Descriptive Summary |
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| Creator: | Waley, Arthur D. |
| Title: | Arthur D. Waley Papers |
| Dates: | 1912–1961 |
| Quantity: | 8.75 cubic feet (23 boxes, 1 oversize folder, 2 oversize scrolls, including printed matter) |
| Abstract: | Correspondence, chiefly letters received (1938-1962); letter to Clive Bell (1917); drafts of published works dealing primarily with Chinese civilization; notes on Asian languages; unpublished fictional pieces; published articles; corrected page proofs of several books; pamphlets relating to Asian subjects, and letters (1918-1962) of friends and associates, together with papers of Beryl de Zoete (1884-1962): letters received (1912-1961), notes and drafts of writings on folk dance and the drama; typescript copies of English translations of articles in French and Italian; journals (1939-1940, 1954); address and appointment books; and miscellaneous printed items dealing with folk dance and other topics. |
| Collection No.: | MC 1494 |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: | Rutgers University Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives |
Arthur D. Waley Papers, MC 1494, Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.
This section provides descriptions of the materials found within each series. Each series description is followed by a container list, which gives the titles of the "containers" (for example, folders, volumes, or cassettes) and their locations in the numbered boxes that comprise the collection. The availability of any digital items from a container is indicated with a hyperlink.
| Arthur D. Waley Papers | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Arthur Waley: Letter to Clive Bell, 1919 | |||||||||
| [Acquired separately from the rest of the collection.] | |||||||||||
| 1a | “Arthur David Waley: A View from Within the Family,” by Margaret Waley. | ||||||||||
| 28 pages. | |||||||||||
| 2 | Beryl de Zoete: Letters received, 1912-1933 | ||||||||||
| [date?] | |||||||||||
| 3 | Beryl de Zoete: Letters received, 1925-1939 | ||||||||||
| 4 | Beryl de Zoete: Letters received, 1940 | ||||||||||
| 5 | Beryl de Zoete: Letters received, 1941-1946 | ||||||||||
| 6 | Beryl de Zoete: Letters received, 1948-1949 | ||||||||||
| 7 | Beryl de Zoete: Letters received, 1950 | ||||||||||
| 8 | Beryl de Zoete: Letters received, 1951-1954 | ||||||||||
| 9 | Beryl de Zoete: Letters received, 1955-1961 | ||||||||||
| 10 | Beryl de Zoete: Letters received, undated | ||||||||||
| 11 | Beryl de Zoete: Letters to Arthur Waley, undated | ||||||||||
| (from Europe) | |||||||||||
| 12 | Beryl de Zoete: Letters (cards and notes), undated | ||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1a | 1 | Arthur Waley: Letters received, 1941-1962 | |||||||||
| 2 | Arthur Waley: Post cards sent | ||||||||||
| 3 | Arthur Waley: Letters received, undated | ||||||||||
| Personal | |||||||||||
| 4 | Arthur Waley: Letters received, undated | ||||||||||
| Official and Literary | |||||||||||
| 5 | Arthur Waley: Articles written, [circa 1947-1962?] | ||||||||||
| 6 | Arthur Waley: Postcards received (includes separate de Zoete pack) [?] | ||||||||||
| 7 | Greeting cards: Christmas, New Years | ||||||||||
| 8 | “Problems” | ||||||||||
| [unidentified items left by processor, with some notes] | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2 | 1 | Beryl de Zoete: Postcards received | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | Arthur Waley: Notes on Chinese painting | |||||||||
| 2 | Arthur Waley: Short stories in English and Spanish | ||||||||||
| 3 | Beryl de Zoete: Letters to Arthur Waley, miscellaneous unclassifiable | ||||||||||
| 4 | Chinese and Japanese language notebooks | ||||||||||
| 5 | Chinese and Japanese (translated) poems and stories | ||||||||||
| 6 | Manuscript studies on Chinese Culture (Art and Literature), etc. | ||||||||||
| 7 | Manuscript and typescript writings on the Orient (China and India,including translations of poems and stories) | ||||||||||
| 8 | Articles about Waley and his works | ||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 4 | 1 | Arthur Waley: Materials relating to Japanese Imperialism, including Arthur Waley: Intelligence Summary book, 1942, manuscripts of articles on atrocities and co-prosperity [?] | |||||||||
| 2 | Arthur Waley: Articles | ||||||||||
| 3 | Arthur Waley: Writings in Chinese and French | ||||||||||
| 4 | Arthur Waley: Miscellaneous | ||||||||||
| 5 | Arthur Waley: Page proofs of books: The Temple and Other Poems (trans.), An Introduction to the Study of Chinese Painting with annotations, etc. | ||||||||||
| 6 | Arthur Waley: Miscellaneous | ||||||||||
| 7 | Holograph Poems | ||||||||||
| 8 | [manuscripts in Japanese (?) characters] | ||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 5 | 1 | Arthur Waley: Manuscripts and typescripts: The Opium War Through Chinese Eyes | |||||||||
| 2 | Copy of Francis A. Johns’s Bibliography of Arthur Waley, 1968 | ||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 6 | 1 | Photographs [and one drawing]: People | |||||||||
| 2 | Beryl de Zoete: Photographs: the Dance [includes negatives] | ||||||||||
| 3 | Beryl de Zoete: Photographs: the Dance | ||||||||||
| 4 | Photographs: Places (Asia) | ||||||||||
| 5 | Beryl de Zoete: Manuscript notes on “Persian Vocabularies” and poems | ||||||||||
| 6 | Poems and poets: DeLacenda, Edith Sitwell, Camilla Doyle, etc. | ||||||||||
| 7 | Photographs [and negatives] of Waley: Original property of Francis A. Johns | ||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 7 | 1 | Beryl de Zoete: de Zoete Family tree | |||||||||
| 2 | Beryl de Zoete: Miscellaneous manuscripts and reviews | ||||||||||
| 3 | Beryl de Zoete: Miscellaneous manuscripts, mostly about dance | ||||||||||
| 4 | Beryl de Zoete: Manuscript articles about dance, circa 1940s | ||||||||||
| 5 | Beryl de Zoete: Miscellaneous notes on Indian dance | ||||||||||
| 6 | Beryl de Zoete: Typescript: “Make-Up at the Keral Kalamandalam,”1935 and “Kathakali” | ||||||||||
| 7 | Beryl de Zoete: Manuscript notes: Dance in India, circa 1950s | ||||||||||
| 8 | Beryl de Zoete: Manuscript: The Other Mind | ||||||||||
| 9 | Beryl de Zoete: Part of manuscript: The Other Mind | ||||||||||
| 10 | Beryl de Zoete: Notes: Indian Dance and Culture | ||||||||||
| 11 | Beryl de Zoete: Manuscript: “Dalcroze Lessons” with annotations by Edith Driver, teacher in Eurythmics | ||||||||||
| (not Emile Dalcroze as stated in the Preliminary Inventory) | |||||||||||
| 12 | Beryl de Zoete: Typescripts: “Puran at Trichur” (1935), reviews of two books on Indian painting, The Dasarupa | ||||||||||
| 13 | Beryl de Zoete: Typescript: Percival: An Account of the Island of Ceylon and Lord Valentia: Voyages and Travels | ||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 8 | 1 | Beryl de Zoete: Miscellaneous notes including lecture and language notes | |||||||||
| 2 | Beryl de Zoete: Miscellaneous manuscript notes | ||||||||||
| 3 | Beryl de Zoete: Typescript articles and reviews including “Plea for Dance Study as a Branch of Anthropology” | ||||||||||
| 4 | Beryl de Zoete: Miscellaneous manuscript notes | ||||||||||
| 5 | Beryl de Zoete: Miscellaneous typescripts and reviews | ||||||||||
| 6 | Beryl de Zoete: Manuscript notes (in French) | ||||||||||
| 7 | Beryl de Zoete: Language notes | ||||||||||
| 8-11 | [Unidentified manuscripts in German and English and perhaps part of deZoete’s play on Medea] | ||||||||||
| 12 | Alberto Moravia typescript and letters to de Zoete | ||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 9 | 1 | Beryl de Zoete: Notes on dance | |||||||||
| 2-3 | Beryl de Zoete: Address books | ||||||||||
| 4 | Beryl de Zoete: Ledger, 1923-1925 | ||||||||||
| 5 | Beryl de Zoete: Notes on German dance, notes on Soviet Union | ||||||||||
| 6 | Beryl de Zoete: Miscellaneous notes | ||||||||||
| 7 | Beryl de Zoete: Notes on ballet (German) | ||||||||||
| 8 | Beryl de Zoete: Sketchbook Digital item |
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| 9 | Beryl de Zoete: Notebook, including description of visit to Oxford, part of short story | ||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 10 | 1 | Notes on Folk Dances, Travel Log, etc. [also some Eurythmics] | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 11 | 1 | Miscellaneous fragments, circulars, etc. | |||||||||
| 2 | Sheet music (Folk dance) | ||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 12 | 1 | Civilization of the Mayans, J. Eric Thomson, annotated | |||||||||
| 2 | Beryl de Zoete: Newspaper clippings about the Dance | ||||||||||
| 3 | Beryl de Zoete: Published articles (clippings) | ||||||||||
| 4-7 | Beryl de Zoete: Pamphlets [by others] on the Dance | ||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 13 | 1-2 | Arthur Waley: Studies in Chinese and Japanese civilizations | |||||||||
| 3 | Arthur Waley: Pamphlets: Asian studies | ||||||||||
| 4 | Arthur Waley: Articles and pamphlets relating to Asian studies | ||||||||||
| 5 | Arthur Waley: Published writing | ||||||||||
| 6-7 | Arthur Waley: Studies and pamphlets on Japan and China | ||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 14 | 1 | Asian art subjects and miscellaneous | |||||||||
| [includes cloth-like Japanese items] | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 15-20 | Extraneous printed material | ||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 21 | 1 | Beryl de Zoete: Notebooks with notes on dances and feasts | |||||||||
| 2 | Beryl de Zoete: War Journal [“War Diary”] | ||||||||||
| 3 | Beryl de Zoete: Book reviews including A House in Bali by Colin McPhee and Indian Art and Architecture by Benjamin Roland, Drama of Orokolo by F.E. Williams | ||||||||||
| 4 | Beryl de Zoete: Manuscripts: Sunday lectures and broadcasts, mostly about ballet | ||||||||||
| 5 | Beryl de Zoete: Miscellaneous notes and poems | ||||||||||
| 6 | Beryl de Zoete: Part of play about Medea | ||||||||||
| 7 | Beryl de Zoete: Manuscript of “The Ballad of Young Beichan” | ||||||||||
| 8 | Beryl de Zoete: 1954 diary | ||||||||||
| 9 | Beryl de Zoete: Typescript notes on Castes and Tribes of Southern India and Serpent Worship in Malabar | ||||||||||
| 10 | Beryl de Zoete: Manuscript play: “Hilda and [Pergron?],” undated | ||||||||||
| 11 | Beryl de Zoete: Westminster diary | ||||||||||
| 12 | Beryl de Zoete: Travel journal, China, 1957 | ||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 22 | 1 | Beryl de Zoete: Balinesian stories, translated (?) | |||||||||
| 2 | Beryl de Zoete: Notes on Folk dancing, Bali, undated | ||||||||||
| 3 | Beryl de Zoete: General notes about dance | ||||||||||
| 4 | Beryl de Zoete: Notes on Legong Dance, Bali | ||||||||||
| 5 | Beryl de Zoete: Notes on Wajang Wong, Balinesian drama | ||||||||||
| 6 | Beryl de Zoete: Notes on dance in Bali | ||||||||||
| 7 | Beryl de Zoete: Notes on Djanger dance, Bali, etc. | ||||||||||
| 8 | Beryl de Zoete: Notes on Indonesian dances | ||||||||||
| 9 | Beryl de Zoete: Notes on Contemporary American dances | ||||||||||
| 10 | Beryl de Zoete: Notes on Folk dances, 1923; 1926 | ||||||||||
| 11 | Beryl de Zoete: Juvenilia | ||||||||||
| 12 | Beryl de Zoete: Notes on photography | ||||||||||
| 13 | Beryl de Zoete: Notes on schools of dancing in India | ||||||||||