'Life Begins in Japan', by Ian Morrison, June 1938, together with related letter from Alastair Morrison, 18 January 1983

MLMSS 7821

fonds

1938, 1983

825725

0.15 metres of textual material (1 box)

Ian Morrison and Alastair Morrison are the sons of George Ernest Morrison, the first permament correspondent of The Times in Peking in 1897. After graduating from Cambridge, Ian was appointed English lecturer at Hokkaido University, Japan, 1935-1938. He wrote 'Life Begins in Japan', an unpublished account of his time there covering the period from August 1935 to August 1937. He was killed in 1953 reporting the Korean War for The Times. Alastair, a former Australian diplomat, compiled a memoir of his younger brother in a letter to his niece, Ian's daughter Petra, in 1983.

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Photocopy of corrected typescript of 'Life Begins in Japan', formerly titled 'An Englishman in Japan', June 1938, comb bound in 5 volumes.

Photocopy of typescript letter from Alastair Morrison to his niece Petra Morrison, 18 January 1983, 18 pages, including memoir of Ian Morrison and the Morrison family