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Diary includes monograph on the Island of Palmyra and diary of “My trip around the World begun Honolulu, Sept 14 1913 on USA Transport Thomas”

Joseph Rock's diary covering the years 1921-1923.
The diary includes Includes:
• Dec. 30th 1921 to May 10th 1922 – Journey from Chiengmai to Li-kiang, NW Yun-nan [with 5 loose photographs];
• Ascent of Lichiang snow range up to little over 17000 feet elevation
• Ascent of Lichiang Snow Range to an altitude of 16000 feet, August 27th 1922
• Vegetation on Likiang snow range in September
• Journey from Ta-li to T’eng-Yueh, September 23rd 1922 to October 9th 1922
• Journey from T’eng-Yueh to Lung-ling, October 19th 1922 to Oct 25th 1922
• Journey from T’eng-Yueh to Sadon in Burma, November 7th to 22nd 1922
• Tengyueh to Hsuehshan-ting, November 25th [1922?]
• Journey from Tzu-ku to Champutong on the Salwin, October 21st to November 1st 1923
• Trip to Chantabum from Bangkok, November 28th

Diary of Joseph F.C. Rock dating to between 1923 and 1924.
The diary has been written in three parts:

• Notes on Yunnan 1923 (Feb 1923-Mar1923)
• Journey from Nguluko to Atuntze - Liutichiang, Dokerla - Tsarong, Peimashan, Tungchuling and return to Nguluko (Oct1923-Dec1923)
• J.F. Rock Agricultural Explorer, U.S. Dept of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington D.C. (Jan1924-Apr1924)
  Naxi vocabulary, p.28; diary also features other vocabularies, including Tibetan.

Diary of J.F.C. Rock,1925 entitled “Volume III, Diary of Joseph F. Rock, Director Arnold Arboretum Harvard University Central Asiatic Expedition from May 26th to August 31st 1925 inclusive. Locations travelled between include, Cho-ni to T’ie-Pu and Lan-Chou.
Includes loose sheets of notes.

Diary of J.F. Rock Volume 2; Ch’eng-tu to Choni, 1925
Diary is titled: "Szechuan to Kansu, Vol. II; Diary of Joseph F. Rock,
Director Harvard – Arnold Arboretum Expedition from
Chengtu to Choni, March 17th to May 23rd 1925."
The diary includes loose papers including list of Choni lamaseries in Chinese and lists and maps written on some of Rock’s Nakhi [Naxi] dictionary index cards

Diary of J.F. Rock Volume 4; Lan-Chou to Kokonor Babo, 1925
The diary is entitled “Kansu Province, Diary Vol. IV of Joseph F. Rock Director Harvard Arnold Arboretum Asiatic Expedition from August 31st in part to November 16th 1925. From Hsiangtang to Kokonor Babo and return to Sining.
Includes sheet of Chinese writing on Chinese paper and loose notes, including lists [of plants? Photographs?]

Diary of Joseph F.C. Rock Volume 6; Cho-ni to Radja [Ra-gya] and Jupar [Gyu-par], 1926 entitled ‘Diary of Joseph F. Rock, Director Arnold Arboretum Harvard Expedition, Vol. VI. Journey from Choni to Labrang and west to the Yellow River at Radja and beyond to the Amnyi Machen from April 23rd to August 20th 1926’ [see also Volume 20 - there are similar dates here]
Includes Rock’s hand drawn maps of the area and loose note

Diary of Joseph F.C. Rock; April to May 1926; May 1933 to March 1934.
Joseph Rock’s diary covering the dates 23 April 1926 – 22 May 1926; includes:

• Notes on ‘Amnyi Machen’ [Amnye Machen]; Story of Dzambala and Notes on tribes around Amnyi Machen. (pp.3-22)
• Followed by list of pictures sent to Washington (p.22); Notes on diaries mailed in March 1927 (p.23);
• Notes on Yunnan literature (p.24)
  1 May 1933 – 28 March 1934 (pp.25-279; includes:
• lists of books and articles relevant to Yunnan and China;
• List of books in the Library of Joseph F. Rock (pp.57-72)
• Trunks left in cold storage in Hong Kong (pp.132-133) and trunks to be taken along (p.134)
• Monday November 13th 1933: “Alone as usual… As I looked out over the grey smoky landscape I pitied the Chinese to be forced upon them by outsiders the chaotic artificial life of the west. My mind wandered to far away Nda za gko to the lovely alpine meadows on the Likiang Snow Range [Yulong Xue Shan] where reigns eternal peace. In spite of all the glitter and good food and comfort, etc on this boat it is all artificial. Here one looses [sic] contact with the great spirit of nature. I am longing for a quiet spot where I can stay with my Nakhi boys and live in peace, where I shall not have to move again except when the great day comes when I shall go to my eternal rest. When I behold the women on this ship, artificial, all flesh and no soul I shudder when I think what their life must be; a decorated painted shell ever moving but getting nowhere except farther away from what should be the real life of contemplation and unselfishness.” (pp.152-153)
• Meeting Handel-Mazzetti in Vienna and discussing the government and Sacher (pp.219-222)
• Transcription/translation of a Dongba book donated by Handel-Mazzetti to the Natural History Museum in Vienna (pp.235-239)
• Brief discussion of a Dongba book donated by Frank Kingdon Ward to the British Museum (pp.261-262)
• Meeting with Walter Rothschild, January 1934 (pp.273-278)
• Letter in Chinese script pasted into the diary on p.279: ‘Letter from Y…gning announcing the death of my good old friend the Tsong Kwan, a descendant of the great Kubilai Khan’ [Kublai Khan]
• Chinese script (pp.281-298)

Diary includes a loose photograph of the Watson family taken in 1947, and loose page of Chinese script.

Diary has a '35' on its spine.

Diary of Joseph F.C. Rock Volume 9 [10 on spine]; Yunnanfu to Mu-li, Konka-ling, 1927-1928 entitled Diary of Joseph F. Rock, Director National Geographic Society Expedition, Volume VIIII, IX, from Dec. 31st 1927 to June 17th 1928.
Contains loose notes/indices.