University of Sheffield Library. Special Collections and Archives Ref: MS 163 Title: Grayson Papers Scope: Correspondence and research notes of Professor James Huntley Grayson, from his time spent in East Asia in between 1965 and 2004 Dates: 1965-2004 Level: Fonds Extent: 5 boxes Name of creator: James Huntley Grayson Administrative / biographical history: The collection consists of two parts: photocopied correspondence from James Huntley Grayson to his parents in America from Taiwan, Japan and Korea between 1965 and 1987; field notes, research material, etc. compiled by James Huntley Grayson during research visits to Manchuria, Korea, Japan and Mongolia between 1982 and 2004. James Huntley Grayson is Emeritus Professor of Modern Korean Studies at the University of Sheffield. He was awarded a B.A. in Anthropology from Rutgers University, New Jersey, U.S.A., in 1966, an M.A. in Anthropology from Columbia University in 1968, and a PhD in the History of Religion from Edinburgh University in 1979. He served as a Methodist missionary in Korea from 1971 to 1987, after which he returned to the U.K. as a Lecturer (later Senior Lecturer, Reader and Professor) in Korean Studies at the University of Sheffield until his retirement in 2009. Related collections: Grayson East Asian Slide Collection Source: Donated by Professor Grayson in 1988 (correspondence) and 2008-2014 (field notes) System of arrangement: By category and chronologically Subjects: Korea; Taiwan; Japan; Manchuria (China); Mongolia Names: Grayson, James Huntley Conditions of access: Available to all researchers, by appointment Restrictions: None Copyright: According to document Finding aids: Listed MS 163 Grayson Papers Section 1 Correspondence Photocopies of correspondence, mostly from James Huntley Grayson in Taiwan, Japan, Korea and the United Kingdom to his parents in America. 163/1/1 Letters 1965, 1967. 14 items 163/1/2 Letters 1971. 16 items 163/1/3 Letters 1972. 35 items 163/1/4 Letters 1973. 46 items 163/1/5 Letters 1974. 53 items 163/1/6 Letters 1975. 55 items 163/1/7 Letters 1976. 36 items 163/1/8 Letters 1977. 40 items 163/1/9 Letters 1978. 36 items 163/1/10 Letters 1979. 30 items 163/1/11 Letters 1980. 37 items 163/1/12 Letters 1981. 40 items 163/1/13 Letters 1982. 44 items 163/1/14 Letters 1983. 39 items 163/1/15 Letters 1984. 51 items 163/1/16 Letters 1985. 38 items 163/1/17 Letters 1986. 47 items 163/1/18 Letters 1987. 3 items 163/1/19 Letters to church 1972-1983 & undated. 19 items Sections 2-6 Field Notes, research materials, etc. 163/2/1 Trip to Manchuria, 1985 163/2/1/1-9 Tourist maps and guidebooks (including some English text) to Changchun, Guangzhou, Shenyang, Yingkou and Yong He Gong. 9 items, printed 163/2/1/10 Folder contacting 16 postcards of “Views of Harbin, Changchun, Shenyang and Dalian etc.” Printed 163/2/1/11-13 Three guidebooks in Chinese text. Printed 163/2/1/14 Page of manuscript notes mostly in Korean script 163/2/2 Trip to Ullŭng-Do, 1995 163/2/2/1 Research form on the shrines of Ullung-Do (J.H. Grayson), University of Sheffield Centre for Korean Studies. Printed. 6 ll. 163/2/2/2 Notebook (Yonsei University on cover) containing manuscript research notes 163/2/2/3 Guidebook to the “Mysterious Island Ullŭngdo”. Colour photographs, English and Korean text, printed, 24 ll. 163/2/2/4 “Tour of Cheju Island”. Colour photographs, English and Korean text, printed, 30 ll. 163/2/2/5 Guidebook to Ullung-Do. Colour photographs, Korean text, printed, 119 ll. 163/2/2/6 Statistical Year Book of Ul Lŭng, 1994. Korean text, printed, 253 ll. 163/2/2/7 Booklet, 1995. Korean text, printed, 24 ll. (2 copies) 163/2/2/8 Colour map of Ullŭng-Do. Korean text 163/2/2/9 Photocopied documents from shrines. Korean script. 20 ll. 163/2/2/10 Photocopied article by Geo. H. Winn entitled “A Trip to Oollung do (Dagalet Island)” Parts 1 and 2, from The Korea Mission Field vol. 19, 1923, no. 9 pp.193-195 and no. 10 pp. 217-219. 6 ll. 163/2/3 Research materials relating to Kimhae (South Korea) 163/2/3/1 Two pages of manuscript notes, in English and Korean 163/2/3/2 Photocopy of text in Korean. 5 ll. 163/2/3/3-7 Five Korean maps. Printed, colour. 163/2/4 Research trip to Japan, 1999 Green ring binder containing plan for trip, sketches, notes, etc. Manuscript. 120 ll. 163/2/5 Trip to Mongolia, 2004 163/2/5/1 Notebook (The World of Learning on cover) containing itinerary for trip and research notes. Manuscript, 30 ll. 163/2/5/2 Mongolia: a traveler’s handbook by Battulga Tumurdash (Ulaanbaatar: Mongolia Travel News, 2001). English text, 112 ll. 163/2/5/3-9 Tourist maps and guidebooks (English and French text) to Bogd Khaan Palace Museum, Hustai National Park, Erdene Zuu Monastery, Mongolia generally). 7 items, printed 163/2/5/10 Folder containing 8 postcards of the Bogd Khaan Palace Museum. Printed 163/2/6 Research writings on Kwallye Samga Blue ring binder containing correspondence, notes, maps, photographs, typescripts and photocopies relating to the Kwallye Samga of Korea, a Christianised Confucian Capping Ceremony. Typescript and manuscript 163/2/7 Facsimile of deeds for a Methodist cemetery in China Photocopies of deeds from the Yung Jung cemetery in China, provided by the Archives Division, General Commission on Archives and History, The United Methodist Church, with accompanying plan and correspondence. Typescript, 11 ll. 163/2/8 Envelope of postcards Fourteen B&W postcards, plus two colour photographs Section 3 Album of photographs of Korea 163/3 Collection of photographs of Korean tombs, temples, etc. 17 ll. Section 4 Documents relating to the Royal Asiatic Society tour of Inch’ŏn (Korea), 1982 163/4 Five items. Ts & printed Section 5 Collection of postcards 163/5 123 colour postcards of Korea, plus two photographs and and entrance ticket to Donghwasa Temple Section 6 Documents relating to visits to Japan 163/6 Postcards and guides from visitor attractions Section 7 Publications 1. Sverre Holth, Karl Ludvig Reichelt and Tao Fong Shan (Hong Kong: Tao Fong Shan Christian Institute, [1953]) 2. Ching Feng: quarterly notes on Christianity and Chinese religion and culture Volume 18 No. 4, 1975 3. Ching Feng No. 46, Autumn 1975 Books on Russian folklore: 4. D.S. Dugarov, Istoricheskie korni belogo shamanstva: na materiale obriadovogo folklora buriat (Moscow: Nauka, 1991) 5. Uligerbi ononskikh khamnigam (Novosibirsk: Izdatelbstvo Nauka, 1982) 6. Pamiatniki folklora narodov Sibiri i Dalnego Vostoka: Evenkiiskie Geroicheskie Skazaniia: Khrabryi Sodani-Bogatyr, Vsesilnyi Bogatyr Develchen V Rasshitoi- Razukrashennoi Odezhde (Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1990) 7. Pamiatniki folklora narodov Sibiri i Dalnego Vostoka: Nanaiskii folklor: Ningman, siokhor, telungu (Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1996) 8. Pamiatniki folklora narodov Sibiri i Dalnego Vostoka: Folklor udegeitsev: Nimanku, Telungu, Ekhe (Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1998) 9. N.A. Nevskii, Ainskii folklor (Moscow: Nauka, 1972) 10. Legendi i mifi severa (Moscow: Sovremennik, 1985) 11. L.P. Potapov, Altaiskii shamanizm (Leningrad: Nauka, 1991) 12. Mifi, predaniia, skazki khantov i mansi (Moscow: Nauka, 1990) 13. A.V. Romanova & A.N. Mireeva, Folklor evenkov iakutii (Leningrad: Nauka, 1971) 14. Skazki narodov severa (Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo hudozhestvennoj literatury, 1959) .