Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1942 - 1997 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
18 archival boxes
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Angus C. Graham was born in 1919, in Penarth, Wales, and was educated in Penarth and Shropshire before attending Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he attained a BA in Theology in 1940. He served in the Royal Air Force during WWII, taking a Services… read more
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
The material belonged to Angus Graham until his death in 1991. It was then kept by his family until they sought a place for it to be archived. It was donated to the Royal Asiatic Society in 2018.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
The material was donated by Dawn Baker, daughter of Angus Graham, in 2018.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The Papers of Angus C. Graham include material pertaining to both book and article publications, to reviews written and to his translation, poetry and short story work. It includes correspondence with other academics in his field and with some poets.… read more
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
The material arrived in boxes which had previously been listed and assigned a numerical order, but not arranged. Connected material was not together. The decision was made not to keep the original order but to create an order that should aid future researchers.
System of arrangement
The following series were created (the first 12 series are for his published books):
- ACG/1 - Two Chinese Philosophers: Ch'eng Ming-tao and Ch'eng Yi-ch'uan
- ACG/2 - The Book of Lieh-tzu
- ACG/3 - The Problem of Value
- ACG/4 - Poems of the Late T'ang
- ACG/5 - … read more
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Mostly open. Some papers are closed for confidentiality reasons. Please contact the archivist using the email address given here. The archive is open on Tuesdays and Fridays 10-5, and Thursdays 2-5. Access is to any researcher without appointment but it… read more
Conditions governing reproduction
Digital photography (without flash) for research purposes may be permitted upon completion of a copyright declaration form, and with respect to current UK copyright law.
Language of material
- Burmese
- Chinese
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Sanskrit
Allied materials area
Related units of description
At the time of the donation of the Papers, Angus Graham's library of Chinese books and material relating to his research was also donated. This is a rich resource for researchers in this field.
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Lund Humphries (Subject)
- Open Court Publishing Company (Subject)
- John Murray (Subject)
- Penguin books (Subject)
- Allen and Unwin (Subject)
- University of London School of Oriental and African Studies (Subject)
- Barnes & Noble (Subject)
- Cornell … read more
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Description identifier
Archivist's note
This material was catalogued by Nancy Charley, RAS Archivist, in 2020. The archivist is grateful to the compilers of the list that arrived with the Papers, particularly for their Chinese language skills in identifying some of the material: Professor… read more