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Publications from the Satow Papers in Chronological Order APPENDIX II Publications from the Satow Papers in Chronological Order IAN RUXTON Ian Ruxton, The Diaries and Letters of Sir Ernest Mason Satow (1843– 1929): A Scholar-Diplomat in East Asia, Edwin Mellen Press, 1998 (This is a general introduction to Satow’s whole life and letters. It was translated by S. Nagaoka and H. Sekiguchi as A-nestu Sato- no Sho-gai, published by Yushodo in 2003.) Ian Ruxton (ed.), The Diaries of Sir Ernest Satow, British Minister in Tokyo (1895–1900): A Diplomat Returns to Japan, Tokyo: Edition Synapse, 2003, with an introduction by Dr Nigel Brailey, republished through lulu.com in 2010. (This is a full annotated transcription of Satow’s diaries including his separate diary for time spent at Lake Chuzenji.) Ian Ruxton (ed.), The Correspondence of Sir Ernest Satow, British Minister in Japan, 1895–1900, Volume One, lulu.com, 2005. (Chiefly official letters addressed and sent to Satow from the Foreign Office, the Tokyo legation and consular staff at Hakodate,Kobe and Nagasaki,with some replies.Satow Papers reference PRO 30/33 5/1 through 5/10.) Ian Ruxton (ed.), The Diaries of Sir Ernest Satow, British Envoy in Peking (1900–06), lulu.com, 2006 (Two volumes.Volume 1 – 1900–03;Volume 2 – 1904–06) with an introduction by Dr James E. Hoare. (Satow was at Peking during the Russo-Japanese War and visited Japan on his way home to retire from the Foreign Office in 1906.) Ian Ruxton (ed.), The Semi-Official Letters of British Envoy Sir Ernest Satow from Japan and China (1895–1906), lulu.com, 2007, with an introduction by Dr James E. Hoare. (The first part of this volume contains letters from Japan which explained and amplified matters written in the official despatches, file FO 46.) Ian Ruxton (ed.), Sir Ernest Satow’s Private Letters to W. G. Aston and F.V. Dickins:The Correspondence of a Pioneer Japanologist from 1870 to 1918, lulu. com, 2008, with an introduction by Professor Peter F. Kornicki. (These let- ters reveal more about Satow as a scholar and private person.) Ian Ruxton (ed.), A Diplomat in Japan Part II:The Diaries of Ernest Satow, 1870–1883, lulu.com, 2009, with an introduction by Sir Hugh Cortazzi. (Since A Diplomat in Japan published in 1921 was mainly based on Satow’s diaries for 1862–69, it was thought appropriate to give this volume the 721 BRITAIN & JAPAN: BIOGRAPHICAL PORTRAITSVOLUMEVIII title A Diplomat in Japan Part II. It includes accounts of travels in Japan and Europe.As Japanese Secretary to the Legation his work was not arduous.) Ian Ruxton (ed.), The Correspondence of Sir Ernest Satow, British Minister in Japan, 1895–1900, Volume Two, lulu.com, 2011. (The letters in Volume Two are all from Yokohama: the Consulate, H.M. Court for Japan and the Chamber of Commerce. They are almost all addressed to Satow, though Gerard Augustus Lowther was Legation Secretary and Chargé d’Affaires in 1897 when Satow went home for leave and to attend the Diamond Jubilee. The consular letters are mainly from the Consul or Acting Consul but some are from other consular officials. As with Volume One, Satow sometimes includes copies or drafts of his replies to letters, or merely notes at the top of the letter the date it was received and how it was answered.) JAPAN CONSULAR CORRESPONDENCE IN THE SATOW PAPERS, 1895–1900 OUTLINE BY IAN RUXTON Among the vast collection of documents, including memoranda, letters and his personal diaries which Sir Ernest Satow (1843–1929) left to posterity in the Satow Papers (PRO 30/33 1–23) deposited at the Public Record Office in accordance with his wishes after his death, the series relating to his time as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Japan (1895–1900) is of particular interest to Japan scholars and historians of the period.These papers have not been studied in detail until now. I am now engaged in tran- scribing the many handwritten letters and annotating them for publication. They will become companion volumes to Satow’s diaries for the period, which I have already transcribed and annotated, and which were first pub- lished by Edition Synapse of Tokyo in 2003. Two volumes have already been published through lulu.com as follows: The Correspondence of Sir Ernest Satow, British Minister in Japan, 1895–1900, Volume One (2005);Volume Two (2011). Here I should like to introduce part of the material (PRO 30/33 5) and indicate some of the highlights. PRO 30/33 5/1 – This is the shortest of the files by some considerable margin, since it only contains two letters from Foreign Secretary Lord Kim- berley to Satow.The first one, dated 1 June 1895 confirms his appointment by Queen Victoria as Envoy Extraordinary, Minister Plenipotentiary and Consul-General in Japan on a salary of £4,000 per annum, with an outfit allowance of £1,400.The second dated 25 June 1895 refers to a letter (not on file) from QueenVictoria to Emperor Meiji accrediting Satow as Envoy and Minister which Satow was to deliver in the usual way. The letter was acknowledged by the Emperor when Satow had an audience with him on 9 August, which is related in Satow’s diary. PRO 30/33 5/2 – This file contains the official correspondence from the Foreign Office in London to Satow. The first one dated 25 January 1895 is to Satow’s predecessor, Hon. P.H. Le Poer Trench from the Assistant Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Sir Francis Hyde Villiers (1852–1925). It concerns Trench’s recommendation 722.
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