Letters and Communications

 

March-April, 1895      Communication with Chen Yan 陳衍, Zhuo Xiaofu 卓孝複, Gao Fengqi 高鳳岐 against the territorial division resulting from the peace conference (Liaotung Convention) that preceded the Treaty of Shimonoseki.

April-May, 1898         Letter with Gao Fengqi and Bo Fu 伯茀 presented to the imperial censor against the Jiaozhou Bay 膠州灣 transfer to Germany.

Nov. 10, 1898-Jan 4, 1899     Correspondence with Zheng Xiaoxu 鄭孝胥

April 10-11, 1899       Correspondence with Zheng Xiaoxu

May, 8-15, 1899         Letter to Zhu Kangnian 注康年 about his translation Chahua nü 茶花女

May 13, 1899             Letter to Gao Fengqi about Chahua nü 茶花女

June 17-July 3, 1899  Correspondence with Zheng Xiaoxu

July 11-13, 1900         Correspondence with Zheng Xiaoxu

December 19, 1900    Correspondence with Zheng Xiaoxu

March 6, 1901            Correspondence with Zheng Xiaoxu

October 4, 1901          Correspondence with Cai Yuanpei 蔡元培 and Chen Baochen 陳寶琛

Autumn, 1901             Correspondence with Xie Zhangding 謝章鋌

Late Nov., 1902         Letter to Yan Fu 嚴復 about his translation Minzhongxue 民種學

November, 1904         Correspondence with Yan Fu

May, 1905                  Letter to Zeng Shaoqing 曾少卿 against the Sino-American Treaty of Sino-US Chinese Laborers.

Late 1907                   Letter to Mao Heting 冒鶴亭

March 15, 1909          Letter of Yan Fu to Lin Shu

September, 1910        Letter to Gao Erqian 高而謙

September 15, 1910   Letter fromZheng Xiaoxu

November, 1911        Three letters to Wu Shefen 吳畬芬

February, 1912           讀廿五日遜位詔書

April, 1912                 Letter to Wu Jingchen 吳敬宸

July 3, 1914                Letter from Zheng Xiaoxu

January 8, 1915          Letter to Zheng Xiaoxu

July 1, 1916                Letter to Zheng Xiaoxu

July 13-20, 1916         Correspondence with Zheng Xiaoxu regarding 段祺瑞.

1916                            Letter to Gao Mengdan 高夢旦about his translation wage

Late summer, 1917     Letter to Jin Liang 金梁

March 6-7, 1918         Correspondence with Zheng Xiaoxu

April-May, 1918         上眾參兩議院議員書

After October, 1918   與本社社長論講義書

再與本社社長論講義書(《文學講義》)

1918                            Letter to Chen Yan

March 18-24, 1919    Correspondence with Cai Yuanpei: 林琴南致蔡鶴卿書, 致<公言報>函並答林琴南君函, 林琴南再答蔡鶴卿書

April 5, 1919              林琴南先生致包世杰先生書(《新申報》)

April 13, 1919            Letter from Luo Qiuxin 羅秋心 about the controversy with Cai Yuanpei

April, 1919                 與林畏廬書(Letter from Qi Baishi 齊白石).

September 27, 1919   Letter to the government on behalf of Pu Yi 溥儀

Dec. 10 and 13, 1919 Correspondence with Zhang Yuanji 張元濟

December 15, 1919    林琴南為閩事諸同志書(《公言報》)

December 29, 1919    Correspondence with Zhang Yuanji

February 23, 1920      Correspondence with Zhang Yuanji

Spring, 1921               Letter of Gao Mengdan regarding the possible employment of Hu Shi 胡適 by Shangwu yinshu guan 商務印書館

July 22-Aug. 6, 1921  Correspondence with Zheng Xiaoxu

June, 1922                  康南海林琴南尺牘(includes 8 letters: 答某公書, 答周生書, 與魏季渚太守書, 出都與某侍郎御書, 上郭春榆侍郎辭特科不赴書, 與國學扶輪社諸君書, 與姚叔節書, 示兒書)

1922                            答鄭孝胥書

September 19, 1924    Letter from GaoMengdan, Jiang Boxun 江伯訓 and Li Xuangong  李宣龔.

November 10, 1924    Letter published in Xiaoshuo yuebao 小說月報 15/11

Undated                      林樊兩家尺牘4 letters,stored at Nankai University Library)

  • 畏廬尺牘(Ed. by Hu Erying 胡爾瑛, Library of Fujian 福建省圖書館).
  • Four letters collected in Lin Lie 林列, “Lin Qinnan shuxin (4 feng)” 林琴南書信(4封), Wenxian 文獻, 4 (1980), 123-126: 與林竹坪二封, 與林述庵, 與琮子.
  • A collection of letters published in Lin Weilu chidu 林畏廬尺牘 (Taiwan, 1983).
  • Other letters have been collected in Li Jiayi 李家驥Lin Shu shiwen xuan 林紓詩文選》, Shangwu yinshuguan 商務印書館, Beijing, 1993. This book is highly unreliable because the transcriptions of the letters (in simplified Chinese) have an important number of errors. Letters from Lin Shu to Chen Qi 陳器, his co-translator of Shengu meiren 深谷美人, are quoted in César Guarde (古二德), “’Shengu meiren’ hanjian Lin yi yu ‘Konggu jiaren’ yizhe kaobian”《深谷美人》罕見林譯與《空谷佳人》譯者考辨, Shinmatsu shōsetsu kara 清末小說から 117 (April, 2015), 14-21, where misprints have been corrected.

 

 Other works

Unconfirmed unpublished translations
洞宣續記
小白菊
Unconfirmed unpublished non-literary translations
世界史
Unconfirmed varia 

甲寅題畫本(二冊)
題畫偶存(一冊)
畏廬雜著(一冊)
庚申尺牘稿(一冊)
辛丑尺牘稿(一冊)
讀書備遺錄(一冊)
春覺齋聯句偶存(一冊)
論文要言(一冊)
零鴛詞序, 燈昏鏡曉詞跋, 徐又靜填詞圖記(included in 《冷紅齋詞剩》)
西湖詩集
蠡叟叢談
存晦此登臨樓筆記

 

Other unconfirmed works

1891                         福州支社詩拾·
1892                            重修明志書院碑
1893.3.3                      健公先生詩影··印章
1894.9                         甲午海戰覆盆錄
Spring, 1895               偶齋詩草·
1895.5                         周辛仲廣文遺詩·
1898.8.30                    七月十四日夜泛舟邱家園記
1899.3                         乙亥春月書
少棠先生正之
畏廬(inscription on a lens
Summer, 1900             林啓誄文(名不詳)
林太守事略
像贊
1902                            Prologue to 露輸格蘭小傳
1904                            買陂塘·足本迦茵小傳題詞並序
1906                            蠻荒志異·
1907.7.21                    畫微
1909.7                         林崧祁《林先生述庵遺詩·序》
1909.10-11                  秋山古寺
1910.2                         記梅陽歸養圖
1911                            秘魔岩見寶竹師題壁詩愴然有作
1911.12.6                    辛亥十月十六日感事
1912.11.6                    題表忠館(in 《平報》)
1913.5.15                    介紹良醫(in 《平報》)
1913.5.25-26              劍腥錄序(in 《平報》)
1913.5.27                    石求石己先生畫梅潤格(in 《平報》)
1913.5.28                    介紹名畫(in 《平報》)
1913.8.12                    哀黨人(踐卓翁短篇小說,in 《平報》)
1913.11.15                  贈桐城馬伯通先生序(in 刊於《庸言》1/24
1914.6-7                     濠梁觀魚圖跋
1914.11-12                 林紓序畫記詩(in 《冒氏潛徽錄》(also titled  重輯如皋冒氏先生潛徽錄)
1915.7                         Prologue to 女博士
1916.9.10                    諸家評點古文辭類纂序(in 《東方雜誌》13/9
1916.11.4                    德宗景皇帝本紀
1916.11.10                  汪穰卿先生墓志銘(in 《東方雜誌》11/11,
1916.12                       寶井堂記(in 《小說月報》7/12
1917.1.1                     汪穰卿先生墓志銘(in 《中國實業雜誌》8/1?
1918                            古文辭類類纂選本序
1919.1.7                      氏建立太師公廟記(in 《公言報》)
 1919.1                         異僧還貞記(in 《文學雜誌》1
1919.2.12                    正志中學同學錄序(in 《公言報》)
Spring, 1919               金山奉母圖寫寄冒鶴亭
1919.4.22                    鄭蘇堪六十壽文
1919.4                         Article about Qi Baishi 齊白石’s paintingsin 《平報》)
1919.4.13                    贈胡鄂公序(in 《公言報》)
1919.10-11                 訓子節
1921.2                         滄海遺民賸稿跋
1921.7                         壽陳璧七十序
1922.4.1                      唐景(in 《禮拜六》155
1922.4.15                    得齊小傳(in 《禮拜六》157
1922.4.20                    長福(in 《禮拜六》158
1922.4.29                    記甲申馬江基隆之敗(in 《禮拜六》159
1922.12.2                    畏廬痴語序(in 《國際公報》1/1
1922.12.16                  克已篇(in 《國際公報》1/3
1923.1.27                    尚恥篇(in 《國際公報》1/9
1923.2.3                      主信篇(in 《國際公報》1/10
1923.10.16                  近三十年學術史
1924.2.4                      癸亥除夕述懷示同舍諸生
1924.4                         壽簉室楊宜人五十初度(in 《貞文先生年譜》)
1924.4-5                     留芳記·弁序
1924.6.20                    史記·魏其武安侯列傳(孔教大學一課)
1924.9.5                      遺訓十事(only seven extant
Posthumous, 1924      文微

Undated items:

酬台灣王隱君友竹見贈長句(in 《滄海遺民賸稿》)
長女林雪墓志銘
寄石遺福州
贈高夢旦·
林述庵哀辭
螺江太保七十壽文(in 《文學講義》)