WERNER, Edward Theodore Chalmers.

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Memorigrams. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the inner front cover, "To Mrs Hope Danby from E. T. C. Werner. Peking, 1940." Loosely inserted is an autograph letter signed, written by Werner from the British Embassy compound, sending Danby the book.Werner (1864-1954) lived most of his life in China and wrote several works on Chinese mythology. Memorigrams is a selection of his essays and poems, some previously published in periodicals, addressing aspects of Chinese history and culture and his own life. The final two pieces concern the still-unsolved murder of his daughter in Beijing in 1937.A mainstay of the Beijing social scene, Hope Danby (1889-1981) was a prolific writer on Chinese history and archaeology. She was a friend of the controversial scholar-collector Edmund Backhouse and wrote his entry for the Dictionary of National Biography.

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