一九三一年 三十七岁
三十七岁
一月二日
蒋梦麟偕先生、顾临离平赴沪，出席中基会会议。〔《大公报》（天津），1931年1月5日，第3版〕
一月六日 上海
午后，先生访黄郛，谈松江韩氏古书出售事。黄郛即唤辰侄来，嘱其与先生接洽。晚，先生访刘承幹，但未得见面。〔《黄郛日记（1931-1932）》，页2；《求恕斋日记》（稿本）〕
《黄郛日记（1929-1930）》，页130、135。
按：“辰侄”应指黄尧年，因此前与平馆洽商韩氏古籍出售事宜，黄郛都委托于其侄“尧年”。
本日书版展览会闭幕，刘承幹至亚尔培路参观，晚归，恐甚累，故未见。
一月八日
先生访刘承幹，先由其子陪同，后得见，告平馆情形。〔《求恕斋日记》（稿本）〕
按：前平馆谢国桢、赵万里二人至嘉业堂、上海访书，因种种原因与刘承幹产生误会。先生此次拜访极有可能请其原谅，刘承幹对先生印象甚好。本日，刘承幹嘱记室拟函致平馆，内容如下，
北平图书馆诸公均鉴：
展奉大函，承惠丛书四种，敬审诸公搜罗善本，沾溉来学，拜嘉志感，曷云能忘。拙刊各书，多有赠罄，尚未再版者，现在正将各本加以整理，特先检奉〇种，附上一单，希察存，不足云琼瑶之报也。寄售一节，敝处正在规画，容再奉告。专复并谢，敬请撰安。
〇〇〇顿首
一月八日即十一月二十日
〔上海图书馆藏求恕斋信稿〕
沈亢父（1898-1956），名家权，字刚甫，号亢父，长期担任刘承幹的记室。
按：刘承幹之信多由其记室沈家权
代笔，以下皆同。
一月九日
中基会第五次常会假沧州饭店召开，蔡元培、蒋梦麟、胡适、赵元任、任鸿隽、司徒雷登、顾临、贝克、孟禄等董事出席。上午九时至十二时，由平馆、生活调查所、社会研究所等所属机构职员报告工作情况，并由该会干事处、秘书处报告财务情况。下午讨论中基会今后的工作方针。〔《时事新报》（上海），1931年1月11日，第3张第4版〕
按：先生作为平馆代理馆长应列席并报告馆务。
一月十二日 杭州
《余绍宋日记》原文为“得梁廷灿寄赠北平图书馆新印李越缦遗著六种”，此处应指1930年12月在上海石印的《越缦堂文集》，因平馆前出“读史札记”、“读书记”等，故有“遗著”之说，包括杂著、散文、赠序、碑铭、尺牍、骈文，该文集由王重民主编。
上午，先生访余绍宋，告知平馆愿代印《书画书录解题》，因先生态度诚恳，余绍宋遂接受此请。下午，余绍宋回访，先生因出，不值。余绍宋留片，谓其书稿应照《越缦堂文集》
样式刊印。〔《余绍宋日记》第6册，北京：北京图书馆出版社，2003年，页545〕
按：1932年6月，《书画书录解题》由平馆出版，黄节署耑，全书共六册，实价四元。
一月十四日
恒慕义覆函先生，告知已收到此前代购书籍，另与先生商讨邀请韩寿萱前往国会图书馆编目的可能性。
January 14, 1931
Dear Mr. Yuan:
I have your letter of December 16, containing the voucher for the TSUI CHIN TZU PU. This came in splendid condition and we are very much pleased with it. I am pleased also to have the gazetteers and especially the Ming edition of the SAN KUO CHIH.
As soon as Mr. Wang left for Havana, I had in mind to write you concerning a qualified Chinese cataloger to succeed him. You had sent a very good man, Mr. Yen, to Columbia University who was in Washington for two days in December and who has impressed me very much both with his gentlemanness and his ability.
For years, however, I have had in mind a Mr. Han Shou-hsuan, a student in the Research Institute of Peking National University. He was my teacher in the Language School at Peking, and since then has made Chinese history and philosophy his specialty. He has consented to come, and will be leaving Peking in about two weeks. My idea was to have not only a man who would do the more or less routine work of cataloging, but who himself wishes to specialize in Chinese, and would, therefore, be able to answer authentically and speedily numerous questions on all phases of Chinese culture which came to us. Because I felt that Mr. Han had just these qualifications, and because I knew his temperament, I felt that I could not make a mistake in engaging him to work with me in Washington much as he did in Peking. Later on, it is the intention of the Librarian to invite a highly qualified Chinese Consultant at a salary of, say, $5,000 per year who would be in the Library to answer just these questions that Mr. Han and I are having to answer now. While we have now Consultants in most of the other fields, we have not yet the funds to engage one for the Chinese field. But I am sure that this will come later. In the meantime, I felt I must have the type of assistant who could in a measure perform both services. I thank you, however, for offering to engage a man for us, and had I not known of Mr. Han, I certainly should have appealed to you long before this time. If the present arrangement does not work out, I shall seek for your help later on.
With kind wishes for the New Year, and many thanks for the recent items you have sent us, I remain,
Very sincerely yours,
Arthur W. Hummel,
Chief, Division of Chinese Literature.
〔Library of Congress Archives, Arthur W. Hummel Sr. correspondence series, MSS86324〕
《北京大学日刊》，1931年6月29日、30日，7月18日、21日、25日。
按：TSUI CHIN TZU PU其音似为“最近族谱”，具体指何书待考。Mr. Wang应指王文山。本年2月下旬，韩寿萱离开北平，由天津出发经日本赴美，3月21日抵达华盛顿，随即在国会图书馆服务。
该件为录副。
一月中上旬
先生赴南浔嘉业堂。〔《求恕斋日记》（稿本）〕
按：此行一重要目的为查看刘承幹藏《宋会要》的情况。
一月十七日
加斯基尔致函先生，告知康乃尔大学前已汇出款项及所需中华图书馆协会出版物，并求购函套。
January 17, 1931
Dear Mr. Yuan,
Thank you very much for all the books you have sent, and especially for the volume of Lin Tse-hsü documents. I am having $25 gold sent by the University treasurer, which you ought to get on the same mail as this letter or soon after, to pay the balance of $29.95 Mex. due on the statement of Dec. 6 and the bill dated Nov. 8, 1930 for Museum and Library reprints, and leave a small deposit.
The last number of the Bulletin of the Library Association of China which we have is vol. 5, no. 5（April 1930）and of the Chinese Library Science Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 4（Dec. 1928）. Will you kindly send us whatever of both journals has been published since these and enter our subscription to both.
And will you send us, if you can conveniently, a copy of the booklet entitled Libraries in China published in 1929.
Only one other request I have this time-will you be so good as to have covers made（those for the I wu shih mo are just right）for whatever Chinese books you send us in the future.
We have not made as much progress as we would like with the photostating of the Yung Lo ta tien, but we hope to have at least one volume done sometime this spring.
With best wishes,
Sincerely yours,
〔Cornell University Library, Wason Collection Records, 1918-1988, Box 1, Folder Koo, T. K. Letters〕
按：此件为底稿。
一月十八日 上海
上午，先生访刘承幹，因时尚早，未得见。后得刘承幹来函，邀请明日赴宴。
守和先生史席：
前承枉顾，深慰瞻仰止之私，猥以匆匆未得畅谈。今晨又辱高轩，有失屣迎，歉仄奚似。明晚在寓薄治杯盘，敬请台光，万勿见却。承索《湖录经籍考》，兹特检奉，并《五代史》、《明史考证捃逸》、《郑堂读书记》共四种，藉备插架。其送贵馆四十五种，明日再行奉上。专此，敬请旅安。
弟〇〇〇顿首
一月十八日即十一月三十日
〔《求恕斋日记》（稿本）；上海图书馆藏求恕斋信稿〕
按：此件为底稿。
一月十九日
晚，刘承幹设宴款待先生，汤中、董康、张芹伯、吴潜甫、徐乃昌、费有容等作陪，张元济、张宗祥、罗子敬因病未到，入座已八点钟。先生表示平馆意欲影印《宋会要》，故须向刘承幹购版权，待影印后原样奉还，且出价四千元。刘承幹认为平馆意在流通，与其志向相同，故同意，但须将其名和序言照刊，先生皆允诺。席后略谈而散。〔《求恕斋日记》（稿本）；徐乃昌著、南江涛整理《徐乃昌日记》，南京：凤凰出版社，2020年，页1233〕
樊荫南编纂《当代中国名人录》，上海：良友图书印刷公司，1931年，页315。
按：席间，诸人曾谈宋版《春秋》《豫章黄先生文集》等书的去向。汤中，字爱理，江苏武进人，日本私立大学法科毕业，曾任教育部编纂、专门教育司司长、参事、代理次长等。
张芹伯即张乃熊（1890-1945），浙江吴兴人，以字行，金融家、藏书家，“南浔四象”张钧衡长子，张静江之侄。费有容（？—1931），字恕皆，浙江乌程人。
一月二十三日
晚九时，中国政治学会在南池子门神库会所举行年会，选举下届职员，到会者约有五十人。颜惠庆作为主席致辞，名誉书记朱友渔宣读上届年会记录，并获通过。严鹤龄代表选举提名团提交候选职员名单：会长张煜全、首席副会长顾临、次席副会长朱友渔、名誉书记周诒春、名誉会计丹贝和魏文彬，蒋廷黻、周永治、先生、福开森、颜惠庆为执行会委员，周诒春、张立流、蒋廷黻、先生、严鹤龄为管理图书馆委员，以上名单顺利通过。后又请伦敦大学经济系教授Richard H. Tawney演讲欧洲农业建设情形，约十一时散。〔《世界日报》，1931年1月25日，第6版〕
按：朱友渔（1885-1986），上海人，社会活动家，上海圣约翰大学毕业，后赴美留学，先后获得哥伦比亚大学、纽约神学院博士学位。严鹤龄（1879-1937），字履勤，浙江余姚人，上海圣约翰大学毕业，后赴美留学，1911年获哥伦比亚大学博士学位，归国后历任外交部秘书、清华学校校长、巴黎和会中国代表团专门委员，时应任太平洋国际学会帮办秘书长。Richard H. Tawney（1880-1962），英国经济史学家、社会评论家、伦理社会主义者，著有Religion and the Rise of Capitalism（《宗教与资本主义的兴起》）。
一月二十六日
下午四时，北平文化展览会假北平研究院会议室召开筹备大会，李石曾、朱启钤等四十余人到场，推李石曾、李麟玉、萧瑜、吴瀛、沈兼士、马衡、朱启钤、乐均士、常惠、翁文灏、瞿宣颖、卓定谋、吕志琴、陈垣、先生等十五人为临时筹备委员，负责分期筹备文化展览，并以十年为限，其中第一期为本年七月至双十节，经费以三十万元为限。〔《南京晚报》，1931年1月30日，第3版〕
按：李麟玉（1888-1975），字圣章，天津人，中国著名教育家、化学家，原中法大学校长，李叔同的侄子，毕业于法国巴黎大学理科，获理科硕士学位和昂西化学院化学技师。
一二月间
平馆向哈佛燕京学社申请津贴印制目录卡片。〔《裘开明年谱》，页58、73〕
按：3月26日，时在美国的田洪都致信裘开明，请其在平代为调查此项申请。裘开明对此应持支持态度，他曾向伍兹教授（James H. Woods）和博晨光（Lucius C. Porter）提出燕京大学图书馆与平馆合作开展印制馆藏目录卡片，因其认为平馆的馆藏是北平一地其他图书馆无法超越的，错失合作机会太不明智。这一动议应促进了后来的北平地区图书馆的联合编目事业。
二月十四日
恒慕义致函先生，请平馆寄送某种重印书籍以便购买，施永高则希望继续获得草药、医学相关的书籍。
February 14, 1931
Dear Mr. Yuan:
We are anxious to have all of the Reprints of the National Library, Peiping as they make their appearance. Dr. Swingle is particularly anxious to have such herbals and medical works as you may print. It seems that up to the present we have only the two following works:
Perhaps it is most convenient if you send these on approval, for it is difficult for the Library to order, or make payments for such series in advance. I merely write to make certain that we get them, and any other important works that you think we ought to have.
Very sincerely yours,
Arthur W. Hummel,
Chief, Division of Chinese Literature
〔Library of Congress Archives, Arthur W. Hummel Sr. correspondence series, MSS86324〕
按：空格和空行处，皆付诸阙如。该件为录副。
二月十九日
上午，金毓黻赴北海图书馆，与先生晤谈。下午，二人一同至中南海居仁堂平馆第一部参观，徐森玉为之导引，先生赠其《全边略纪》。〔《静晤室日记》第4册，沈阳：辽沈书社，1993年，页2561〕
按：此为金毓黻与先生首次见面，其甚感念。
二月二十六日
刘承幹致函先生。〔《求恕斋日记》（稿本）〕
三月二十三日
先生为Union Catalogue of Books in European Languages in Peiping Libraries撰写英文序言。〔Union Catalogue of Books in European Languages in Peiping Libraries, 1931〕
按：该书中文名为《北平各图书馆所藏西文书联合目录》，由平馆和国立北平研究院联合出版。
三月二十四日
下午三时，杨宗培赴北海图书馆参观，本拟拜访先生讨论图书馆建筑事宜，但因先生外出未能晤谈。〔《民国日报》（北平），1931年3月25日，第5版〕
按：杨宗培（1903—？），辽宁建平人，北平汇文大学毕业，后赴美留学，获明尼苏达州立大学商学硕士学位，归国后曾担任北平中国学院教授、北平市立商业学校教务主任、国立西北联合大学讲师等职务。
四月初
中政会通过北平文化指导整理委员会全体委员名单，正会长蒋介石，副会长张学良、李石曾，委员于右任、于学忠、王宠惠、王正廷、王揖唐等数十人，先生被推选为委员之一。〔《大公报》（天津），1931年4月3日，第3版〕
四月五日
下午三时，北平图书馆协会假艺文中学仁山图书馆举行本年第一次常会，四十余人与会。先生表示常会早应召开，但因无适当讲演人员，故推迟到今日，本次会议仅讨论——“北平中小学校图书馆问题”，并讨论相关议案六件。会后，公布本届执行监察委员选举结果，先生、罗静轩、于震寰、冯陈祖怡、洪有丰、薛培元、汪长炳七人当选。〔《中华图书馆协会会报》第6卷第5期，1931年4月30日，页27-29〕
按：薛培元，字燮之，河北临城人，曾留学日本、美国，获得农学硕士学位，后任河北省立农学院院长。
四月八日
上午九时半，故宫博物院图书馆专门委员会在寿安宫阅览室举行第八次会议，易培基、江瀚、先生、卢弼、赵万里、张允亮、朱希祖、朱师辙、马衡等人出席，江瀚为会议主席。会议大致内容如下：
（一）江瀚报告影印《天禄琳琅丛书》情况。
先生表示京华印书局估价先按六百部计算，每页九元五，现改印五百部，每页八元二角五，需洋二万五千元，但现印费只有一万元，当尽此数印起，并据京华估计一月可印五百页，三月可印完。
议决：宋元版书七种交京华承印。
（二）江瀚提议溥杰取去之善本书应设法取回。易培基、马衡等人多有建议。
议决：俟有头绪再商办法。
（三）易培基报告松江韩应陛藏书售卖事。
（四）江瀚报告古物陈列所有天禄琳琅零本，宜提至故宫博物院汇藏一处，先生附议。
另，先生建议再印志书书目拟用中国纸，以备将来与他库书目归存一处；文献馆有实录三部，图书馆可提一部置殿本书库以供阅览。
十二时散会。〔故宫博物院档案〕
按：“天禄琳琅零本”似指宋版《刘宾客集》。
四月二十八日
先生致信彭道仁，告知装运圆明园等处石料进城的路线。
葆初学长赐鉴：
前以敝馆装运石狮石料等，诸蒙照拂，无任感谢。今日奉电，嘱以装运石料所经路线各节，当即转告包运商人饬由海淀至西直门一段，至不能避免地方可以经行马路入西直门后，由顺城街向南转经平则门大街，以免毁损马路。仍恳转予传知以上各工区，随时妥为照料，至深感泐，统容面谢，顺颂台祺。
同学弟袁同礼拜启
四月二十八日
〔北京市档案馆，档案编号J017-001-00461〕
北平市政府工务局《工务合刊（民国二十年二十一年份）》，1932年，页375。
按：彭道仁，字葆初，宛平人，国立北洋大学工科毕业，时任北平市工务局施工股主任。
此信为文书代笔。
四月
中华图书馆协会公布执行委员、监察委员改选结果，先生、李小缘、胡庆生、沈祖荣、杜定友、柳诒徵、杨立诚、毛坤均得以连任。〔《中华图书馆协会会报》第6卷第5期，页22-23〕
按：本年1月，以上八人前五人为届满之执行委员，后三人为届满之监察委员。
五月十二日
徐中舒等致函先生，请求于平馆新舍内为史语所开辟阅览室一间。
守和先生箸席：
贵馆新屋落成，规模宏丽，为东方图书馆之冠冕。同人等从事史言研究，须用参考书籍至夥，务恳在贵馆新屋中为同人等指定阅览室一间，藉予研讨便利。此后同人等对于斯学倘有些须贡献，皆出厚惠也。专此奉商，并希见复为荷。敬请箸安。
徐中舒等
〔台北“中央研究院”历史语言研究所傅斯年图书馆，“史语所档案”，元394-1〕
按：落款处有“中华民国廿年五月拾贰日”戳。附清单一纸，傅斯年标注“傅斯年、陈寅恪、董彦堂、李济之、徐中舒、丁山保留一间”。
五月十八日
北平市市政设计委员会聘请朱启钤、熊希龄、李石曾、蔡元培、江瀚、蒋梦麟、沈尹默、傅增湘、陈垣、周作民、胡适、先生等三十三人为该会委员。
按：此后，市长胡若愚签署聘函，内容如下，
敬启者，北平名传汉世，地处幽州。席累代之故都，控北陲之形胜。人文荟萃，中外具瞻。况正筹企繁荣，恢复文化。因革损益，经纬万端。将广益以集思，应周咨而博采。兹由本府设立市政设计委员会。事豫则立，图百废俱举之宏观。谋定而行，作一劳永逸之远计。式资俊彦，宏我旧京。特具聘函，用申景仰。组织规则，附尘清察。愿摅□略，资筹策以匡襄。期奉芳型，效韦弦之纫佩。肃修笺牍，祗候兴居。
〔《北平市市政公报》第96期，1931年5月，市府文电，页8；《世界日报》，1931年5月20日，第7版〕
五月中下旬
王正廷、王宠佑、余日章、沈祖荣、周诒春、洪业、孙洪芬、先生、曾宪文、裘开明等数十人联名撰写《美国韦棣华女士追悼大会启事》。
敬启者，美国韦棣华女士来华三十载，专以发展我国文化事业，提倡图书馆教育为己任。不幸于五月一日逝世，噩耗传来，仝人等不胜震悼。谨定于六月十三日下午二时在武昌文华公书林司徒厅举行追悼大会，如蒙各界人士惠赐诔文、挽联、哀诗、奠仪等物，请径至武昌文华公书林代收是幸。
〔《华北日报》，1931年5月25日，第1版〕
按：5月1日，韦棣华女士突然离世。
五月二十三日
下午，王献唐访先生，晤谈。〔张书学、李勇慧撰《王献唐年谱长编》，上海：华东师范大学出版社，2017年，页175〕
按：是日，王献唐与栾调甫抵达北平，调查杨氏抵押海源阁藏书。午后，先赴史语所拜访傅斯年并见所中同人；后访傅增湘，获赠新刻《双鉴楼藏书续记》。晚，傅斯年设宴招待。
五月二十四日
中午，先生设宴款待王献唐，并邀赵万里作陪。饭后一同参观平馆之新馆舍，出示新购杨氏海源阁藏书多种及宋本、敦煌卷子，王献唐因时间仓促未能细看。〔《王献唐年谱长编》，页175〕
按：上午，王献唐赴史语所看新发掘的古物。下午，与栾调甫往中南海公园游览。晚，史语所同人请客吃饭。
六月一日
北平图书馆协会执委会在中海居仁堂举行会议，推洪有丰为主席，委员有于震寰、罗静轩、冯陈祖怡、汪长炳、薛培元、先生六人，先生专职负责组织演讲。〔《中华图书馆协会会报》第6卷第6期，1931年6月30日，页16〕
晚，留欧美归国学生组织的“家庭会”在东单三条孟烈士特（Monestier）家举行第十六次跳舞大会，该会会长陈宝堂担任招待，比利时代办葛拉富（Graeffe）、法使馆沙叶夫妇（Chayet）、工务局长汪申、先生、朱家健夫妇、陈绵夫妇等人出席。〔《大公报》（天津），1931年6月3日，第5版〕
按：Monestier即Alphonse Monestier（1881-1955），曾长期担任La Politique de Pékin（《北京政闻报》）主笔。
六月四日
故宫博物院致函李石曾、李宗侗、俞同奎、江瀚、沈兼士、马衡、吴瀛、先生、沈尹默、刘半农、徐旭生等人，召集各馆、处负责人于七日上午开会协商处理无关文化之用品事宜。
径启者，查本院前拟处分无关文化一切皮货、药材、食品、绸缎等物，及宫门外破屋材料等物，曾由理事会临时决定监察委员会规则呈奉国府行政院照准备案。兹拟成立临时监察委员会遵照该规则第一、二条之规定，处分无关文化历史文物品，订于是月七日（星期日）上午十时，在本院开会讨论一切。届时敬希拨冗莅临为荷。此致李理事长石曾、李理事玄伯、俞理事星枢、江理事叔海、沈副馆长兼士、马副馆长叔平、吴秘书景洲、袁副馆长守和、沈先生尹默、程先生松生、刘先生半农、徐先生旭生。
故宫博物院启
二十年六月四日
〔马思猛编著《马衡年谱长编》，北京：故宫出版社，2020年，页384〕
按：“程先生松生”似指程千云（1891-1968），浙江宁海人，时应任北平大学工学院院长。
六月六日
晚八时，平馆委员会召开会议，傅斯年、周诒春、刘半农、任鸿隽、陈垣、先生出席。会议讨论议案如下：
（一）审核下年度（1931-1932）预算。图书馆提出下年度经常费预算十万九千八百九十四元二角，设备费预算（购书费除外）二万八千六百八十元，两项共计十三万八千五百七十四元二角。议决：下年度经常费和设备费预算定为十四万元，所增加之一千四百廿五元八角应归入杂费项下；预算内之出版费应另行提出以便与收入款项对照。
（二）下年度购书费，议决：暂定中文书十万元，西文书美金三万五千元，其中中文书部分至少以五万元为特种购置费。
（三）新馆落成典礼程序略加删改。
（四）审定馆长推荐之职员，编纂委员刘节、王庸，馆员陈贯吾、张秀民、徐俊。
（五）补助谢国桢留日期间每月津贴六十元，责其购买日文书籍，为期二年，期满后仍回本馆服务。
（六）阅览时间，夏季（六七八月）上午八时至下午九时，春秋冬上午九时至下午十时；办公时间，夏季上午八时至十二时，下午三时至五时，冬季上午九时至十二时，下午一时半至五时；阅览组组员应按阅览时间轮流值日；馆员经馆长同意，一年内可休假两星期。
（七）馆务报告。
十时二十分散会。〔《北京图书馆馆史资料汇编（1909-1949）》，页334〕
《国立北京大学毕业学生一览》，1930年，页126。《江苏教育概览（民国二十三年度）》，1935年，页226。
按：刘节，字子植，浙江永嘉人，清华大学国学研究院毕业，后曾任平馆金石部主任，钱稻孙女婿。王庸，字以中，江苏无锡人，清华大学国学研究院毕业，后曾任平馆舆图部主任。陈贯吾，原名陈毅，字贯吾，一字观悟，以字行，江苏江阴人，1917年北京大学预科第一部毕业
，1934年至1937年主持江苏省立镇江图书馆
，后又赴平馆驻沪办事处任职，曾主持编订《饮冰室藏书目录》。张秀民，字涤瞻，浙江嵊县人，后在中文编目组任职。徐俊，字仲长，北平人，后在总务部任职。
六月九日
先生致信斯文·赫定，告知兄长袁复礼、斯坦因、平馆等方面的近况。
June 9, 1931
Stockholm,
Sweden.
Dear Dr. Hedin:
I am glad to learn from your letter of May 8 that you have been successful in arousing interest regarding the explorations in Sinkiang. With your vivid personality and the results that you were able to present, there could have been no other outcome. You have done so much for the scientific renown of Sweden, and it is good to see that your nation has done well by you.
My brother is now on his way home, but there is little other news that I can give you. I suppose he attended to the packing of the specimens, etc., before he left Tihwa. I will ask him to write you as soon as he gets back in August.
According to the latest information, Sir Aurel Stein had been asked by Governor Chin to leave Sinkiang, and has probably left already. Contrary to his promise to the Central Government, Stein asked Gov. Chin to allow him to make excavation, which the Governor very properly refused and followed up with the request to leave.
The new building of the National Library will be formally opened on June 25, as you know already from the invitation sent to you last month. It is too bad that we cannot have you here with us on this occasion. All your Chinese friends here hope that we shall soon have the pleasure of welcoming you back in Peiping.
With best wishes.
Yours sincerely,
T. L. Yuan
〔韩琦教授提供〕
按：Tihwa即乌鲁木齐，Governor Chin应指金树仁（1879-1941），字德庵，甘肃永靖人，时任新疆省主席。此件为打字稿，落款处为先生签名。
六月十一日
晚，先生在德国饭店东院设宴，客有钱玄同等人。〔杨天石主编《钱玄同日记（整理本）》，北京：北京大学出版社，2014年，页806〕
按：时钱玄同为平馆题写碑文。
李书华覆函先生，告其因公无法返平，教育部已派蒋梦麟出席平馆新舍落成典礼。
守和先生左右：
顷读惠函，就谉贵馆定于本月二十五日举行落成典礼，毋任忭贺。承属返平参加一节，弟因公不能离京，已由部派梦麟先生就近前往矣。时序渐暑，诸希珍摄，余不一一。顺颂台祺。
弟李书华敬启
六月十一日
〔《华北日报》，1931年6月18日，第6版〕
按：李书华（1890-1979），字润章，河北昌黎县人，生物物理学家，1912年赴法留学，时任教育部次长。
六月十二日
傅斯年致函先生，请协助史语所罗常培到故宫博物院图书馆看书。
守和吾兄惠鉴：
顷闻清宫图书馆藏有袁子让《字学元元》一部，敝所同事罗常培君拟偕同书记唐虞前往阅览并摘抄。倘荷惠允介绍，即希通知典守专员，并发给入门凭证，无任感谢。如何之处，敬祈见复是盼。顺颂近祉。
弟斯年
六月十二日
〔台北“中央研究院”历史语言研究所傅斯年图书馆，“史语所档案”，元295-5〕
按：暂依《傅斯年遗札》将此函系于1931年。
六月十五日
先生致电蔡元培，询问其北上行期。〔《华北日报》，1931年6月18日，第6版〕
先生致信伯希和，告知平馆收到其寄赠的《通报》抽印本。
June 15, 1931
The Library has received from you
9 reprints from T'oung Pao
Paul Pelliot: Une Ville Musulmane Dans la Chine du Nord Sous les Mongols
" : Neuf Notes sur des Questions D'Asie Centrale
" : L'Edition Collective des Oeuvres de Wang Kouo-Wei
" : Les Bronzes de la Collection Eumorfopoulos Publies par M. W. P. Yetts（I et II）
" : Sur la Legende D'Utuz-Khan en Ecriture Ouigoure
" : Quelques Reflexions sur l'Art Siberien et l'Art Chinois A Propos de Bronzes de la Collection David-Weill：
" : Quelques Textes Chinois Concernant L'Indochine Hindouisee
" : Le Premier Voyage de “L'Amphitrite” en Chine.
a valued addition to its collections for which I have the honor to return grateful acknowledgments.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
T. L. Yuan
Acting Director
To Prof. Paul Pelliot,
38 Rue de Varenne,
Paris, VII, France.
〔韩琦《袁同礼致伯希和书信》，《国际汉学研究通讯》第26期，2023年7月，页118-119〕
六月十六日
蔡元培覆电先生，告北上行期待定。
国立北平图书馆袁守和兄鉴：
删电悉，行期定后即闻。
元培，铣。
〔《华北日报》，1931年6月18日，第6版〕
六月中旬
某记者来访，先生谈去岁购入样式雷经过，述其价值和意义，并表示平馆将开辟舆图室、模型室陈列。〔《大公报》（天津），1931年6月22日，第5版〕
六月二十一日
先生到平馆新舍视察。〔《华北日报》，1931年6月23日，第6版〕
按：新舍定于7月1日正式开馆，此时各屋油漆尚未干透，工友正在摆放书刊。
六月二十二日
下午，某记者来先生家采访，先生介绍平馆诸多方面，涉及建筑用费、经费概况、职员待遇、藏书价值、购书计划、合组前两馆不足、阅览时间、中外赠书、全国图书馆界近况等方面。〔《华北日报》，1931年6月23日，第2版〕
按：因平馆新舍即将举行开馆典礼，建筑费共用130万元，故颇受瞩目。
六月二十四日
上午十一时五十分，蔡元培、钱昌照乘平浦路列车抵达北平，李石曾、吴铁城、胡若愚、蒋梦麟、先生等数百人前往车站迎接。〔《华北日报》，1931年6月25日，第2版〕
按：此次蔡元培北上，除出席平馆新馆落成典礼，还将出席26日至27日中基会年会，其下榻之处为北海静心斋史语所。钱昌照时任教育部次长，奉命调查清华大学学潮。吴铁城（1888-1953），原籍广东香山，生于江西九江，时任国民政府委员会委员。
下午三时，北平设计委员会假中南海居仁堂举行成立典礼，胡若愚、朱启钤、王克敏、娄学熙、周作民、汪申、蔡元培、蒋梦麟、先生、庄蕴宽、李石曾、江瀚等三十一人到场，另有张继、易培基、吴南轩、傅增湘、陈垣等十一人未到。首由胡若愚致开会词，次由委员代表李石曾致答词。蔡元培对该会组织略有询问。四时十分，在居仁堂前摄影留念。〔《南京晚报》，1931年6月28日，第3版〕
按：吴南轩（1893-1980），原名吴冕，以字行，江苏仪征人，心理学家，因学潮刚卸任清华大学校长。
晚七时，先生在平馆新址设宴为蔡元培洗尘，李石曾、胡若愚、朱启钤、胡适、蒋梦麟等作陪。〔《华北日报》，1931年6月24日，第6版〕
六月二十五日
是日，国立北平图书馆举行新馆开幕仪式。馆长蔡元培、教育部代表蒋梦麟、中华教育文化基金董事会代表任鸿隽、市党部代表董霖、市长胡若愚等人先后致词，又李石曾、顾临、陈衡哲等人作为来宾演说，后先生答词，以中英文各讲一次。大意如下：
今日本馆举行落成典礼，承蒙诸君惠然来临，谨先代表本馆同人深致谢意，一切招待欠周，并请原谅！查本馆之落成，实各界联合努力之结果，故非常高兴。本馆藏书价值数百万元，以往均藏置普通建筑之房中，时有遭遇火险等恐慌。去年复出资六十余万元购置多卷图书，本馆负担益重，偶一不慎，损失不资。现图书等均已移置新馆之安全屋中，同人责任顿觉减轻若许，惟希望此后阅览人等能尽量利用为幸。本馆落成，教部及文化基金会为力实深，工程师设计师及监工人等，均极努力，不得不特致谢意，而平市府及工务局亦均极力帮忙。更须致谢者为朱桂莘先生，因本馆一切彩画，其图案均经过先生之审定者。此外尤应特别感谢梁任公家族，以任公所藏全部图书七万余卷，及任公信札等均存于本馆。而协和医学院亦有专门杂志捐赠，各外国图书馆贺电纷来，统此致谢云。
十时半全体摄影，礼毕，来宾至各处参观。〔《中华图书馆协会会报》第6卷第6期，页4-6〕
按：董霖（1907-1998），字为公，浙江萧山人，复旦大学毕业，时任国民党北平市党务整理委员兼书记长。
六月二十六日
傅增湘致函蔡元培、先生，赠平馆书四种。
孑民、守和先生阁下：
昨日新馆落成，获观盛典，私衷抃颂，莫可名言。兹检奉《正统道藏》本书籍四种送呈，聊表祝贺之忱。伏惟哂纳是幸。专此，敬候台祺。
傅增湘拜启
六月二十六日
〔《北京图书馆馆史资料汇编（1909-1949）》，页357〕
六月三十日
中午，钱玄同、黎锦熙、刘半农、魏建功、汪怡、白涤洲、孙楷第等十一人在前门廊坊头条撷英番菜馆设宴，蔡元培、李石曾、胡适、任鸿隽、翁文灏、蒋梦麟、周诒春、先生、徐森玉、赵万里受邀与席。〔《钱玄同日记（整理本）》，页809〕
《中国大辞典编纂处一览》，1931年，页55。
按：《钱玄同日记》中受邀者中有一位记作“赵”，应指赵元任。先生时任中国大辞典编纂处董事会董事。
《中华图书馆协会会报》刊登先生文章，题为《国立北平图书馆之使命》。〔《中华图书馆协会会报》第6卷6期，页3-4〕
六月
先生撰写《国立北平图书馆概况》。〔《图书馆学季刊》第5卷第2期，1931年6月，页300-315〕
按：该文分九部分，依次为沿革、组织、建筑、经费、藏书、赠书（附寄存书籍）、目录、编纂及出版、阅览，较为详尽地介绍了平馆情况。
七月二日
下午五时许，蔡元培乘平浦路快车离平返京，李石曾、吴铁城、王树翰、张学铭、曾广勷、周大文、蒋梦麟、胡适、董霖、陈石泉、周作民、先生等三百余人前往车站送行。某记者藉此采访，先生谓中国科学社拟于本年八月在沈阳举行年会，届时蔡元培如有暇必会前往参加。〔《华北日报》，1931年7月3日，第3版〕
《中央日报》，1931年5月1日，第2张第3版。
按：王树翰（1882-1955），字维宙，辽宁沈阳人，国民政府委员会文官长；张学铭（1908-1983），字西卿，辽宁海城人，时任天津市市长兼公安局长；曾广勷（1884—？），字治一，奉天铁岭人；周大文（1895-1971），字华章，江苏无锡人，时任北平市长；陈石泉，江苏人，金陵大学毕业，时任国民党北平市党务整理委员会常委
。
七月三日
先生致信芒太尔，请其协助联系斯文·赫定获取两整套瑞典文学术期刊。
July 3, 1931
Dr. A. Montell,
Peiping.
Dear Dr. Montell:
Referring the two Swedish Journals, “Geografiska Annaler” and “Ymer”, which Dr. Hedin kindly suggested to secure for the National Library of Peiping, I have looked up our files of periodicals and found we have none of them. We are very grateful to Dr. Hedin for his interest in this Library, and shall be very much obliged to you if you will kindly write him asking him to procure them for us and assuring him of our appreciation of his assistance in our behalf.
Besides current numbers, we are also desirous of securing the back files, because complete sets of these two important journals will be of much greater service to Chinese research students of geography and anthropology.
Please convey my best regards to Dr. Hedin and accept the same yourself.
Very sincerely yours,
T. L. Yuan
〔韩琦教授提供〕
按：Geografiska Annaler直译《地理学年鉴》、Ymer则为瑞典人类学和地理学研究院出版的学术期刊。今国家图书馆保存有相当数量的此两种学术期刊。
七月十二日
北平家庭会假法国使馆沙叶参赞宅举行茶会，行营秘书沈晞、先生、丁肇青等百余人到场。〔《华北日报》，1931年7月13日，第7版〕
七月中旬
先生致信王献唐。〔《王献唐年谱长编》，页192〕
按：该信于18日送达。
七月二十一日 济南
先生赴山东省立图书馆，时该馆“秦汉砖瓦展览会”“善本图书展览会”开幕，观众甚多，王献唐无暇接待。〔《王献唐年谱长编》，页194〕
七月下旬
先生赴青岛等地考察图书馆情况。〔《华北日报》，1931年8月3日，第6版〕
八月四日
加斯基尔致函先生，告知将寄赠康乃尔大学《永乐大典》的影照本并请代购数种辞典。
August 4, 1931
Dear Mr. Yuan,
Heartiest congratulations on the successful completion and opening of the new library, and best wishes for your work in it in the future. I appreciated very much the invitation to the formal opening and I am very sorry I could not be there. Friends have sent me clippings about it from both the Leader and one of the Chinese newspapers, which I have read with great interest. I only hope I can be there to work a while before too long.
We have at last got one of our volumes of the Yung Lo ta tien photostated and I am sending the photostat copy to you with this letter. It is packed in two rolls, both of which I trust will reach you promptly and in good condition. Whenever you can send us a copy of one of your volumes in exchange, we shall be glad to have it.
I wonder if you know about the volume of the Yung Lo ta tien of which I learned in March, which is not in your list of extant volumes. It is in the possession（or was in March）of Mrs. John Inglis, in Denver, Colorado, who wrote to ask how much we would offer for it. It is Ch. 8091-8093. We offered Mrs. Inglis two hundred dollars for it, which seems a fair price, but I have heard nothing further from her. I hope some library gets the volume, so it will be carefully preserved and made available for scholars' use.
Has Dr. T. F. Tsiang's source book for the history of Chinese foreign relations been published yet? I should be very glad to have a copy if it has. And is Chung Kuo Jen ming ta tz'u tien available yet? We should like, too, a copy of Chung kuo ti ming ta tz'u tien and all the volumes that have been published of □□□□□□□□. If you can send us any of all of these, we shall appreciate it very much.
I do not know just when we shall feel able to have more of the volumes of the Yung Lo ta tien photostated. It is rather expensive and a drain on our limited funds, but we very much want to let you have them as soon as we can.
With greetings and best wishes,
Cordially yours
〔Cornell University Library, Wason Collection Records, 1918-1988, Box 1, Folder Koo, T. K. Letters〕
按：one of our volumes of the Yung Lo ta tien即该馆所藏《永乐大典》士字册（卷13453）。此件为底稿，斜体部分应为加斯基尔铅笔所写，最后一处无法辨识，特此说明。
八月五日
先生致信斯文·赫定，告自己未获知兄长袁复礼的近况，并谈斯坦因被驱除、居延汉简已开始着手研究等事。
Aug. 5th 1931
Dear Dr. Hedin:
I have just returned from a trip to Tsingtao and find your letter of July 6 waiting for me. My brother must be somewhere on the outskirt of the desert on his way home, but strange to say that I have heard nothing from him so far. He has been very fortunate in having the opportunity to work under you, and you have further done him great honor by your generous praise of his work in all your writings. I have just seen a review of your recent book “Rätsel der Gobi” in the Times Literary Supplement, in which the reviewer repeats what you said about Philip's work. You cannot know how grateful we are for your kind words.
We know very little here about Sir Aurel Stein except from Governor Chin's vague telegrams. It appears Stein travelled in Sinkiang many months, but if the Governor can be trusted, no excavations were done. He maintained that Stein asked to be permitted to do archeological investigations, but that this was refused him and that Stein left the territory without any antiquities with him.
A lot of preliminary sorting and photography have to be done in the bamboo MSS. before any study can be undertaken. We are truly too glad to be of any service possible. I think you have heard from Prof. Liu that the China Foundation has granted the Chinese Committee some money to carry on its research on the material, though much less than what was asked for.
I have secured for you one photograph of a Chinese court lady decorating her head with pearl pendants after the morning toilet. I am sending it to Dr. Montell, as also a booklet about our new building. I hope to secure some more photographs for you soon. About publication for our library, will you kindly mention our special interest in the natural and exact sciences? We are greatly indebted to you for your constant interest in the National Library and cannot thank you enough in writing.
With best wishes.
Yours sincerely,
T. L. Yuan
〔国立北平图书馆英文信纸。韩琦教授提供〕
按：Rätsel der Gobi一般译作《戈壁沙漠之谜》，1931年德国莱比锡初版。bamboo MSS即居延汉简。此件为打字稿，落款处为先生签名。
八月七日
先生致信加斯基尔，告知《张文襄公全集》即将出版，推荐康乃尔大学购入。
Aug. 7, 1931
Dear Miss Gaskill:
I learned that a very important book, the COMPLETE WORKS OF CHANG CHIH-TUNG, may be had. The late Viceroy Chang is well-known for his many reforms and the important part he played during the Boxer trouble, besides being known as a Chinese scholar. Hitherto, only parts of his works have been available, but the present edition is definitive. It is in 120 volumes, printed from wood blocks, in the standard quarto size.
I must explain that the books are not yet on the market here. I understand a small edition was published in Harbin and immediately exhausted, but the blocks are here now. Owing to the importance of the work for the study of modern Chinese history, I have asked the owner to print five copies for us, one of which being for the Cornell University. The book will be ready soon. The price will be $100 silver, which includes 20 cloth-board cases. I will send the book to you as soon as possible. The cost including postage will work out at less than G $30, which is possible only because of the exchange rate.
Yours sincerely,
T. L. Yuan
Acting Director
I have sent for you a copy each of the
（1）中国人名大辞典
（2）中国地名大辞典
（3）……published by Commercial Press
〔国立北平图书馆英文信纸。Cornell University Library, Wason Collection Records, 1918-1988, Box 1, Folder Koo, T. K. Letters〕
按：COMPLETE WORKS OF CHANG CHIH-TUNG即《张文襄公全集》，Viceroy Chang即张之洞。此件为打字稿，落款及补语皆为先生亲笔。
八月十一日
北平市政设计委员会致函朱庆澜、蔡元培、易培基、江瀚、庄蕴宽、沈尹默、陈垣、吴鼎昌、先生等人，请自选担任何组委员。大意如下：
径启者，本会于八月一日开第一次常务会议，前经函达查照，计是日到会委员共二十四人，议决案件四起，并议决，审查委员分为建设、文化、庶政三组，由各委员自行认定担任一组或二组在案。查是日台端未经到会列席，相应照抄议事录，并开列各组委员名单各一份，送请查照，并希认定担任某组事项，迅予见复为荷。此致。
〔《华北日报》，1931年8月12日，第6版〕
按：朱庆澜（1874-1941），字子桥，原籍绍兴，生于山东济南，近代政治家，时应任国民政府监察院委员。吴鼎昌（1884-1950），字达诠，成都华阳人，民国初期金融界人士、企业家，后历任南京国民政府实业部部长、贵州省政府主席等职。先生应选择担任文化组委员。
八月十七日
罗隆基致函先生，询问《现代图书》书稿撰写进展。
同礼先生：
前托适之先生特上一函，特请先生编撰现代图书一书，不知已尘记室否？但久未蒙赐复，殊念。先生研究图书馆学，最有心得，故编撰该书非先生莫属，万望先生慨予俯允，于最近期内编就寄来，无任感盼！专此，顺候著安！
罗隆基
八月十七
〔上海新月书店用笺。国家图书馆档案，档案编号1945-※057-综合5-014001〕
《申报》，1931年9月9日，第1版。
按：《现代文化丛书》由胡适、罗隆基、徐志摩、潘光旦、丁西林编辑，其“社会研究”书系有一册题为《现代图书》，本拟由先生撰写。
该函右侧有先生笔记“一俟得暇当即寄呈”。
八月二十一日
下午五时，中华农学会第十四届年会会员齐赴平馆，先生设茶话会招待，七时许毕。〔《申报》，1931年8月27日，第11版〕
按：此次年会于8月20日上午9时在北平大学法学院开幕，到会嘉宾有张学良、吴涤愆、李石曾（潘恩垣代）、朱庆润（商云汀代）、周维廉（事业部）、周大文（北平市长）、沈尹默（北平大学校长）、白经天（法学院院长）等人。
先生致信斯文·赫定，感谢其为平馆谋取瑞典学术期刊，并告平馆馆藏文献特色，另表示《甘珠尔》《丹珠尔》两种藏文《大藏经》很难买到，中法科学考察团出发，居延汉简正在初步整理等情况。
Aug. 21, 1931
Dear Dr. Hedin:
I have just received your kind letter of August 3. I am really much obliged by what you say regarding the little assistance that I have sometimes been able to render to your associates here. It is but no more than my duty toward my honored guests. I only regret that I am unable to be of greater service.
Thank you very much for your efforts to supply us with two well-known geographical journals of Sweden. I quite realize the difficulty in securing the back-numbers, so please use your discretion whether the matter should be mentioned. The National Library is always glad to receive publications of learned societies, particularly in the physical, natural and historical sciences. I sent you a little pamphlet about our library when I last wrote you, which I hope you have received. It gives a little history and some description of the new building. I am now sending you some additional photographs. As to our collections, our Chinese books and MSS. The Imperial Library of Emperor Ch'ien Lung, in 36,300 MS. volumes bound in silk, and over 8000 MSS. from Tun Huang are among the notable collections. Of foreign books, we have about 50,000 volumes, but these include nearly 200 complete sets of foreign learned journals, and many important reference books. We have two important libraries deposited with us, namely, that of Liang Ch'i-Ch'ao and the Möllendorff Library（mainly foreign books on philology）. We are now preparing a pamphlet in English giving more complete information, which will later be distributed among the learned institutions of the world.
Regarding your desire to secure two copies of the Kanjur and the Tanjur for the Lama temples in Stockholm and Chicago, I am afraid you may meet some disappointment. Complete copies are now very rare, our own copy of the Tanjur being a little imperfect. The copy of Kanjur deposited with us by the Commercial Press was purchased by it with great difficulty.
The Citroën expedition appears to have been wound up at Tihua. We get very little news from Sinkiang, but as the French have been sending out wireless reports to Paris, you may know more about the matter. We have not heard anything about the party travelling from the West, but it is certain that the expedition will not be allowed by our government to travel overland to Burma, after all that the French have done.
Professors Ma Heng and Liu Fu have already started their preliminary work on the MS. on wood. The library has set aside a large room for their use. The cleaning and copying of the texts will take a long time, after which there will be the photography to do.
I still have not heard anything from my brother. From what you say, he ought to be back soon. The war in North China was promptly suppressed, and there is every likelihood of peace in this part of the country. But unprecedented floods are doing great damage in Central China. My country is really most unfortunate, for where we don't have man-made calamities, we have natural ones. The government is floating a loan of $10,000,000, for emergency relief, and we hope the plans will be carried out efficiently.
With every good wish and hoping to welcome you back in Peiping soon.
Yours sincerely,
T. L. Yuan
〔国立北平图书馆英文信纸。韩琦教授提供〕
按：Citroën expedition即中法科学考察团（Sino-French Scientific Expedition），也称The Yellow Expedition，由雪铁龙公司、美国国家地理资助，但并未取得相当的学术成就，因中方团员被殴导致考察草草结束。此件为打字稿，落款处为先生签名。
八月三十一日
先生致信斯文·赫定，告本日寄出乾隆宝座的新照片。
Aug. 31, 1931
Dear Dr. Hedin:
I sent to Dr. Montell early in August some photographs from the Palace Museum which you desired to have for reprinting in your book. I trust they have arrived in good condition.
I am sending you to-day an additional photograph of the Imperial throne of Emperor Chien-Lung and you may discard the older one sent through Dr. Montell.
With cordial regards,
Sincerely yours,
T. L. Yuan
〔国立北平图书馆英文信纸。韩琦教授提供〕
按：此件为打字稿，落款处为先生签名。
八月
The China Journal刊登先生文章，题为“The National Library of Peiping”。〔The China Journal, vol. 15, no. 2, 1931, pp. 111-114〕
按：该文介绍平馆的源流、合组、新馆舍、阅览室分布、现代化设施、使命，失收于《袁同礼文集》。
九月一日
先生致信徐家汇光启社，请该社寄赠刊物或告知订购价格。
Sept 1, 1931
Bureau Sinologiques de Zi-Ka-Wei
Catholic Mission,
Zi Ka Wei
Shanghai
Dear Sirs:
Our attention has recently been called to the RENSEIGNEMENTS published by you. It has been suggested that both our foreign and Chinese readers will find it to be of interest. Permit me therefore to inquire whether it will be possible for you to place the National Library on your mailing list to receive a complimentary copy of the RENSEIGNEMENTS. I assure you that your courtesy will be greatly appreciated.
In case you should find it impossible to accede to our request. Please send us a sample copy together with information about cost of subscription etc.
Thanking you, I am,
Yours truly,
T. L. Yuan
Acting Director
〔国立北平图书馆英文信纸。孔夫子旧书网（https://book.kongfz.com/10911/5002470348/）〕
按：RENSEIGNEMENTS所指，待考。此件为打字稿，落款处为先生签名。
九月二日
先生致信蒲特南，感谢其寄来平馆新馆开幕的贺词，并回赠开幕仪式册页。
Sept. 2, 1931
Dr. Herbert Putnam:
On behalf of the Board of Managers of the National Library of Peiping, I beg to thank you most sincerely for sending us your greetings on the occasion of our Formal Opening, which the Board keenly appreciates.
I have sent you a leaflet prepared for the occasion, which please accept with our compliments. A copy of our annual report for the past year will be sent to you upon its publication in October.
With renewed thanks,
Sincerely yours,
T. L. Yuan
Acting Director
〔国立北平图书馆英文信纸。Librarian of Congress, Putnam Archives, Special File, China: National Library 1930-1939〕
按：此件为打字稿，落款处为先生签名，9月28日送达国会图书馆秘书办公室。
九月四日
顾颉刚致函先生。〔《顾颉刚日记》卷2，页59〕
九月十一日
先生致信葛斯德华文藏书库负责人，感谢其祝贺平馆新馆落成并告知即将回赠平馆馆务年度报告。
Sept. 11, 1931
Dr. Robert de Resillac-Roese, Curator,
Gest Chinese Research Library,
McGill University,
Montreal,
Canada.
Dear Sir:
On behalf of the Board of Managers of the National Library of Peiping, I beg to thank you most sincerely for sending us your greetings on the occasion of our Formal Opening which the Board keenly appreciates.
We shall soon publish a “Sketch” of our Library, and a copy will be sent to you together with our Annual Report for 1930-31.
With renewed thanks.
Sincerely yours,
T. L. Yuan
Acting Director
〔国立北平图书馆英文信纸。Princeton University, Mudd Manuscript Library, AC123, Box 410, Folder National Library of Peiping〕
按：因本年6月4日，葛斯德华文藏书库致信平馆委员会祝贺新馆落成。此件为打字稿，落款处为先生签名。
九月十八日
先生致信加斯基尔，表示已经收到其寄赠的《永乐大典》影照本，并告知Inglis夫人向平馆捐赠一册《永乐大典》用以庆祝新馆落成，此外就购买图书的进展略作介绍。
Sept. 18, 1931
Dear Gaskill,
Thank you very much for your kind words about our formal opening. We had an awkward situation on June 25, for we had more than twice the number of guests we had expected. Although the number created many difficulties for us, making it impossible to give them the necessary attention, yet we felt gratified that so many persons took an interest in the library.
The photostat of the YUNG LO TA TIEN has just been received-C13453. It is splendid, and I appreciate the cost you had to bear. I shall be glad to send you a volume on exchange, but I do not know whether you prefer MSS. Facsimiles or photostat. Our machine is a small one, and if we take the TA TIEN in original size, there will not be any upper and lower margin. Moreover, the photostat would be negative only. Please let me know which kind you want, and also the particular volume that you may prefer to receive.
After consultation with those interested in photostats of YUNG LO TA TIEN, it has been suggested that if the Cornell Library has a small machine taking wide pictures, a reduced size like the sample enclosed will do. This will reduce the cost very materially and would be equally serviceable for our purpose.
About the volume of YUNG LO TA TIEN you mentioned, I hope to receive it as a gift in a short time. At first, we hoped to secure a photostat copy only, but with the valued help of a missionary lady here, Mrs. Inglis finally decided to present it to the National Library. From what she wrote, the volume appears to have been saved from the Han Lin Academy by her husband during the Boxer uprising.
I have bought for you two dictionaries of Chinese geography, one published by the National Academy of Peiping, the other by the Commercial Press. They supplement each other. The biographical dictionary is not yet available, while no complete set of the CHANG KU TS'UNG P'IEN can be had. No. 3 is out of print. Do you want an incomplete set?
Prof. Tsiang's source book for the history of Chinese foreign relations will be revised and published by the Commercial Press, and I shall see to it that you get a copy when published.
I hope to send you the WORKS of Chang Chih-Tung in a few days. If you don't want it for Cornell, please pass it on to the Chinese Library of Harvard. Mr. Alfred Chiu saw the book when he left for America and asked me to let him have it, but as I had reserved it for you, I had to refuse him.
With best wishes,
Yours sincerely,
T. L. Yuan
Acting Director
〔Cornell University Library, Wason Collection Records, 1918-1988, Box 1, Folder Koo, T. K. Letters〕
按：Inglis夫人捐赠给平馆《永乐大典》为卷8091-8093城字册。信中两种地名大辞典分别为，刘钧仁著《中国地名大辞典》，1930年8月北平研究院出版，定价大洋十五元整；臧励龢等编《中国古今地名大辞典》，1931年5月商务印书馆初版。Prof. Tsiang即蒋廷黻，信中所言的著作即《近代中国外交史资料辑要》（上卷），1931年11月商务印书馆初版。
九月中下旬
先生向北平市筹办战地急赈及慰劳前敌将士事务处捐款十元，并代向平馆馆员等募集捐款。〔《华北日报》，1931年9月21日，第9版〕
九月二十一日
平馆建筑委员会召开会议。〔《国立北平图书馆馆刊》第5卷第5号，页132〕
下午五时，平津学术团体对日联合会第一次常务委员会会议假北平大学校长办公处召开。蒋梦麟（北京大学）、沈尹默（北平大学）、徐旭生（北平师范大学）、先生（平馆）、李麟玉（北平研究院）、叶企孙（清华大学）、吴雷川（燕京大学）、余同甲（中国学院）等人出席。蒋梦麟为会议主席，陈中原、褚保权为记录。北京大学、北平大学、清华大学、燕京大学等各自提交报告，其中北京大学报告中，推定担任宣传事宜的起稿人员，分别为胡适、白经天、李麟玉、傅斯年、丁文江、周炳琳、徐旭生、先生。该会讨论并通过六项议案。〔《北京大学史料》第2卷第3册，页2780〕
按：该组织于20日在北平大学成立，先生未出席成立大会，由傅斯年（中央研究院）代。白经天（1889-1948），原名白鹏飞，字经天，后以字行，广西桂林人，早年赴日留学，获东京帝国大学法学士，归国后历任广东省立工业专门学校教务主任、国立北京法政大学总务长、中俄大学教务长等，后曾任广西大学校长。
九月二十五日
先生致信斯文·赫定，谈九一八事变，并告兄长袁复礼、汉简整理的近况。
Sept. 25, 1931
Dear Dr. Hedin:
Many thanks for your kind letter of August 25, and your gift of a copy of your book, which will be most welcome to the library. I expect to receive it from Brockhaus soon, though the situation in Manchuria may cause the delay.
The Japanese this time certainly went too far, even farther than their own Foreign Office approved. The situation is full of danger, and I do not see what would be the end of the complications that are daily arising. The unprovoked attack was entirely unexpected, and the government is following a careful policy. Even though Japan has a very good propaganda machine in the West, the facts are such that I believe the world will not be fooled.
I have seen Osborn's article in Science. He must have felt very bitter to write in such a way as he did. It is for the Commission to reply, but I cannot help observing that his mention of your expedition, Stein, and Haardt is unfortunate. We are grateful for the statement you have caused to be printed. As for Stein, he assured Nanking he was not going to excavate, but the first thing he did in Sinkiang was to ask permission to do archaeological work, and consequently he was asked to leave. The Citröen expedition, you know, has very little scholarly objective, for even Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was invited by China to go on the Expedition, as for Dr. Andrews, he has only himself to blame. He repeatedly ridiculed the Chinese and arrogated to himself the sole right to explore Mongolia. Dr. Andrews was said to be a very amiable person, and it must be that he had a special set of manners reserved for Chinese, for his attitude toward the Chinese was so over-bearing that no one wanted to have anything to do with him. Of course, Dr. Osborn knows nothing about this side of Dr. Andrews, and lays the whole blame on China, that we want to stop all scientific work by foreigners in our country, etc.
We have finally heard from my brother, he changed his plans a little, and will come back by camel, arriving Peking in December. The fossils were entrusted to a foreigner for dispatch to Pao Tou. The Committee is sending a man to meet the consignment.
Prof. Fu Liu, I understand, has written to you and Dr. Karlgren, so you will have known that the China Foundation made a grant to the Committee. He and Prof. Ma come to the Library three times a week to work on Dr. Bergman's wood strips.
I am sending you two more set of pictures of the Library. I hope you will find the photographs of the exterior usable, but those of the interior are not as clear as I wish. Still, a few of them may be good enough for your purpose.
With best regards.
Yours sincerely,
T. L. Yuan
Acting Director
〔韩琦教授提供〕
按：Bergman即Folke Bergman（1902-1946），瑞典考古学家，曾参加西北科学考查团，主持发掘居延汉简、小河墓地。此件为打字稿，落款处为先生签名。
B. A. Claytor致函先生，告其已将先生所需的期刊、年报送交史密斯森协会寄送平馆，但有数种无法获取，或可由平馆直接联系出版商。
September 25, 1931
Dear Mr. Yuan:
Your recent communications have been received. During the absence of Mr. Hummel, who is now in Europe, I have the honor of thanking you for bringing available works of importance to the attention of the Library of Congress.
I am sorry that the Library of Congress did not secure seven of the items on your list. Two of them are already in L. C. so it is, as you have observed, better for the interests of the seller to let them go, en bloc, to Harvard.
In complying with your request, I have secured from the American Council of Learned Societies Bulletins No. 10-11, as well as Bulletin No. 1, “Progress of Chinese Studies in the United States of America.” These with the Annual Reports of the Librarian of Congress have been sent under separate cover. I quote a portion of Mr. Blanchard's memorandum concerning the latter:
“The volumes of our Annual Reports requested by Mr. Yuan---were sent by international exchange on September 21, 1931. There is of course no charge for these volumes as we are happy to be of any service to Mr. Yuan. Since the volumes are going by international exchange, it will take several weeks for them to reach Peiping.……”
I thought that I would see you in America this past summer. Word came to me that you were coming. I shall look forward to renewing our acquaintance in the near future.
Trusting that you are enjoying the best of health, I am
Yours very truly,
Acting-in Charge
Division of Chinese Literature
〔Library of Congress Archives, Arthur W. Hummel Sr. correspondence series, MSS86324〕
按：American Council of Learned Societies Bulletins No. 10-11其中有关于美国中国学的数篇文章，如Mortimer Graves “The Promotion of Chinese Studies”、Berthold Laufer “Suggestion for the Foundation of a Chinese Research Institute in Washington”和“Proceedings of the First Conference on the Promotion of Chinese Studies”，此应为先生意欲了解的美国学术动态，故请寄送。该件为录副，无落款。
九月二十七日
上午十时，故宫博物院图书馆在寿安宫阅览室举行第九次专门委员会会议，江瀚、朱师辙、卢弼、赵万里、先生、余嘉锡、张允亮、俞同奎、李宗侗出席，江瀚为会议主席。先生报告事项：
（一）现影印《天禄琳琅丛书》内原有《孟子注疏》一种，其书与《周礼疏》虽同为黄唐刻本，但审查书籍内容似无多大价值，拟换印宋本《尔雅》、元本赵注《孟子》及《宣和画谱》三种；后拟以《宣和画谱》印入小丛书内暂不列入。议决，改印《尔雅》、赵注《孟子》、《毛钞算经》。
（二）院内处分物品略有余款，拟提出二万元作印书费，如各库内见有可印之书请各委员挑出以备选印，并请大家分任工作到各书库将书找好再作提要。议决，先编印丛书目录然后印书。
此外，先生表示商务印书馆借印本院《明史本纪》系按版权分利，尚无不可。约十二时散会。〔故宫博物院档案〕
九月
《文华图书科季刊》（韦棣华女士纪念号）刊登先生为韦棣华女士撰写的挽联“馆阁集琳琅卅载辛勤堪不朽，声名溢中外一朝风烛倍伤神。”〔《文华图书科季刊》第3卷第3期，1931年9月，页376；《文华图书科季刊》第3卷第4期，1931年12月，页579-581〕
按：除撰写挽联外，先生本人为韦氏中国美术博物馆捐款30元，并在北平、河北省募集公私捐款1000余元。
十月八日
晚，徐志摩、先生、温源宁在平馆设宴款待法国人Laloy和Elie Faure，并邀Reclus、小叶夫妇、梁思成、玉海、温源宁夫人、孙大雨、周铭洗、蒯叔平、陈箓、梅兰芳、程砚秋等人作陪。〔《徐志摩全集：戏剧·书信集》，上海：上海书店，1994年，“书信集”页123〕
《徐志摩全集：戏剧·书信集》，“书信集”页153-154。
按：Reclus即Jacques Reclus（1894-1984），中文名邵可侣，1928年来华，长期在中法大学执教，从事翻译中国古典文献，如《浮生六记》。除邵可侣外，另有一法人记作Monastière，笔者认为其拼写似有误，或为Alphonse Monestier。孙大雨（1905-1997），原名孙铭传，字守拙，生于上海，“新月派”诗人、翻译家。周铭洗（1904-1996），女，其父为清末诗人周大烈，1928年毕业于北京师范大学，后赴美留学，时应在北京大学任教。蒯叔平，女，曾任上海培成女校校长，后任北京大学教授。另，徐志摩与先生关系应颇为融洽，可参见徐志摩致蒋复璁的数封信函。
十月九日
下午一时半，平馆委员会召开第二次会议，傅斯年、任鸿隽、孙洪芬、刘半农、马衡、周诒春、先生出席，推任鸿隽为临时主席。讨论议案如下：
（一）关于旧养蜂夹道迤西空地，议决自图书馆发电厂及暖室院之南墙以南之地均借给中基会。
（二）关于购书委员会之组织，议决分中、西文两组，每组设书记一人，中文组委员推定陈垣、胡适、顾颉刚、陈寅恪、傅斯年、徐森玉、赵万里（兼书记）；西文组委员推定丁文江、胡先骕、陈寅恪、傅斯年、孙洪芬、王守竞、顾子刚（兼书记）。
（三）建筑委员会周诒春报告建筑委员会不日结束，惟自迁移新馆以来各种设备之增加及零细工程之改善，前请之款尚不敷用，拟请中基会追加五万七千元，议决通过。
（四）傅斯年提议、刘半农附议，文津新馆舍为中国重要建设事业，馆委员会应对建筑委员会数年来工作表示感谢，议决通过。
（五）周诒春、傅斯年两委员任满，议决连任三年。
（六）本年度馆委员会职员，推定周诒春为委员长，刘半农为副委员长，先生为书记，孙洪芬仍为会计，任期一年。
三时散会。〔《北京图书馆馆史资料汇编（1909-1949）》，页334-335〕
十月十一日
中午十二时十分，国联教育考察团一行五人抵达北平，李蒸（教育部社会教育司司长）、徐旭生（师大校长）、萧瑜（天然博物院院长）、先生以及北平研究院全体职员数十人前往车站迎接。下午三时，该团及李蒸等乘汽车先赴景山，后至故宫博物院，该院在御花园绛雪轩预备茶点，由李宗侗、先生、徐旭生等人招待，太平洋国际学会各国在平代表亦受邀作陪。〔《华北日报》，1931年10月12日，第6版〕
按：该团成员有柏林大学教授伯克尔、波兰教育部长华尔斯基、法兰西学院教授蓝格文、伦敦大学教授唐奈。
十月十二日
国联教育考察团赴平馆参观，先生负责接待。〔《国民日报》（上海），1931年10月13日，第4版〕
十月十三日
程砚秋致函先生，赠书及册页数种与平馆。
守和先生大鉴：
昨荷光临，畅聆教益，至为佩慰。拙编各剧说明书均载《霜杰集》中，兹检呈一部，又附上各剧小册，统乞惠存。至英文说明书只有两种，容检出续奉。耑肃，敬颂道绥。
程砚秋敬启
十月十三
〔国家图书馆档案，档案编号1945-※057-综合5-019001〕
按：《霜杰集》，金兆棪辑，1926年商务印书馆代印初版。《国立北平图书馆馆务报告》（民国二十年七月至二十一年六月）“赠书人名录”记有程艳秋赠《霜杰集》。
十月十五日
恒慕义致函先生，告国会图书馆将订购《张文襄公全集》，前请影照该馆所藏《永乐大典》一事会尽快做出明确答复。
October 15, 1931
Dear Mr. Yuan:
My absence in Europe made it impossible for me to reply earlier to your letter of August 11 and 25. Mr. Claytor has already answered most of the queries which you sent, and has forwarded to you the annual reports both of the Library of Congress and of the committee for the Promotion of Chinese Studies.
I am sorry we were unable to obtain the nine rare Chinese works which you at first had in mind for us. However, we are glad for the complete works of Chang Chih-tung which you indicate that you are sending and which I am now recommending that we purchase.
You may rest assured that there is never any difficulty about the purchase of such rare works as you ordinarily recommend. If the sums are not too large, it is unlikely that the Librarian will refuse to purchase such items as you may recommend, since he has absolutely confidence in your judgment and in your sincerity and goodwill.
I am now taking up again the question of reproducing for your Library the volumes of the YUNG LO TA TIEN which are here preserved, and I hope that we can come to a definite decision in this matter. This matter has been in my mind for a long time and I am anxious to see it brought to a successful conclusion as early as possible.
Many thanks for your kindness, I remain,
Sincerely yours,
Arthur W. Hummel,
Chief, Division of Chinese Literature
〔Library of Congress Archives, Arthur W. Hummel Sr. correspondence series, MSS86324〕
按：该件为录副。
十月中旬
郑寿麟访先生，商洽筹设德国研究会事宜，愿将其所藏有关图书交予平馆庋藏以供阅览。
十月二十日
郑寿麟致函先生，愿将德国图书数百种、各方面所捐赠之新书捐赠平馆，以利开展德国研究。
敬启者：
我中国自明清以降，与欧美诸国关系日深且繁，无论思想、教育、工商各界在在受其影响，但欲明晓种种外来影响之有益或害，欲洞悉外国对我之举措，我国对外之应付，则对于外国一切情形，非具确当之认识不可。窃考东西洋各国早设专门学院以研究中国为务，故中国有所设施皆难逃外人之耳目。回观我国近年虽有南洋研究社、日本研究社、俄罗斯研究社等先后继起，然对于欧美列强尚多阙如。寿麟昔驻德七载，亦曾历游法兰西、瑞士、俄罗斯等国，目睹欧洲各国收罗中国图书、古物以及每年研究出版品之丰富，实足惊异感叹。归国以后，于教授之余辄致力考究，筹思关于德国方面创设一德国研究会，将来倘略有成绩，便可充国人建立各外国研究会之参考。曾与前任德国驻华公使Dr. H. v. Borch卜尔熙博士、驻重庆领事Dr. H. Iraul陶汉斯博士、驻汉口副领事Dr. C. H. Voskamp等商议，皆表示热诚赞助，德国学术机关且已有书籍捐助，于是胆气稍壮，毅然辞去成都大学教授职务，迁徙北平。盖以故都始终为我国文化重心，对于学术贡献最是适宜之地也。惟值此我国内忧外患之秋，中德两方经济俱极危急之际，欲筹足基金独办一德国研究所，明知困难万分，计虑再四，终未敢向此途进行。又知国内现有图书馆其各方面堪称美备者，厥惟贵馆。今方草创之德国研究会，冀其发展于将来，贵馆定能有力扶助。故愿举寿麟个人私有德国图书数百种，以及各方面所捐赠之新书悉归贵馆支配，非敢谓步梁任公先生遗族之后尘，惟各量力以附骥尾而助文化事业已耳。德国研究会原非寿麟个人之私产，亦非个人所能成功。今后惟望贵馆视该会为我中国之一学术机关，视为贵馆之一枝叶，尽力培植扶导，使不衰堕而臻昌完善，则非特提倡者之幸，抑亦中德多数人士之所同庆者欤。上述大意曾与贵馆长面商，幸蒙惠允赞助，今特缮就此函，藉作根据而示郑重，尚祈察核赐覆为祷。此上
国立北平图书馆馆长袁
郑寿麟
二十年十月二十日
按：落款处钤“郑寿麟章”印。先生接到此函后，平馆曾覆一函，内容如下，
径启者：接奉一号公函，内开创设德国研究会，拟即附设于敝馆内，希尽力扶助等因，并将原有德文图书一百叁十五本附送来馆，热心文化，至堪钦佩。重以尊嘱自当尽力赞助，用期昌盛。除将原书编目庋藏藉备研究外，相应函复，即希察照。此致
郑寿麟先生
〔《北京图书馆馆史资料汇编（1909-1949）》，页358-363〕
十月二十二日
蒲特南覆函先生，告国会图书馆尚未收到平馆的新舍开幕宣传册页、年度报告。
October 22, 1931
Dear Dr. Yuan:
We have held our acknowledgment of your letter of September 2 to await the arrival of the leaflet prepared on the occasion of the formal opening of your National Library which you stated that you were sending. Up to the present time it has not reached us.
When it is received, I shall be interested to examine it, also the copy of your Annual report which you expect to forward to us when it is ready for distribution.
With appreciation of your interest,
Very sincerely yours,
Librarian
〔Librarian of Congress, Putnam Archives, Special File, China: National Library 1930-1939〕
按：此件为录副。
十月二十四日
国会图书馆覆函先生，此前先生致Charles Martel的信件已经收到，所提及的分类法各部尚在编印之中，暂时无法寄送平馆。
October 24, 1931
Dear Sir:
Mr. Charles Martel, who is no longer Chief of our Catalogue Division, but now our Consultant in Catalogue, Classification, and Bibliography, has recently referred to this Office your letter of September 15, addressed to him.
Regarding the Classification schedules mentioned by you, the Assistant in Charge of our Publications advises that class PB-PH is now in press, but it will not be printed by the end of the year, as you supposed. The schedules for Classes CN, K, and PQ and PT are not completed and we are unable to say when any of them will be available. However, are noting the name of your Library on our mailing list to receive copies of these schemes whenever they are issued.
Regretting our inability to be of more direct service at this time.
Very truly yours,
Acting Secretary
〔Librarian of Congress, Putnam Archives, Special File, China: National Library 1930-1939〕
按：PB-PH指凯尔特语、意大利语、德语、北欧日耳曼语、英语、斯拉夫语、乌拉尔语、巴斯克语、阿尔巴尼亚语等语言。CN, K, and PQ and PT分别为碑刻和金石、法律，法语、意大利语、西班牙语和葡萄牙语文学，德语文学。此件为录副。
十月二十六日
先生致信斯文·赫定，表示愿意协调各方，如约使西北科学考查团所获的新石器时代古物能够部分运往瑞典以利研究。
October 26, 1931
Dear Dr. Hedin:
I have just received your letter of the 8th. As Dr. Montell is leaving this afternoon, I will write you a hurried note.
As you say, Sweden has borne by far the largest part of the expenses, and if you have nothing to show at home, it will be very embarrassing for you. I am not in a position to guarantee that you will be given all of Dr. Bergman's Neolithic finds, but at least I can assure you that every bit of influence that I have will be used on your behalf. Perhaps it will be impossible to give Sweden all the finds, but I am sure that some arrangements can be made that will satisfy both your desire and the government's regulations. The only requirement is some dialectical skill, for which we Chinese are not inferior! So far, the best of relations exists, and so I am rather sanguine.
As to the study of the finds, I understand that some Chinese has to be associated with our Swedish colleagues, and the reports published in China. Whether the association be only nominal or someone will actually be detailed, I do not know. This however is a point that can be easily adjusted.
Thank you very much for the publicity you have given us. I am sure with your distinguished name to back up the appeal for publications, it will be productive of much results. The National Library is greatly indebted to foreign institutions for valuable gifts, among which the Swedish Academy of Sciences is prominent. I hope that the utilization of these publications in the National Library will help advance the sciences.
With best regards.
Yours sincerely,
T. L. Yuan
I am asking Dr. Montell to bring 10 copies of our booklet for your use.
〔韩琦教授提供〕
按：此件为打字稿，落款和补语皆为先生亲笔。
十月二十八日
平馆建筑委员会召开会议。〔《国立北平图书馆馆刊》第5卷第5号，页132〕
按：因新馆舍已建成并投入使用，此次会议似为结束该会事宜。
十月三十一日
下午五时，万国美术社主办的周廷旭油画赈灾展览会行将闭幕，特举行抽签仪式，于凤至、黄惠兰、王锡炽夫妇、福开森、周诒春、先生等二百余人到场。〔《华北日报》，1931年11月1日，第6版〕
十一月五日
先生致信Robert P. Blake，告知已收到哈佛学院图书馆的汇款，并愿意竭尽所能协助该馆。
Nov. 5, 1931
Dr. Robert P. Blake, Director
Harvard College Library,
Cambridge, Mass.,
Dear Dr. Blake:
I have received your remittance of $1,012.70 in full payment of the rare Chinese books bought by Mr. Chiu when he was here. Official receipt is enclosed.
It is a pleasure to me to be of any service to the cause of Chinese Studies in your country. We in China watch with the greatest interest the recent movement under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies. If there is anything that I can do for your library, I shall only be too glad to be of service.
Yours Sincerely,
T. L. Yuan
Acting Director
〔国立北平图书馆英文信纸。Harvard-Yenching Library Archives〕
按：Robert P. Blake（1886-1950），美国著名的拜占庭学专家，对中世纪格鲁吉亚文稿有精深的研究，1928年至1937年任哈佛大学图书馆馆长。此件为打字稿，落款处为先生签名。
十一月六日
恒慕义致函先生，告知国会图书馆已收到《张文襄公全集》并已安排付款，对平馆新貌和管理极为赞许。
November 6, 1931
Dear Mr. Yuan:
We have received the 120 volumes of the collected writings of Chang Chih-tung, and the payment for the same is now being arranged by the Disbursing Office. If you come across of any other works of this nature which you think we should have, we shall be glad to have it, or send you a cable if you indicate the type of the work and the cost. I hear on every hand expression of great admiration for the new Library and for your excellent management of it. Congratulations to you! With best wishes, I remain,
Sincerely yours,
Arthur W. Hummel,
Chief of the Division of Chinese Literature
〔Library of Congress Archives, Arthur W. Hummel Sr. correspondence series, MSS86324〕
按：该件为录副。
十一月十四日
朱家骅致函先生，请推荐物色合适人选担任中央大学图书馆馆长。
守和吾兄惠鉴：
径启者，前在平畅谭，至快。敝校图书馆急待整理，俟有经费，更拟扩充。曩承介绍某君充图书馆长，至荷雅意。兹已数月，未知此君已否回国？倘能更有其他学识、经验丰富之人才，仍希即行代为物色，拜恳。耑候惠复，无任翘企。顺颂公祺。
弟朱家骅拜启
十一月十四日
〔国立中央大学校长室用笺。国家图书馆档案，档案编号1945-※057-综合5-004002和1945-※057-综合5-004003〕
胡颂平著《朱家骅先生年谱》，台北：传记文学出版社，1969年，页25。另该书就朱家骅辞任中央大学校长时间（十月底）表述并不准确，事实上他引咎辞职是1931年12月初。
按：据《朱家骅先生年谱》可知，1930年12月中旬，朱家骅就任国立中央大学校长，1931年8月
曾到北平协和医院治鼻病，“某君”，待考。此函为文书代笔，落款处为朱家骅亲笔。
十一月十六日
加斯基尔致函先生，告知康乃尔大学希望获得一册《永乐大典》抄写本、收到各种代购书籍，并汇款以支付垫款。
November 16, 1931
Dear Mr. Yuan,
We shall be glad to have a copy of whatever volume of the Yung Lo ta tien you decide upon-you know better than I which are of greatest interest. We prefer to have ms. facsimiles rather than photostats. We feel sure that the reproduction will be as accurate as it would be if it were made photographically, and that the manuscripts will be of great interest as examples of Chinese calligraphy and book making. I was very glad to learn that you were expecting to receive Mrs. Inglis'volume, and I hope you have it by this time. We are glad to know that you will be satisfied with the photostat copies in reduced size and I hope that we can have our other volumes done that way before long.
The set of the works of Chang Chih-tung has come and we are very glad to have it and grateful to you for securing it for us. The geographical dictionaries have not yet come but they probably will soon. I am very sorry not to have the Chung kuo jen ming ta tzu tien and complete set of the Chang ku ts'ung p'ien. Please send as nearly a complete set of the latter as you can get. I do not know just how our account stands because I have never received a statement as to the rate of exchange you got on the 25 gold, we sent Jan. 17, 1931. According to my account we have to our credit that $25 gold and $87.75 Mex, and debited against that a total of $271.95 Mex.（including the $133 for the works of Chang Chih-tung）. We are sending a check for $30 gold which ought to put us out of debt with a little to spare.
I trust your work is not being disturbed by the situation in Manchuria, and that by the time you get this letter that situation will be different. It does seem impossible that the Japanese can get away with such aggression.
Faithfully yours,
〔Cornell University Library, Wason Collection Records, 1918-1988, Box 1, Folder Koo, T. K. Letters〕
按：此件为底稿，右下有手写批注“P. S. added asking for information about Peiping Union Book Store”。
十一月中下旬
徐志摩致电胡适、先生，告知北京大学经费已有解决办法，即将北返。〔《华北日报》，1931年11月21日，第3版〕
按：19日中午，中国航空公司“济南号”在济南附近坠机，徐志摩和机组二人罹难。
十一月十九日
先生致信加斯基尔，询问寄送书籍是否收到，并恳请康乃尔大学继续为平馆印照其所藏《永乐大典》。
Nov. 19, 1931
Dear Miss Gaskill:
Sometime ago I sent you the following three works of reference:
1.中国人名大辞典
2.中国地名大辞典（National Academy of Peiping）
3.中国地名大辞典（Commercial Press）
Which must have reached you already. Have you received all the volumes of the Yi Wu Shih Mo?
We have been hoping to receive from you the photographic reprints of the volumes of the Yung Lo Ta Tien. May I request you to see if the rest of the volumes can be photographed sooner.
It was recorded in my census that volumes 13879-80 and 15868-70 were formerly in the possession of Dr. G. E. Morrison. Would it still be possible to find out the circumstances under which these volumes find their way to the late Mr. Wason?
Any personal assistance you can render in this connection will be highly appreciated.
With cordial regards,
Sincerely yours,
T. L. Yuan
Acting Director
〔国立北平图书馆英文信纸。Cornell University Library, Wason Collection Records, 1918-1988, Box 1, Folder Koo, T. K. Letters〕
按：此件为打字稿，信中中文书籍名、出版单位、落款均为先生亲笔。
十一月二十三日
先生、傅斯年电蔡元培，请其照顾吴其昌。〔《世界日报》，1931年11月27日，第7版〕
按：吴其昌（1904-1944），浙江海宁人，无锡国学专修馆毕业，1925年考入清华大学，师从王国维，时任清华大学讲师，因九一八事变，全家绝食并赴南京请愿、拜谒中山陵。
十一月二十六日
蔡元培覆电先生、傅斯年。
漾电敬悉。吴其昌沿途受优待，到后已由钱乙藜（昌照）兄等妥为招待，并劝进食。
元培。
〔《世界日报》，1931年11月27日，第7版〕
十二月九日
顾颉刚致函先生。〔《顾颉刚日记》卷2，页588〕
十二月十四日
下午，平馆召开购书委员会会议，陈垣（主席）、胡适、陈寅恪、傅斯年、先生、任鸿隽、赵万里、徐森玉、顾颉刚等人出席，会中讨论平馆购买蒋汝藻藏明人文集事。〔《顾颉刚日记》卷2，页590〕
按：蒋汝藻（1877-1954），字孟蘋，浙江湖州南浔人，实业家、藏书家。
十二月下旬
国剧学会举行集会，除该会会员外，李石曾、胡适、先生、于学忠、徐永昌等亦前往参加。〔《华北日报》，1931年12月31日，第6版〕
按：此时，该会会址为虎坊桥东45号。
先生致信徐乃昌，询程仲威《四书改错改》、胡秉虔《河州景忠录》未刻本是否需要代为钞写。〔《徐乃昌日记》，页1369〕
按：此二书存于清史馆内，徐乃昌正筹划《安徽丛书》编印，先生故有此问。
十二月三十日
刘承幹致函先生。〔《求恕斋日记》（稿本）〕
是年冬
朱启钤得营造社员马竹铭消息，有卖家在平兜售《乾隆御制铜版平番图》，索价千金，遂与先生商量，终由平馆购入。〔《中国营造学社汇刊》第3卷第1期，页189〕
按：该图涉及平定回部、金川、安南、苗疆四部，共86幅，原装初印完整无缺，原为乾隆朝大臣阿桂旧藏。
是年
先生赠《邻苏老人年谱》一册与故宫博物院。〔《故宫博物院档案汇编》第1册，页360〕
先生仍担任北平小剧院董事。〔《胡适日记全集》第6册，页579〕
按：1931年7月11日，胡适在日记中贴有《北平小剧院院刊》第4期剪报。该剧院董事会成员有赵元任（主席）、陈衡哲（副主席）、熊佛西（秘书）、周诒春、叶公超、陈治策（财务委员）、许地山、余上沅（常务委员）、胡适、徐彬彬、先生、泰丽琳（董事）。