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1.3.0 2026-07-29 brev Rådata 514905 arkivdokument Statens museer för världskultur - Östasiatiska museet SMVK-OM Dokument http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-OM/arkivdokument/514905 E1A-2_0117-0118, E1A-2_0118, E1A-2_0117 SE would naturally be much more pleasant for me to present my interpretation of the pre-history of China to the Society of Antiquaries in a more definite and concise manner than is » possible at present. May I be allowed to mention that the University of London has invited me to deliver a lecture on this subject, and I am now writing them and asking for a similar postponement until the winter of 1928 to 1929, I am also writing to the Swedish Legation in London to ask our Minister to negotiate with you and with the Uni- versity of London to ascertain whether the desired postpone- ment is possible or not. I would like to repeat thet I am extremely anxious to take advantage of the two invitations from your city and to combine tnem under the same date, Consequently, I am prepared to go to London this winter if it is considered absolutely necessary. However, I feel fully convinced that amyear later, when the material has fully studied, I will be able to give a much better representation of my arecheological work in Ohina. Meanwhile I am quite willing to promise that I will, before my lectures in London, give no other lectures on my archeologicel work outside Sacndinavia., Most respectfully yours, Sö OM, October l0tn, 1927 The President, Society of Antiquaries of London, Barl of Crawford & Balcarres, 7 Audley Square, W 1 London. Sir: I apologize for my belated reply to your kind favour of July 5th. Immediately upon my return from China in May of this year my physician prescribed that I take a complete rest. I have just returned from my sojourn in Italy and have only during the last few days been able to attend to my office duties and to my correspondenece , May I ask you to kindly present my respectful thanks to tne Society of Antiquaries of London for the great honour they have bestowed upon me in asking me to read a paper on my areceheological work in China. It would give me great pleasure to avail myself of your offer, however I wish to respectfully inquire whether these lectures might not be postponed until the winter 2928 to 1929 for the reasons as explained below: First, we are now working very earnestly to prepare our new museum, Ostasiatiska Samlingarna /the East Asiatic Collec- tions/ for the opening which will take place on the 15th of January 1928, Second, and this is the most serious reason for re- questing a postponement, we are now preparing the definite mono- graphs on the Prehistoric Sites of China, New developments and considerable revision of my earlier views are in sight and it Tillverkad Andersson, Johan Gunnar 1928-10-10 Mottagen Crawford of balcarres image/jpeg https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-om/web/image/tn/10058168/E1A-2_0117.jpg https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-om/web/image/zoom/10058167/E1A-2_0117.jpg http://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/License#cc0 Andersson, Johan Gunnar Utgången upphovsrätt image/jpeg https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-om/web/image/tn/10058172/E1A-2_0118.jpg https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-om/web/image/zoom/10058171/E1A-2_0118.jpg http://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/License#cc0 Andersson, Johan Gunnar Utgången upphovsrätt http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-OM/arkiv/204081 http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/name/1239710 http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/name/25342483 http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-OM/arkivdokument/html/514905 http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-OM/arkivdokument/xml/514905 http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-OM/arkivdokument/rdf/514905
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SE would naturally be much more pleasant for me to present my interpretation of the pre-history of China to the Society of Antiquaries in a more definite and concise manner than is » possible at present. May I be allowed to mention that the University of London has invited me to deliver a lecture on this subject, and I am now writing them and asking for a similar postponement until the winter of 1928 to 1929, I am also writing to the Swedish Legation in London to ask our Minister to negotiate with you and with the Uni- versity of London to ascertain whether the desired postpone- ment is possible or not. I would like to repeat thet I am extremely anxious to take advantage of the two invitations from your city and to combine tnem under the same date, Consequently, I am prepared to go to London this winter if it is considered absolutely necessary. However, I feel fully convinced that amyear later, when the material has fully studied, I will be able to give a much better representation of my arecheological work in Ohina. Meanwhile I am quite willing to promise that I will, before my lectures in London, give no other lectures on my archeologicel work outside Sacndinavia., Most respectfully yours,
Sö OM, October l0tn, 1927 The President, Society of Antiquaries of London, Barl of Crawford & Balcarres, 7 Audley Square, W 1 London. Sir: I apologize for my belated reply to your kind favour of July 5th. Immediately upon my return from China in May of this year my physician prescribed that I take a complete rest. I have just returned from my sojourn in Italy and have only during the last few days been able to attend to my office duties and to my correspondenece , May I ask you to kindly present my respectful thanks to tne Society of Antiquaries of London for the great honour they have bestowed upon me in asking me to read a paper on my areceheological work in China. It would give me great pleasure to avail myself of your offer, however I wish to respectfully inquire whether these lectures might not be postponed until the winter 2928 to 1929 for the reasons as explained below: First, we are now working very earnestly to prepare our new museum, Ostasiatiska Samlingarna /the East Asiatic Collec- tions/ for the opening which will take place on the 15th of January 1928, Second, and this is the most serious reason for re- questing a postponement, we are now preparing the definite mono- graphs on the Prehistoric Sites of China, New developments and considerable revision of my earlier views are in sight and it
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Andersson, Johan Gunnar
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