary depending upon prices and how many American and European libraries would need our films.
A member of our staff is now in Japan making preliminary survey of Chinese historical materials which we would like to microfilm. A portable camera will be especially needed in Japan.
It is therefore our sincere hope that you and Dr. Stevens will see your way to recommending to your Trustees an additional grant for a portable camera and a revolving fund.
Assuring you once more of our sincere appreciation for your interest and assistance, I am
Sincerely yours
T. L. Yuan
Director
〔国立北平图书馆英文信纸。Rockefeller Foundation. Series 601: China; Subseries 601. R: China-Humanities and Arts. Vol. Box 47. Folder 393〕
按：the head of our Rare Book Department即赵万里，Tien I Ko即天一阁。此件为打字稿，落款处为先生签名。
十一月十九日
上午，先生给徐旭生打电话，告知本日下午四时图书处理委员会在北京大学孑民堂开会，此前将日伪图书之中文书百分之四十给清华大学，百分之二十给北平研究院（历史研究所）之建议，教育部覆文不赞同。〔《徐旭生文集》第10册，页1494〕
十一月二十日
《徐旭生文集》（第10册，页1495）记作“嘉应寺”，有误。
下午二时，沈兼士的家人在地安门外嘉兴寺
举行家祭，胡适、梅贻琦、先生、袁敦礼、郑天挺、徐旭生等人前往吊唁。〔《民国日报》（天津），1947年11月21日，第4版〕
按：9月16日，沈兼士去世；11月21日，移棂西郊福田公墓安葬。
十一月二十一日
田培林覆函先生，告日伪图书应以教育部部定办法分配。
守和馆长吾兄大鉴：
接诵十一月十一日惠书，藉谉种切。关于平津区图书处理委员会拟将清理就绪之图书先行分配，以便腾出房屋，更便整理一事，自属切要。业已由部电知处理会依照部定办法办理矣。知关廑注，特以奉闻。专此奉复，并颂勋祺。
弟田〇〇敬启
十一月 日
〔中国第二历史档案馆，教育部档案·全卷宗五，国立北平图书馆京沪区及昆明办事处工作报告暨庶务方面的文书，案卷号11609〕
按：此件为底稿，该函于21日发出。
十一月二十二日
先生致信朱家骅，请教育部在所拨扩充改良费中考虑增加款项，以便平馆兴建书库。
骝先部长钧鉴：
接奉十一月十三日钧札，敬悉种切。敝馆需款情形，仰蒙垂注，感不去心，自当敬谨遵承。惟敝馆自复员后，增加及接收之书籍为数甚多，原有书库早已不敷应用，故此次追加扩充改良费恳予从优分配，藉资添建书库，非敢过事奢求，此中困难情形谅蒙钧察。拟恳仍本素来爱护敝馆之殷，特予加拨建筑书库用费，俾得早日兴工，至为企盼。肃复，恭候勋祺。
职袁同礼谨启
十一月二十二日
〔台北“中央研究院”近代史研究所档案馆，〈朱家骅〉，馆藏号301-01-09-054〕
按：此信为文书代笔，落款处钤先生名章。
十一月二十三日
上午，先生、袁敦礼赴清华大学访袁复礼。午后，在其处遇徐旭生。随后，徐旭生至燕京大学临湖轩听哲学讨论会，会后搭先生汽车返城。〔《徐旭生文集》第10册，页1495〕
按：此次哲学讨论会主讲人为陈康，讲题为“哲学的将来”。
十一月二十五日
史密斯森协会覆函先生，告知此前寄出的四箱书刊及其他六箱美国政府出版物实际发出时间，并表示无法按前请将寄送平馆的书刊单独包装。
November 25, 1947
Dear Dr. Yuan:
Reference is made to your letter of November 15.
The American Library Association has advised the Institution that the four cases received from Brock & Rankin on July 30, 1947 and bearing the address of your library contained the volumes to which you refer. It is understood that it is the practice of the American Library Association to notify the intended recipient that the publications are being sent at the time that the Association places the order with the printer. This would explain the fact that you were notified in June although the publications were not received at this Institution until July 30.
The four cases were numbered 522 to 525, inclusive, and were included in a shipment made to the Chinese Exchange Bureau on August 21. This shipment left New York on the U. S. Lines SS PIONEER WAVE about August 25. Included in this shipment were six cases of official publications numbered 4752, 4794, 4835, 4876, 4917 and 4958, and the Chinese Exchange Bureau was informed that these were for the National Central Library in PEIPING.
The Institution regrets that due to limited working space and other factors, it would be impracticable to comply with your request to pack the individual packages for the National Library of Peiping in separate cases. Of course, the documents comprising the official exchange with the National Library of Peiping are packed in separate cases and the Chinese Exchange Bureau advised of the numbers of the cases.
Very truly yours,
Acting Chief
International Exchange Service
〔Smithsonian Institution Archives, Records, 1868-1988（Record Unit 509），Box 1, National Library, Peiping〕
按：Brock & Rankin应指芝加哥的一家出版社。该件为副本。
十一月二十六日
布朗覆先生两函，其一，告知将与克莱普一同访问日本，协助该国筹建国立图书馆，并可能前往中国，但行程会比较紧凑。
November 26, 1947
Dear Dr. Yuan:
I have wanted to write you for a long time but some matters were pending which could not be discussed until the projects were further along.
In view of the many requests from China to send to China some American technicians in the field of cataloging, etc., we have started some projects which we hope will materialize. So far, they are only in the formative stage.
I have been asked by our War Department to make a short trip to Japan to make recommendations in regard to the organization of a national library in Japan. Mr. Verner W. Clapp, Associate Director of the Library of Congress, and I expect to embark on an Army plane from San Francisco on December 7th. We shall probably be in Japan for thirty days.
I am hoping to make a flying trip from Tokyo to Shanghai, Nanking, and Peiping. I shall probably be in China not over three weeks, but I want to see some university presidents, Miss Bouchard of the American Embassy, some of my library friends, and more especially, you. The trip is not yet definite, but it seems probable that I shall be in China sometime in January. It will be a great pleasure to see you again and my many friends in China. I regret that my trip must be so hurried.
We are mailing this week a number of films and shall send you copies of our letters transmitting the films in a few days.
Yours very truly,
Charles H. Brown
Associate Director
其二，告知已收到汇来的额外一千美元，为中国各大学编制购买书刊目录的工作将于本年底结束，并就此前发送给中国的期刊分配比例表示称赞，对部分书籍糟糕的品相表示歉意。
November 26, 1947
Dear Dr. Yuan:
I have received with much pleasure a note stating that the check for $1,000 to pay for the additional work on the compilation of books for Chinese universities has been received. May I thank you for your interest in the matter and for your prompt attention to our request for an additional $1,000 in view of the nature of the work. This project will be entirely cleared up, I believe, at the end of this year. The Universal Trading Corporation did report that some of the funds received for the purchase of these books had been used for laboratory equipment, etc. but apparently the decrease in the funds for the purchase of these books was not as serious as we had anticipated.
Furthermore, may I express my pleasure in the allocation of the periodicals from the American Library Association. We figure that about 40%of the periodicals were allocated to private colleges, which is more than we would have thought necessary.
I am sorry about the poor condition of some of the books sent over by the American Book Center, but the shipments from United China Relief were all packed up and were transmitted without opening the boxes. The donations from American libraries were sorted in Washington before shipment, but those from the United China Relief, I understand, were sent as the boxes were received. Books which are in poor condition, of course, should be disposed of in China.
Yours very truly,
Charles H. Brown
Associate Director
〔The American Library Association Archives, China Projects File, Box 2, Chinese Universities, Correspondence, 1946-1947〕
按：1946年，United China Relief改组为“援华联合服务会”（United Service to China），1950年停止运营。
十一月二十七日
朱家骅覆函先生，告知扩充改良费早经核定并通知国库拨发，平馆建设新书库事请将计划呈报，待教育部来年有款时再予考虑。
守和先生大鉴：
顷获本月廿二日手书，忻聆种切。此次追加扩充改良费业经分配完毕，计平馆为六亿元，并早已通知国库速发。承嘱一节，因现年度瞬将届终，再行追加决无希望，部中统筹科目亦早已分配无余，经费支绌万分，即请先送建筑书库计划，俟明年一月后有款时，再行核拨可也。耑此奉复，顺颂台祺。
弟朱家〇顿首
廿七
〔台北“中央研究院”近代史研究所档案馆，〈朱家骅〉，馆藏号301-01-09-054〕
按：此件为底稿。28日，该函以航空信方式寄出。
十一月
法国巴黎国际风俗委员会（International Commission on Folk Art）函聘先生为该会副会长之一，并请协助收集中国的风俗资料，以利研究。〔《益世报》（北平），1947年11月27日，第4版〕
十二月五日
下午，袁复礼、先生访徐旭生，晤谈。〔《徐旭生文集》第10册，页1497〕
十二月十日
中午，平津地区国立各院校长谈话会在清华大学工字厅召开，胡适、袁敦礼、徐佩琨、徐悲鸿、先生及北平研究院、大辞典编纂处、南开、唐山工学院等处代表出席，梅贻琦为会议主席。〔《华北日报》，1947年12月10日，第5版〕
十二月十五日
Rae Cecilia Kipp覆函先生，收到十一月四日的报告并将其录副转发给国际关系委员会成员及其他相关人士，告知布朗将访华。
December 15, 1947
Dear Dr. Yuan:
Your letter and report of November 5 addressed to Mr. Charles H. Brown has been referred to the International Relations Office of the American Library Association for a reply. It gives us great pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of the additional information contained in your report of November 4. We have distributed copies to the Board and other interested persons.
Perhaps, by this time, you have heard from Mr. Brown that he expects to be in China within a month and will have the opportunity of seeing you in person and discussing library problems with you. He is looking forward to his trip to China with great interest and expectation.
In closing, may we say that it was very good of you to supplement our information on the distribution of the American Library Association's sets donated through the generosity of the Rockefeller Foundation. Your report will enable us to complete our records and to inform the Rockefeller Foundation concerning the distribution in China.
With Kindest regards,
Yours very sincerely
Mrs. Rae Cecilia Kipp
Executive Assistant
〔The American Library Association Archives, China Projects File, Box 2, Books for China, Correspondence, 1947〕
十二月二十二日
胡适致函先生，感谢先生捐赠实物与北京大学博物馆筹备处。
守和先生：
承惠赠美国总统威尔逊像片一张、西域人陶甬一件，本馆必慎重保管，公之士林，以副盛意。专函申谢，顺颂台绥。
胡适敬启
十二月二十二日
〔国立北京大学博物馆筹备处用笺。国家图书馆档案，档案编号1945-※057-综合5-002003〕
按：此信为文书代笔，暂系于此。
十二月二十四日
司徒雷登覆函先生，告知无暇赴先生午宴邀请。
Dec. 24, 1947
Dear Dr. Yuan:
I have your letter and appreciate your invitation for lunch with you during our stay in Peiping. Unfortunately, my days are completely filled. Mr. Fu is staying at his house in the city and may be free. His telephone is 20102.
With the season's greetings and my hearty thanks,
Very sincerely yours,
J. Leighton Stuart
〔燕京大学（教务长办公室）信纸。国家图书馆档案，档案编号1945-※057-综合5-017005〕
按：Mr. Fu应指傅泾波。该函为司徒雷登亲笔。
十二月二十七日
先生致信史密斯森协会，告知香港办事处早已不再使用，请该会将交换品包裹寄送北平。
27 December, 1947
Gentlemen:
We find that you are still using our war-time forwarding address in Hongkong（c/o Fung Ping Shan Library, 94 Bonham Road）. As with the end of the war we no longer maintain an office there, please address all documents to us in Peiping.
Yours truly
T. L. Yuan
Director
〔国立北平图书馆英文信纸。Smithsonian Institution Archives, Records, 1868-1988（Record Unit 509），Box 1, National Library, Peiping〕
按：此件为打字稿，落款处为先生签名。