Journeys On The Silk Road Part 11

"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 w.a.n.g, 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, 17531973; John Forsd.y.k.e, "The Museum in War-time," The British Museum Quarterly, vol XV (1952), pp 19; 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 n.a.z.is. 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 18621943," obituary from the Proceedings of the British Academy, vol 29 (1943), pp 45365.

"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 18621943," obituary from the Proceedings of the British Academy, vol 29, pp 45365.

"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, 19068-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.

"amateurish and shallow slop": Geddeth Smith, Walter Hampden, Dean of the American Theatre, p 230.

"It's not philosophy": Gary Snyder, interview by Joyce Morgan, March 24, 2010.

"The main problem for me": Dr. Paul Harrison, interview by Joyce Morgan, August 25, 2009.

"all great texts": Walter Benjamin, "The Task of the Translator," in Selected Writings, vol 1, 19131936, p 263.

"The essential part": Professor Robert Thurman, interview by Joyce Morgan, September 30, 2009.

"That does not mean": His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, interview by Joyce Morgan, December 1, 2009.

"The Diamond Sutra specifically states": Yoon Han, interview by Conrad Walters, August 3, 2010.

"Andrew started reading": Renate Ogilvie, interview by Joyce Morgan, June 28, 2010.

CHAPTER 18: s.h.i.+FTING SANDS.

"If you look very closely": Mark Barnard, interview by authors, April 7, 2009.

"It was always something": Dr. Frances Wood, interview by authors, March 16, 2009.

"Everybody in all the collections": Dr. Susan Whitfield, interview by Joyce Morgan, March 10, 2009.

"imagine how we should feel": Arthur Waley, Ballads and Stories from Tun-huang, pp 23738.

On Stein as a looter: Gansu Provincial People's Government Information Office, Dunhuang sees Great Changes over the Years, p 141.

CHAPTER 19: SCROLL FORWARD.

"One of the most challenging issues": Dr. w.a.n.g Xudong, interview by Joyce Morgan, October 26, 2007.

"The Terracotta Warriors": Dr. Neville Agnew, interview by Joyce Morgan, November 20, 2007.

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