1.3.02026-11-11brevRådata511354arkivdokumentStatens museer för världskultur - Östasiatiska museetSMVK-OMDokumenthttp://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-OM/arkivdokument/511354E1A-14_0249-0250, E1A-14_0250, E1A-14_02490249 Ae 17th Oetober 1936 Fo Court Leys, FS Toot Baldon, AS Oxford. Dear Professor Karlgren, Do excuse my writing to you again &0 soon about the paper that Beck & I propose to contribute. If you will look at my letter of October 9th, you will see that in the second paragraph I said that some of the chemical aspecte of the subject sre being treated by Dr. Fitcehie in a techrical journal published in America. That Ritchie wrote this psper < sent it to America was in part due to a mis- underetending of something I had written to him. When he realized that he was to some extent anticipating our results, he was so good es to cable to America asking that the publication of his psper might be poetponed, & I have this morning heard from him that the Americars have agreed to this. I am, however, not very easy in my mind about it. Although I consider, thet Dr.Ritchie did use some material belonging to Beck & myself So reasonable of him to uee, I nevertheless cannot help membering that he has done a great deal of chemical work for us,& thst he ie a young man with perhaps not too easy an immediste future before him, & although I have not yet had the oppor- tunity of consulting Beck I am sure he will agree with me that the publication of Eitehie's paper should not be held up indefinitely. I therefore write to ask you, suppoeing you receive the paper from .Beck & myself not later then the first fortnight in January, how soon do you think it can appear in the Bulletin of the Bact Asiatic Museum?0250 If the delay is likely to be much more than six months, then I feel that some sort of a compromise should be reached, possibly en arrangement by which Ritchie should publish the strietly chemical sspects of his work in the technical journal in question, leaving all but the merest outline of the archeaeology, with a good deal of chemical matter on other groups of glass that we have studied together, to be published by Zeck & myself/ in the Bulletin of the East Asiatic Museum. This in fect is what I had in mind when I wrote to you on October 9th, beceuse it seemed to me at thet time that it wes unlikely that the Americans wqul to postpone « Ånsoyttej publicetion of Ritchie's paper. [/I th it best to write agein make the matter quite cleer to you. While it was still uncertain whether the Americans would hold up his peper, Ritehie made one suggestion with which feck & I were quite ready to agree, namely that the three of us should collaborate to produce a short letter to Neture, giving in barest outline our conclusions with regard to the chemical constitution of two groups of Cyinese glass, (a) pre-Han & Hen, (b) T'eng. The editor of Nature tells me that he will publish thie in the number of Oct.24th, & naturally I ehall send you a copy. Let me add thet the estimate of colour plates, ordinary plates, & folding insets of spectrogrems,remeins as in my letter of October 9th. With best regerås, Youre very sincerely, IlekgrarTillverkadSeligman, Charles Gabriel1936-10-17MottagenKarlgren, Bernhardimage/jpeghttps://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-om/web/image/tn/10217445/E1A-14_0249.jpghttps://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-om/web/image/zoom/10217444/E1A-14_0249.jpghttp://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/License#by-nc-ndSeligman, Charles GabrielStatens museer för världskulturimage/jpeghttps://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-om/web/image/tn/10217449/E1A-14_0250.jpghttps://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-om/web/image/zoom/10217448/E1A-14_0250.jpghttp://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/License#by-nc-ndSeligman, Charles GabrielStatens museer för världskulturhttp://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-OM/arkiv/204093http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/name/3213279http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/name/3212997http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-OM/arkivdokument/html/511354http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-OM/arkivdokument/xml/511354http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-OM/arkivdokument/rdf/511354