Journeys on the Silk Road (41 page)

“He recognized me when I stroked him”: Aurel Stein,
Ruins of Desert Cathay,
vol 2, p 467.

“What he succumbed to”: Bodleian, Stein MS 5, Stein to Allen, October 16, 1908.

“The world appeared to shrink”: Aurel Stein,
Ruins of Desert Cathay,
vol 2, p 480.

“The aid of an experienced surgeon”: ibid., p 483.

“so gorged they could hardly move”: David Fraser,
The Marches of Hindustan: The record of a journey in Thibet, Trans-Himalayan India, Chinese Turkestan, Russian Turkestan and Persia,
p 264.

“Here fell Andrew Dalgleish”: Charles Murray, Earl of Dunmore, “Journeyings in the Pamirs and Central Asia,”
The Geographical Journal,
vol 2, no 5 (November 1893), p 386.

On the disputed territory of the Siachen Glacier: Tim McGirk and Aravind Adiga, “War at the Top of the World,”
Time Asia,
May 4, 2005.

“Dr [Schmitt] assures me”: Bodleian, Stein MS 5, Stein to Allen, October 16, 1908.

“I never thought of such a communication”: ibid., November 16, 1908.

“If you have a chance”: ibid., October 26, 1908.

“Things might have fared a great deal worse”: Bodleian, Stein MS 37, Stein to Andrews, November 14, 1908.

On Stein’s health in India: Annabel Walker,
Aurel Stein: Pioneer of the Silk Road,
p 187.

“May kindly divinities protect them”: Bodleian, Stein MS 5, Stein to Allen, December 17, 1908.

CHAPTER
13:
YESTERDAY
,
HAVING
DRUNK
TOO
MUCH
D
RUNK . . .

“the value of a domestic slave”: Lionel Giles,
Six Centuries at Tunhuang,
p 36.

“Chief of the hundred plants”: ibid., p 28.

“Yesterday, having drunk too much”: ibid., pp 33–34.

“Yesterday, Sir, while in your cups”: ibid., p 34.

“Even if Heaven and Earth collapse”: Lionel Giles, “Dated Chinese Manuscripts in the Stein Collection,”
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies,
University of London, vol 11, no 1 (1943), p 160.

“What had this neat, almost calligraphic manuscript”: Aurel Stein,
Ruins of Desert Cathay,
vol 2, p 187.

“Jesus the Buddha”: Tsui Chi (translator), “The Lower (Second?) Section of the Manichean Hymns,”
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies,
University of London, vol 11, no 1 (1943), pp 174–219.

“Nestorian Christians could safely address their prayers to”: Bodleian, Stein MS 91, Stein to von Le Coq, March 14, 1926.

“Iron snakes belched fire”: Victor H. Mair,
Tun-huang Popular Narratives,
pp 87–88.

Extensive work on the Dunhuang medical manuscripts has been undertaken by Wang Shumin. See http://idp.bl.uk/4DCGI/education/ medicine_society/abstracts.a4d.

On the importance of almanacs: Susan Whitfield and Ursula Sims-Williams,
The Silk Road: Travel, trade, war and faith,
p 82. See also: Susan Whitfield, “Under the Censor’s Eye: Printed Almanacs and Censorship in Ninth-Century China,”
British Library Journal,
vol 24, part 1, 1998, pp 4–22.

On the Dunhuang star chart: Jean-Marc Bonnet-Bidaud, Françoise Praderie and Susan Whitfield, “The Dunhuang Chinese Sky: A Comprehensive Study of the Oldest Known Star Atlas,”
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage,
vol 12, no 1 (March 2009), pp 39–59.

On the painted silk banner retrieved by Paul Pelliot: Joseph Needham,
Science and Civilisation in China,
vol 5, part 7, pp 222–23.

On paper flowers: Susan Whitfield and Ursula Sims-Williams,
The Silk Road: Travel, trade, war and faith,
p 268.

CHAPTER
14:
STORMY
DEBUT

“I am afraid you will find”: Jeannette Mirsky,
Sir Aurel Stein: Archaeological explorer,
p 87.

“In the course of my explorations”: British Museum archives, CE 32/23/23/2, Stein letter, May 20, 1909.

“The cellar has been made”: Bodleian, Stein MS 37, Andrews to Stein, August 11, 1909.

“He has true British terrier blood”: “Dog Explorer: Adventures of a Fox Terrier,”
Daily Mail,
May 26, 1909.

The story of Stein’s camp chair: George Macartney, “Explorations in Central Asia, 1906–8—Discussion,”
The Geographical Journal,
vol 34, no 3 (September 1909), p 265.

For more on Florence Lorimer, see Helen Wang’s article “Stein’s Recording Angel—Miss F.M.G. Lorimer,”
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society,
series 3, 8, 2 (1998), pp 207–228.

For more on the manuscripts sent to Pelliot in Paris, see Frances Wood’s article “A Tentative Listing of the Stein Manuscripts in Paris 1911–1919.” In
Sir Aurel Stein, Colleagues and Collections.
British Museum Research Publication Number 184, 2012. www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/12_Wood%20(Tentative%20listiing).pdf.

“extravagant multiplication of limbs”:
Festival of Empire, 1911, Guide Book and Catalogue,
Bemrose & Sons, London, 1911, p 17.

“epoch-making importance”: “Buddhist Paintings at the Festival of Empire,”
The Times,
September 7, 1911.

“Greatly delighted was I”: Aurel Stein,
Ruins of Desert Cathay,
vol 2, p 189.

Stein captions his photograph: “Roll of block-printed Buddhist text with frontispiece from wood-engraving, dated 864AD.” Elsewhere he refers to the scroll with “a date of production corresponding to 860AD.” See
Ruins of Desert Cathay,
vol 2, fig 191 and p 189.

“Late last night”: Bodleian, Stein MS 8, Stein to Allen, June 17, 1912.

“Many congratulations”: Bodleian, Stein MS 12, Allen to Stein, June 1912.

“I cannot express on paper”: Bodleian, Stein MS 96, Chiang to Stein, July 30, 1912.

“Mr. Macartney has been kind to me”: ibid.

“Deaf as he is”: Bodleian, Stein MS 96, Macartney to Stein, October 14, 1912.

“Chiang-ssu-yeh can’t quite make up his mind”: Bodleian, Stein MS 41, Macartney to Stein, February 12, 1913.

“Massacres of Chinese officials”: Bodleian, Stein MS 96, Macartney to Stein, May 24, 1912.

“Finally there is the substantial printed roll”: British Library archives, Or 13114, “Correspondence with M. Pelliot regarding Chinese documents,” October 2, 1912. This information courtesy of Dr. Frances Wood.

“The more I see of this glorious land”: Bodleian, Stein MS 40, Stein to Andrews, May 6, 1912.

“In a way I am sorry”: Bodleian, Stein MS 42, Stein to Andrews, June 29, 1913.

“the Queen wore a hat”: “The King and the Museum,”
The Times,
May 8, 1914, p 4.

“The King and Queen”: “The British Museum: The New Edward VII Wing,”
Manchester Guardian,
May 8, 1914.

“His two greatest finds”: “Wonders of the East: Exhibits in the British Museum Extension,”
The Times,
May 7, 1914, p 5.

“There was a succession”: Bodleian, Stein MS 94, Lorimer to Stein, May 8, 1914.

“He is better qualified”: Bodleian, Stein MS 89, Stein to Kenyon, June 30, 1913.

“If you should prefer”: British Museum archives, CE32/23/50/1, Barnett to Kenyon, August 11, 1913.

“It is from every point of view desirable”: British Museum archives, CE 32/23/49, Stein to Kenyon, July 1, 1913.

“The museums in this country”: British Museum archives, CE32/23/54, Government of India, August 20, 1914.

“Mr Andrews’s disadvantages in the matter”: British Museum archives, CE 32/23/82-2, Binyon to Kenyon, November 25, 1916.

CHAPTER
15:
TREASURE
HUNTERS

“as jovial & benign”: Bodleian, Stein MS 11, Stein to Allen, March 27, 1914.

“Honest Wang, the priest”: ibid., April 3, 1914.

“There was nothing to do but gasp”: Langdon Warner,
The Long Old Road in China,
p 211.

“Across some of these lovely faces”: Langdon Warner,
Langdon Warner Through His Letters,
edited by Theodore Bowie, Warner to his wife, Lorraine Roosevelt Warner, p 115.

“My job is to break my neck”: ibid., p 116.

“As for the morals of such vandalism”: ibid., Warner to Hamilton Bell, p 118.

“Each one visits the caves”: ibid.

“No vandal hand but mine”: Langdon Warner,
The Long Old Road in China,
p 220.

“neither of whom could ever come back and live”: Langdon Warner,
Langdon Warner Through His Letters,
edited by Theodore Bowie, Warner to Lorraine Roosevelt Warner, p 128.

“Otherwise it is no longer scientific archaeology”: British Museum archives, CE32/24/25, National Commission for the Preservation of Antiquities, Beijing, China. Received by British Museum January 5, 1931.

“still in the stage of grinding”: “China and her Treasures. Hampering the Scientist,”
The Times,
March 30, 1931, p 11.

CHAPTER
16:
HANGMAN
'
S
HILL

On World War II: The authors have drawn on the following sources, which proved invaluable in reconstructing wartime events. P.R. Harris,
A History of the British Museum Library, 1753–1973;
John Forsdyke, “The Museum in War-time,”
The British Museum Quarterly,
vol XV (1952), pp 1–9; Jacob Leveen, “The British Museum Collections in Aberystwyth,”
Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion,
1946; David Jenkins,
A Refuge in Peace and War: The National Library of Wales to 1952,
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, 2002; N.J. McCamley,
Saving Britain’s Art Treasures From the Nazis.
See also Joyce Morgan’s article “The Stein Collection and World War II.” In
Sir Aurel Stein, Colleagues and Collections.
British Museum Research Publication Number 184, 2012. www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/14_Morgan%20REV.pdf.

“suicide exhibition”: Marjorie Caygill, “1939: Evacuating the BM’s treasures,”
British Museum Society Bulletin,
no 62, Winter 1989, p 21.

“Stein Sahib is some kind of supernatural being”: C.E.A.W. Oldham, “Sir Aurel Stein 1862–1943,” obituary from the
Proceedings of the British Academy,
vol 29 (1943), pp 453–65.

“but his age of 60 shows”: quoted in Jeannette Mirsky,
Sir Aurel Stein: Archaeological explorer,
p 546.

“I have had a wonderful life”: “Sir Aurel Stein,”
The Times,
November 4, 1943, p 7.

“As Marco Polo is regarded”: C.E.A.W. Oldham, “Sir Aurel Stein 1862–1943,” obituary from the
Proceedings of the British Academy,
vol 29, pp 453–65.

“the last of the great student-explorers”: Percy M. Sykes, “Sir Aurel Stein,”
Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society,
1944, vol 31, part 1, p 5.

“He brought to light”: “Obituary, Sir Aurel Stein,”
The Times,
October 28, 1943.

“Like Odysseus”: Lionel Barnett, “Explorations in Central Asia, 1906–8—Discussion,”
The Geographical Journal,
vol 34, no 3 (September 1909), p 265.

“One cannot help feeling”: Peter Hopkirk,
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road,
p 229.

CHAPTER
17:
FACETS
OF
A
JEWEL