Research and Analysis of Historical Materials Related to the Former Nagasaki Foreign Settlement Contained in the Harold S. Williams Collection at the National Library of Australia.

本项目的目的是调查保存在澳大利亚国家图书馆的哈罗德·S·威廉姆斯藏品，找到与前长崎外国殖民地有关的材料，并对这些资料进行分析和整理，以便在相关研究项目中检索和使用。为此，调查人员于2006财年前往澳大利亚堪培拉的澳大利亚国家图书馆，花了几天时间浏览哈罗德·S·威廉姆斯藏品。2007财年，我们前往英国，在英国国家档案馆和大英图书馆继续进行上述研究。后一项调查的结果如下：1)在国家档案馆，我们调查了前长崎英国领事馆的档案，特别是领事馆给英国驻东京公使(后任大使)的信件、报告和其他信件(FO 262)，我们用数码相机拍摄了1200多张与前长崎外国定居点有关的文件等照片。2)在大英图书馆，我们调查并列出了保存在那里的哈罗德·S·威廉姆斯的作品。我们还找到了威廉姆斯在其中一份文件中提到的英文报纸《长崎航运名录》(出版于1869年11月至1970年12月)，并获得了一份缩微胶片。这份报纸在长崎以前从未见过，它将为这段地方历史提供新的线索。我们相信，在上述项目过程中积累的材料将推动对前长崎外国殖民地历史、文化和人文方面的研究，并为利用这些信息保护相关的建筑和文化遗产，振兴长崎的旅游业和地方经济提供基础。

The purpose of the present project was to investigate the Harold S. Williams Collection preserved at the National Library of Australia, to locate materials related to the former Nagasaki Foreign Settlement, and to analyze and organize these for easy retrieval and use in related research projects.To this end, the investigators traveled to the National Library of Australia in Canberra, Australia in FY2006 and spent several days looking through the Harold S. Williams Collection As a result, we made photographic copies of more than 500 documents, photographs, drawings and other materials in the collection. In FY2007, we traveled to the UK to continue the above research at the National Archives of the United Kingdom as well as the British Library. The results of the latter investigation can be outlined as follows:1) At the National Archives, we investigated the archives of the former Nagasaki British Consulate, particularly the letters, reports and other dispatches from the consulate to the British Minister (later Ambassador) in Tokyo (FO 262), and we took more than 1, 200 photographs (by digital camera) of documents, etc. related to the former Nagasaki Foreign Settlement. 2) At the British library, we investigated and listed the works of Harold S. Williams preserved there. We also located the English-language newspaper 'The Nagasaki Shipping List (published from November 1869 to December 1970) mentioned by Williams in one of his documents and we obtained a microfilm copy. This newspaper has never been seen before in Nagasaki and will shed new light on this period of local history.We are confident that the materials accumulated in the process of the above project will add impetus to studies on the history, culture and human aspect of the former Nagasaki Foreign Settlement and provide a basis for the use of this information in preserving the related architectural and cultural legacy and in revitalizing the tourism industry and local economy of Nagasaki.