Collections : [Rare Book & Manuscript Library]

A collection of letters, notes, lectures, and reprints by Sansom, including correspondence between Sansom and professor Evarts B. Greene dealing with the hiring of Sansom as a visiting professor for the 1935-1936 academic year; holograph and typed lectures given during his second appointment as visiting professor, 1940-1941; a holograph notebook of miscellaneous items; a binder of holograph notes and essays on Japanese cultural history which possibly was drawn upon for his book, JAPAN, A SHORT CULTURAL HISTORY, 1931; and a list of Japanese books consigned by Sansom to Columbia University in 1941.

A group of fifteen letters from Hearn to Basil Hall Chamberlain (1850-1935), professor of Japanese and Philology at the Imperial University in Tokyo and Hearn's closest Western friend in Japan. The letters cover a tremendously varied range of subjects including Hearn's opinion of his own writing, his methods of work and use of language; his discontent as a teacher at the government college at Kumamoto; his views on religion, philosophy, and music; Japanese customs, mythology, art, and language; the Oriental character vs. the Occidental; and critical opinion of Paul Boerget's LE DISCIPLE and of Lewis Carroll.