Memoirs of Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, consisting of:
- 'The dead past', 1943
- 'Decadence Mandchoue', 1942-3
- Final typescript version of 'The dead past', 1943
- Final typescript version of 'Decadence Mandchoue', 1943
Memoirs of Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse
This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Reference
- GB 161 MSS. Eng. misc. d. 1223-6
- Dates of Creation
- 1942-3
- Language of Material
- English.
- Physical Description
- 4 shelfmarks
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse (1873-1944) was a historian and sinologist. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.
Access Information
Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/specialcollections).
Acquisition Information
The memoirs were bequeathed to the Library by Reinhard Hoeppli in 1973.
Note
Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.
Other Finding Aids
M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 45669-72.
Alternative Form Available
For conservation reasons, microfilms, on open access in the Modern Papers and John Johnson Reading Room, are to be consulted in place of the original papers.
Bibliography
The collection was used in H.R. Trevor-Roper, Hermit of Peking, the hidden life of Sir Edmund Backhouse (London, 1979).