[KS] Percival Lowell

[Hyung Pai]

Dear members,
Thank you for the many helpful comments and suggestions for resources from Ed, Frank, Wayne, and Oak.
My original intent was to just work on the photographs but then I found that only a handful were included or described in his book- and I had a hard time identifying the landmarks and so now this research has expanded beyond my comfort zone.

I apologize about the years typos.
 According to his sister, the poet Amy Lowell's biography on Lowell, Percival arrived around Christmas 1883 and stayed for less than two months, and left sometime after Feb 17th 1884
 when he wrote a letter to another sister, Bessie saying he had taken more than 53 negatives of scenes in about Soul, groups and individuals and that he had been urged by the Coreans to write a book; as well as he intended to send to his majesty a collection of my photographs printed in Japan upon my return ( Amy Lowell , Biography of Percival Lowell (1935), page 16. He kept both his promises.

I believe many of the people that Frank mentioned were residing in Chemulpo since many were customs officials and Lowell’s count of 9 individuals were the ones he encountered living in central Seoul.
At present I am going through his correspondence compiled in five volumes so see what I can find. Looks like it is going to take a while


Hyung Il Pai
Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
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On Apr 6, 2015, at 10:51 AM, Hyung Pai <hyungpai at eastasian.ucsb.edu> wrote:

> Dear Koreanists, 
> 
> I am working on a paper on Percival Lowell and his travel photographs, In his widely read travelogue ( Land of the Morning Calm during the Winter of 1882-83, he brags that he was amongst 9 Westerners residing in Seoul at the time
> He mentions Lucius Foote, and Von Moellendorf ( not including his Japanese wife and two kids),
> Is this true? Who would the 7 others be? Can we confirm who they are. This time period early 1880s in Korean history is a new area for me . 
> Hyung Il Pai
> Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
> HSSB Building, University of California, Santa Barbara
> CA 93106
> Fax: 805-893-7671
> Email: hyungpai at eastasian.ucsb.edu
> Dept Home-page profile: http://www.eastasian.ucsb.edu/home/faculty/hyung-il-pai/
> 

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