Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse (1873-1944) was a historian and sinologist. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Memoirs of Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, consisting of:

• 'The dead past', 1943
• 'Decadence Mandchoue', 1942-3
• Final typescript version of 'The dead past', 1943
• Final typescript version of 'Decadence Mandchoue', 1943

The memoirs were bequeathed to the Library by Reinhard Hoeppli in 1973.

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/admissions/).

For conservation reasons, microfilms are to be consulted in place of the original papers.

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. 45669-72.

The collection was used in H.R. Trevor-Roper, Hermit of Peking, the hidden life of Sir Edmund Backhouse (London, 1979).

Autobiography

Backhouse | Edmund Trelawney | 1873-1944 | Sir | Knight, Historian, and Sinologist

China