[KS] Bishop Mark Napier Trollope

[jimhoare64 at aol.co.uk]

When Trollope died in 1930, his library was said to contain 10,000 Korean works - see the introduction by the Rev. Charles Hunt to Trollope's paper, "Corean books and their authors", published in the TKBRAS vol. 21 (1932). There are papers relating to Trollope in the the Anglican collection, but this mostly consists of papers collected by his sister when she was preparing her biography of him. I have not used these but have used the papers of the English Church Mission, which used to be in London but which are now I believe at Rhodes House in Oxford. I was looking at them in the context of the building of the Anglican Cathedral but was not aware of anything about his book collection.

him Hoare





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From: Ross King <jrpking at interchange.ubc.ca>
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Subject: Re: [KS] Bishop Mark Napier Trollope


Bishop Trollope's library ended up in what is now the Rare Book Collection of 
Yonsei University Library (Bishop Rutt's book on Gale includes some snippets of 
information about the Trollope collection and its fate in the endnotes). 
Trollope and J S Gale went around buying books together for the Kyung Shin 
School, and bought and sold old Korean books from/to each other. I am working on 
a full accounting of Gale's book-collecting activities for a paper I'm giving at 
the Kyujanggak in late December, and should have a more precise story to tell 
then. 

I would be curious to know whether and to what extent the Yonsei Library Rare 
Book section acknowledges the significant collecting activity conducted by both 
Gale and Trollope that would later benefit their collection. It seems that this 
is rather glossed over, as the recent multi-volume translation of the important 
early-19th c. yadam collection, _Kimun ch'onghwa_, translated by Kim Tong-uk, is 
oblivious to the fact that the edition translated was purchased by Gale on 
behalf of Kyung Shin School (Gale himself translated about 20% of this extensive 
collection--stay tuned for a book on this edited by myself and Sinae Park). In 
any case, the Yonsei Library seems to be rather too casual when it comes to the 
provenance of many of its rare books.

Bishop Trollope's private papers and correspondence, on the other hand, probably 
survive in England, in the Anglican missionary archive in Manchester (? there is 
an impressive website with preliminary finder lists); I suppose it is possible 
that the odd book or two might be among his papers, but I rather doubt it. What 
_would_ be interesting to know is whether there is any significant Gale 
correspondence among his papers, as Gale himself was lousy at keeping copies of 
his correspondence, or at least, the Gale archive as it survives in Toronto has 
little or no personal correspondence, which is a pity, as he and Trollope were 
quite close and were pretty much the only two westerners in Korea back then who 
knew hanmun. (Gale, on the other hand, kept rather detailed records of all his 
book-buying activities, as his purchases were usually transacted with the monies 
of others; he had no money of his own, and complained constantly that Japanese 
collectors had more or less 'strip-mined' the rare book market).

RK

> color:#003300'Dear members,
> color:#003300'I wonder if anyone would have information or know the whereabout
> of the library of Bishop Mark Napier Trollope.
> color:#003300'In the
> book Mark Napier Trollope Bishop in Corea 1911-1930 (London:
> Society for promoting Christian knowledge, 1936, p.16, it is mentioned
> that he was a keen collector of old Korean books, his library of old Korean
> books numbered something round ten thousand volumes, and contains many
> priceless editions. Any information would be much appreciated.
> color:#003300'Best regards,
> color:#003300'
> color:#003300'Minh Chung
> color:#003300'The Bodleian Library 
> color:#003300'University of Oxford
--
Ross King
Professor of Korean and Head,
Department of Asian Studies, 
University of British Columbia, 

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