COLLECTING AND FILING OF IDA PRUITT PAPERS

ida Pruitt在Marjorie King博士去世后，她的论文一直保存在她的家中，并将捐赠给哈佛大学拉德克利夫学院亚瑟和伊丽莎白施莱辛格美国女性历史图书馆。金博士让我在文件上交前帮她整理并重新归档。后来，我在那里找到了普鲁伊特和老舍之间的一些通信，从中可以看出他们是如何在1946年至1949年期间在美国合作翻译《黄风》的。1999年2月，在北京举行的老舍诞辰一百周年纪念会议上，我已经介绍了这些通信和他们合作翻译《黄风》的情况。我还在《IP Papers》里找到了一堆草稿，后来写成了《中国的童年》和《汉的女儿》。苏厄德撰写并归档的《知识产权文件》中的其他草稿和剪报，对于研究帝国后期和革命前美国在华使命的人来说，是非常宝贵的资料。金博士给了我正确的指导，并总是通过它给我一些提示。1999年为艾达·普鲁特（Ida Pruitt）在中国进行研究，并在北京大学、山东神学院、山东博物馆、上海基督教图书馆等地收集和阅读档案。大部分时间都花在寻找档案上，主要是在20世纪20-30年代。那段时间，我为老舍在早稻田大学学习的年会做了一份Ida Pruitt和老舍的报告。由于研究Ida Pruitt在帝国晚期和中国和美国革命前的第一步已经基本完成，我打算把这些档案和材料放在一起，完全重建它。

1998Ida Pruitt Papers have been kept in Dr Marjorie King's house after her death, and would be donated to Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library for History of Women in America, Radcliff College, Harvard University. I was asked by Dr King to support her arrange and re-file those papers before they were handed over. Then I found some correspondence between Ida Pruitt and Lao She there, which could figure out how they proceeded the translation of The Yellow Storm in co-operation in a duration of 1946-49 in the U.S.A.I already have introduced those correspondence and their collaboration on the translation into English on the meeting for the centenary of the birth of Lao She, Beijing, February 1999. I also found a pile of draft in IP Papers, which were finished as A China Childhood and A Daughter of Han afterward. The other drafts and clippings in IP Papers which Anna Seward wrote and filed are very precious materials for one who study the American missions in China in late empire and before the revolution. Dr King has directed me rightly and always gave me some hints through it.1999I proceeded the research for Ida Pruitt in China and took more time on collecting and reading archive at PUMC, The theological school of Shan Dong, Shan Dong Museum, Christian Library of Shanghai and so forth. Most of time was spent on looking for archive mainly in 1920-30's. During those days I made a report of Ida Pruitt and Lao She on the annual meeting for Lao She's study in Waseda University. As the first step to study Ida Pruitt in late empire and before the revolution both in China and USA has almost finished, I am planning to put those arichive and materials together and should reconstruct it totally.