The collection consists of:
- papers relating to his role as Professor of Chinese, including lectures delivered, notebooks, translations, drafts of a Chinese-English phrase book and dictionary
- papers of Legge and his family, consisting of a copy of a twentieth-century journal kept by Hannah Mary Johnstone before her marriage to Legge, autobiographical notes by Legge, and miscellaneous Legge family papers.
Dates
- Creation: c.1839-1951
Extent
0.85 Linear metres (22 boxes)
Language of Materials
- English
- Chinese
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MS. Eng. misc. c. 863, fols. 1-2].
Full range of shelfmarks:
MSS. Eng. misc. c. 863-865, d. 1252-1265, e. 1377-1381
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 13074
Abstract
Archive of James Legge
Biographical / Historical
James Legge (1815-1897) was a missionary and sinologist. He was the first Professor of Chinese at Oxford University, 1876-1897. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.
Other Finding Aids
M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 45112-45130.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The papers were given to the Library in 1983 by Miss M.D. Legge after depositing them in 1947.
Subject
- Title
- Catalogue of the archive of James Legge
- Status
- Published
- Author
- Collection Level Description by Emily Tarrant; EAD version 2019 by Alice Whichelow; Updated 2022 by C. McIlwaine
- Date
- EAD version 2022
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
Weston Library
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Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
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