[KS] Re: Reginald Horace Blyth

[Ross King]

Hi Christine:

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>I am attaching a skimpy and tantalizing chronology of Blyth's life;
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>http://www.gardendigest.com/blyth.htm#Biography

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Fascinating link! Many thanks.

>I will check out the textbook . . .

I found UBC's copy (of the second edition, from 1962; 1st ed. was 1950)
about an hour ago (I had been under the mistaken impression a few hours ago
that it had been lost), which only mentions on the title page that Blyth
was 'Formerly Professor at Keijo Imperial University', and otherwise
provides no information (not much to look at as a textbook, either -- more
of a teach-yourself-type booklet).

Major bummer that "His home and extensive library were destroyed in a
bombing raid during
the war."

One presumes his two daughters from his second marriage to Tomiko Blyth
(Nana and Harumi) are still alive, and might have preserved materials from
his years at Keijo Imperial University starting in 1925. It would also be
interesting to know what happened to his first wife, Annie Bercovitch, whom
he divorced in 1935.

Does anybody know how many such non-Korean/non-Japanese professors there
were teaching at Keijo Imperial University?

Cheers,

Ross King




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