[KS] Percival Lowell

[Robert N]

Prof. Pai,

It definitely seems like you have access to far more information than I do
so I will share some information.  I agree with Frank Hoffman's list and
would add the following Korean Customs employees stationed in Seoul: H. G.
Arnous (My apologies to Frank - I neglected to notice he was stationed in
Seoul at the time), J. R. MacBeth and possibly the Austro-Hungarian Consul
at Shanghai, Haas.

As for when Lowell left Korea - not really sure of the date but we do know
he was in Chemulpo on March 20th, 1884.

Robert Neff

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 2:45 AM, Hyung Pai <hyungpai at eastasian.ucsb.edu>
wrote:

> 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
> HSSB Building, University of California, Santa Barbara
> CA 93106
> Fax: 805-893-7671
> Email: hyungpai at eastasian.ucsb.edu
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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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