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Needham/NRI2/SCC2/122/5 contains:
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2 Documents relating to a lecture by C. P. Fitzgerald entitled 'The Chinese Discovery of Australia?' given at the 23rd International Congress of Orientalists, 27 August 1954
3 Two letters from C. P. Fitzgerald of The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, about a photograph of a Taoist image found at Darwin
4 Notes by Cedric Dover in Brentford, Middlesex, about Chinese relations with Australia, and related notes by Joseph Needham
5 Joseph Needham's notes listing the dates of English and Portuguese expeditions to Australia
6 Joseph Needham's notes from Wei Chü-Hsien [??? / Wei Juxian], 'Chung-Kuo Jen Fa-Hsien Ao-Chou', [??????? / Zhong Guo Ren Fa Xian Ao Zhou], (Hong Kong, 1960)
7 Letter from David J. Peters of Oxford, about C. P. Fitzgerald's article entitled 'The Chinese Discovery of Australia?'
8 Letter from David J. Peters of Oxford, about a reference to a Chinese discovery of Australia in Prof. Robert Graves, 'The Isles of Unwisdom', (Cassell and Company, 1950), and resultant correspondence
9 Typed notes from J. V. Mills on 'Places visited by Chêng Ho [?? / Zheng He]' and the question of whether the Chinese visited Australia before the Dutch
10 Annotated typescript and manuscript draft notes from the section of the 'Nautical technology' chapter of 'Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 4, Part 3', entitled 'China and Australia'
11 Related notes and bibliographical references
12 Joseph Needham's original file title
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Title Letter from David J. Peters of Oxford, about a reference to a Chinese discovery of Australia in Prof. Robert Graves, 'The Isles of Unwisdom', (Cassell and Company, 1950), and resultant correspondence
Reference SCC2/122/5/8
Creator Peters, David, J.; Needham, Joseph; Graves, Robert; Marly, Diana de.
Covering Dates 16 June 1962–25 Nov. 1962
Extent and Medium 5 sheets; Paper
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The resultant correspondence comprises copy of Joseph Needham's letter of reply to Peters; copy of a letter from Graves to Diana de Marly of Oxford who further investigated the reference on behalf of Peters; letter from de Marly to Needham forwarding the copy of Graves' letter.

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Graves, Robert Ranke (1895-1985) poet and author
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