[KS] Re: Reginald Horace Blyth

[Charles Armstrong]

Ross,

Though not at Keijo U., there was a British teacher at a Korean middle
school in Seoul in the 1920s/early 1930s who wrote an interesting memoir
called "Korea of the Japanese", last name Drake. His book is fairly widely
available.
                                                      Charles
-----Original Message-----
From: Ross King <jrpking at unixg.ubc.ca>
To: korean-studies at mailbase.ac.uk <korean-studies at mailbase.ac.uk>
Date: Saturday, July 15, 2000 7:37 AM
Subject: Re: Reginald Horace Blyth


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