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The Rock collection consists of correspondence, photographs, diaries and unpublished manuscripts.
Rock, Joseph Francis CharlesVolume 1 of a series of diaries written by Joseph Rock in China.
Volume 1 covers Yunnanfu [Kunming] to Cheng-tu between December 1924 and March 1925.
Transcript of Rock’s Diary, Vol. 8, 1927 entitled 'Cho-ni to Sung-Pan; Journey from Cho-ni via The-wu country to Chung-Cheng, Director Arnold Arboretum, Harvard Expedition. From March 9 to April 22 1927, Volume No. VIII (8)'
Transcript has been prepared for Rock and includes the corrections made in his annotated copy and although space has been left for him to add Chinese / Tibetan characters, this was not done.
Transcript of Rock’s Diary, Vol. 4, 1925
Transcript has been prepared for Rock and includes the corrections made in his annotated copy and although space has been left for him to add Chinese characters, this was not done.
