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CHINA THROUGH WESTERN EYES
Manuscript Records of Traders, Travellers, Missionaries and Diplomats, 1792-1842
Part 7: The Diaries of G E Morrison (1862-1920), Peking correspondent of The Times from 1897, and political adviser to the President of China, 1912-1920, from the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
CONTENTS OF REELS
REEL 104
ML MSS 312/2 (items 1-16; there is no item 11) 3 Apr 1878- 16 Mar 1890
ML MSS 312/3 ‘Diary of a tramp’ 30 Dec 1880- 13 Feb 1881
ML MSS 312 covers 3 April 1878 to 25 Feb 1881 in 10 separate items, with a few omissions and duplications. The diaries continue from 16 Dec 1889 to 16 Mar 1890 (5 items) Note this does not include diaries for 1882-1889.
REEL 105
ML MSS 312/2 (items 1-16 continued; there is no item 11) 3 Apr 1878- 16 Mar 1890
ML MSS 312/4 (item 1) ‘A cruise in a Queensland slaver: by a medical student’ 1882
(Reel 105 includes some miscellaneous diary items—not relating to Morrison or his family– from the mid 19th century. They are included because of their Australian interest.)
REEL 106
ML MSS 312/5-7 Jan– June and July- Dec 1896 and 13 Nov 1889- 19 June 1890
At the end of this reel (from frame 1181) is a fragment, 16 May– 30 July; this is undated but internal evidence would suggest a date of 1900. This fragment is not found in the current arrangement of the Morrison papers.
REEL 107
ML MSS 312/9 (items 1-2) 1899-1901
ML MSS 312/10 (item 1)
REEL 108
ML MSS 312/10 (item 2) 1902-1904
ML MSS 312/11
REEL 109
ML MSS 312/12-13 1905-1906
REEL 110
ML MSS 312/14-15 1907
REEL 111
ML MSS 312/16 1908- Mar 1909
ML MSS 312/17 (item 1)
REEL 112
ML MSS 312/17 (items 2-4)
Apr 1909- 1910
ML MSS 312/18
REEL 113
ML MSS 312/19 Jan 1911- 18 Jan 1912
REEL 114
ML MSS 312/20 1912- Oct 1913
ML MSS 312/21 (items 1-3)
In a letter drafted to a friend called Hulton or Hutton (July 8 1912), Morrison reviews his financial position, employment prospects and marriage.
REEL 115
ML MSS 312/22-23 and 312/24 (item 1) 1914- Mar 1916
REEL 116
ML MSS 312/24 (items 2-4) Apr 1916- 1917
ML MSS 312/25 (items 1 and 3)
REEL 117
ML MSS 312/26 1918-1920
REEL 118
ML MSS 312/27 (items 1-4) 1910, 1912-1914
REEL 119
ML MSS 312/27 (items 5-8) 1915-1918
REEL 120
ML MSS 312/27 (items 9-14) 1919-1920
Note that the second diary for 1919 lacks pages 209-210.
REEL 121
ML MSS 312/29 1899-1910
Edited from his diaries by JB Capper, 1922-1925, and intended for publication. Note that because of how these pages are bound, some of the images are quite dark
REEL 122
ML MSS 312/33 (item 1) Reminiscences dictated to his wife, and diaries
ML MSS 312/33 (items 2-3) Typescript of diary 1899
ML MSS 312/33 (item 4) Typescript of diary 1900
Note that the Reminiscences lack pages 33-34, 39-57.
ML MSS 312/34 (item 1) Typescript 15 Aug- 31 Dec 1900
Note that the diary for 1900 misses pages 30, 110,112, 115-117.
REEL 123
ML MSS 312/34 (items 2-3) Typescript of diary 1901
ML MSS 312/288 Copies of Morrison’s articles published in The Times, Jan- Jun 1900
Note that there is no frame 8.
ML MSS 312/289 Copies of Morrison’s articles published in The Times, 2- 24 Jul 1900
ML MSS 312/290 Copies of Morrison’s articles published in The Times, 25 Jul- 29 Aug 1900
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