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0357 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO SCHOOL OF CHINESE STUDIES ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM July 16, 1946 100 QUEENS PARK TORONTO 5 Prof or Bernhard Karlgren Östasiatiska Samlingarna Stockholm, Sweden Dear Professor Karlgren: Before asking for your help perhaps I should bother you with a few worås of introduetion. I am an American, a former student of Lessing and Booädberg under whom I took my Ph.D. in Chinese at t...
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0357 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO SCHOOL OF CHINESE STUDIES ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM July 16, 1946 100 QUEENS PARK TORONTO 5 Prof or Bernhard Karlgren Östasiatiska Samlingarna Stockholm, Sweden Dear Professor Karlgren: Before asking for your help perhaps I should bother you with a few worås of introduetion. I am an American, a former student of Lessing and Booädberg under whom I took my Ph.D. in Chinese at the University of California in 1942, I was on the staff there for a time and then was called into the service of the Intelligence Branch of the U.S. Navy. last July I received en offer from Bishop White to come here whieh I gladly accepted as I am very anxious to get some training in Chinese archaeology. I am now Assistent Keeper of the Chinese collection and Acting Director of the School of Chinese Studies (the Bishop is now in China), but unfortunately most of my tine is taken up with teaching and administration. I am trying, however, to do a little more interesting work in whet spare time I can find and at present am working on our collection of early bronze spear-heads. Yesterday we received a very exciting shipment in the form of the war year issues of the BUFEA, Your paper on Yin tools and weapons was extremely stimulating and informative and leads me to ask for your help. I have been unable to find any stone prototypes of the bronze spear in China. Are there any? I have also been unable to locate examples of the earlier types (tanged as contrasted a with socketed) in the evolution of the spear. Do these exist? If the answer to both of these questions is "no", then does that inälicate that the spear was imported into China in an already fully developed form? I should like very much to have your opinion on the four = objeots in the enclosed illustration. Are they dagger blades, or are they tanged spear-heads? Bishop White once considered them $9 be daggers but now is of the opinion that they are spear-heads. The design is in low relief and the butt ends of the three with lugs are somewhat blunted, apparently as they came from the molds. I am not absolutely certain, but I believe that allfour came from Anyang. Your decision will bem much appreciated. It is unfortunate in the extreme that you did not have pocess to whatever of our material (BMFEA 17,p.113) that may have been of use to you in your awork on weapons and other subjects. Although we have very limited funds for photography, please remember, Professor Karlgren, that I am always ready and anxious to help you in whatever way I can. Please never hesitate to call upon me for information or illustrations of anything in our gollections and I will supply as much as possible. Cooperation is very helpful in this field, if not necessary. Yours very truly, ”urs very y R Vr » / (EUS (ES Kelal fd Richard C. Rudolph
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