This is not primarily an archival study. I have, however, consulted a number of British manuscript collections of which the private papers are set out briefly below.
THE BRITISH LIBRARY, LONDON
Sir Charles Stewart Scott, ambassador to Russia, 1898-1904 (Ass. MSS 52,294-52,310).
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
Sir Ernest Mason Satow, minister to Japan, 1895-1900, and to China, 1900-6 (Gifts and Deposits 30/33).
Sir John Newell Jordon, consul-general, 1896-1901, and minister to Korea, 1901-6 (FO 350).
Sir E. Grey, Lord Lansdowne, F. H. Villiers, C. Hardinge, C. Spring-Rice (FO 800).
LIBRARY OF THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES, LONDON
Chinese Maritime Customs, especially papers of Cecil Arthur Verner Bowra. Sir Mortimer Durand, ambassador to the United States, 1903-7 (MS 257,247).
CHURCHILL COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
(Sir) Cecil Spring-Rice, charge d'affaires at embassy to Russia, various times, 1900-5.
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, CAMBRIDGE
(Sir) Charles Hardinge, secretary to embassy, 1898-1903, and ambassador to Russia, 1904-6 (HP 3-8).
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO LIBRARY, TORONTO, CANADA
(Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library)
John Otway Percy Bland, secretary of Municipal Council, International Settlement, Shanghai, correspondent of The Times in China.
MITCHELL LIBRARY, SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES
Dr George Ernest Morrison, correspondent of The Times in Peking, 1897-1912.
HOUGHTON LIBRARY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
William Woodville Rockhill, delegate to Peking Conference, 1900-1, and minister to China, 1905-9.
STERLING LIBRARY, YALE UNIVERSITY
Anson Phelps Stokes, of the Committee on Japanese Peace Plans, 1904-5, and correspondent of Asakawa Kanichi. Yale University archives, on doctorate for Itō Hirobumi, 1901.
BRITISH LIBRARY OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
Alfred Edward Hippisley, Chinese Maritime Customs, collection of books.
Dmitrii I. Abrikosov, Revelations of a Russian Diplomat, Seattle 1964.
Alexander (Grand Duke), Once a Grand Duke. New York 1932.
Christopher Andrew, Theophile Delcassé and the Entente Cordiale. London 1966.
Albert d'Anethan, The d'Anethan Dispatches from Japan, 1894-1910 (G. A. Lensen, ed.). Tokyo 1967.
d'Anethan (Baroness), Fourteen Years of Diplomatic Life in Japan: Leaves from the Diary of Baroness Albert D'Anethan. London 1912.
Asakawa Kanichi, The Russo-Japanese Conflict: Its Causes and Issues. Boston 1904.
Erwin Baelz, Awakening Japan: Diary of a German Doctor. New York 1932.
Nobuya Bamba and John F. Howes, Pacifism in Japan. Kyoto 1978.
John Barber, Soviet Historians in Crisis, 1928-32. London 1981.
Constantine A. Benckendorff, Half a Life: Reminiscences of a Russian Gentleman. London 1955
Torsten Burgman, Svensk Opinion och Diplomatii under Rysk-Japanska Kriget, 1904-5. Uppsala 1966.
Cambridge History of China, vol. 10, 1800-1911, parts 1 and 2 (J. K. Fairbank and D. Twitchett, eds).
Paul H. Clyde, International Rivalries in Manchuria, 1689-1922. Columbus 1928.
D. N. Collins, 'Franco-Russian alliance and Russian railways, 1891-1914' in Historical Journal, 16 (1973), 777-88.
Hilary Conroy, The Japanese Seizure of Korea, 1868-1910. Philadelphia 1960.
Olga Crisp, 'The Russo-Chinese Bank: an episode in Franco-Russian relations' in Slavonic and East European Review, 52 (1974), 197-212.
Olga Crisp, Studies in the Russian Economy before 1914. London 1976.
John D. Crump, The Origins of Socialist Thought in Japan, London 1983.
David Dallin, Rise of Russia in Asia. New York 1950.
A. I. Dmitriev-Mamonov and A. F. Zdziarskii (eds), Guide to the Great Siberian Railway. St Petersburg 1900.
J. M. Dorwart. The Pigtail War: American Involvement in the Sino-Japanese War, 1894-5. Amherst 1975.
Charles Drage, Servants of the Dragon Throne. London 1966.
Mark Elvin, 'Mandarins and Millenarians: reflections on the Boxer Uprising of 1899-1900' in Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, 10 (1979), 115-38.
J. K. Fairbank, K. F. Bruner and E. M. Matheson (eds), The I. G. in Peking: Letters of Robert Hart, Chinese Maritime Customs, 1868-1907 (2 vols). Cambridge, Mass. 1975.
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Dietrich Geyer, Der russische Imperialisms, 1860-1914. Göttingen 1977.
David Gillard, The Struggle for Asia, 1828-1914: A Study in British and Russian Imperialism. London 1975.
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Lloyd Griscom, Diplomatically Speaking. London 1941.
Stephen Gwynn (ed.), The Letters and Friendships of Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, 2 vols. Boston 1929.
Roger Hackett, Yamagata Aritomo in the Rise of Modern Japan, 1838-1922. Cambridge, Mass. 1970.
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Fred Harrington, God, Mammon and the Japanese: Dr Allen and Korean-American Relations, 1884-1905. Madison, 1944.
Seiji Hishida, The International Position of Japan as a Great Power. New York 1905.
Alexander Hosie, Manchuria: Its People, Resources and Recent History. London 1904.
Michael H. Hunt, Frontier Defence and the Open Door: Manchuria in Chinese-American Relations, 1895-1911. New Haven 1973.
Michael H. Hunt, 'The forgotten occupation: Peking, 1900-1' in Pacific Historical Review, 48 (1979), 501-29.
Michael H. Hunt, The Making of a Special Relationship: The United States and China to 1914. New York 1983.
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Akira Iriye, Pacific Estrangement: Japanese and American Expansion, 1897-1911. Cambridge, Mass. 1972.
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Marius Jansen, 'Konoe Atsumaro' in A. Iriye (ed.), The Chinese and the Japanese. Princeton 1980.
Japan, Correspondence Regarding the Negotiations between Japan and Russia (1903-4), presented to the Imperial Diet, March 1904.
Geoffrey Jones and G. Gerenstain (eds), Foreign Capital in Russia by P. V. Ol'. New York 1983.
Kajima Morinosuke, The Diplomacy of Japan, 1894-1922, 3 vols. Tokyo 1976-8.
Kambe Masao, Der russisch-japanische Krieg und die japanische Volkswirtschaft. Lipzig 1906.
George Katkov et al. (eds), Russia Enters the Twentieth Century 1894-1917. London 1971.
E. G. Kemp, The Face of Manchuria, Korea and Russian Turkestan. London 1910.
E. S. Kirby, Russian Studies on Japan. London 1980.
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A. N. Kuropatkin, The Russian Army and the Japanese War, 2 vols. London 1909.
William L. Langer, 'The origins of the Russo-Japanese War' in C. E. and E. Schorske (eds), Explorations in Crisis: Papers on International History, Cambridge, Mass., 1969, 3-45.
Theodore H. von Laue, Sergei Witte and the Industrialization of Russia. New York 1963.
George A. Lensen, The Russo-Chinese War. Tallahassee, 1967.
George A. Lensen, Balance of Intrigue: International Rivalry in Korea and Manchuria, 1884-99, 2 vols. Tallahassee, 1982.
Dominic C. B. Lieven, Russia and the Origins of the First World War. London 1983.
Lo Hui-min (ed.), The Correspondence of G. E. Morrison, 2 vols. Cambridge 1976.
Andrew Malozemoff, Russian Far Eastern Policy, 1881-1904. Berkeley 1958.
Miyazaki Tōten, My 33 Years' Dream (Etō Shinkichi and Marius Jansen, eds). Princeton 1982.
Mutsu Munemitsu, Kenkenroku: A Diplomatic Record of the Sino-Japanese War, 1894-5 (G. M. Berger, ed.). Tokyo 1982.
Ian Nish, 'Japan and China: the case of Weihaiwei, 1894-1906' in Bulletin of Fukuoka UNESCO Association (1973), 29-35.
Ian Nish, 'The three-power intervention of 1895' in A. R. Davis and A. D. Stefanowska (eds), Austrina, Sydney, 1982, 204-25.
Ian Nish, 'Naval aspects of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance' in (Keio) Hōgaku Kenkyū (1983).
Ian Nish, 'Britain and the three-power intervention, 1895' in John Chapman (ed.). Proceedings of the British Association for Japanese Studies, 1980, 12-26.
Ian Nish, 'Itō in St Petersburg, 1901' in G. Daniels (ed.), Europe Interprets Japan, Tenterden, Kent 1984, pp. 90-5.
Ian Nish, 'Japanese intelligence at the time of the Russo-Japanese War' in C. Andrew and D. N. Dilks (eds), The Missing Dimension. London 1984.
Ian Nish, The Anglo-Japanese Alliance: A Study of Two Island Empires. London 1966.
Nobori Shomu and Akamatsu Katsumaro, The Russian Impact on Japan: Literature and Social Thought. Los Angeles 1981.
F. G. Notehelfer, Kōtoku Shūsui: Portrait of a Radical. Cambridge 1971.
Okamoto Shumpei, 'A phase of Meiji Japan's attitude toward China: the case of Komura Jūtarō' in Modern Asian Studies, 13 (1979), 431-59.
Okamoto Shumpei, The Japanese Oligarchy and the Russo-Japanese War. New York 1970.
W. J. Oudendyk, Ways and By-ways in Diplomacy. London 1939.
Paul Pelliot, Carnets de Pékin, 1899-1901. Paris 1977.
R. Pipes, Russia under the Old Regime. London 1974.
Don C. Price, Russia and the Roots of the Chinese Revolution, 1896-1911. Cambridge, Mass. 1974.
Rosemary K. I. Quested, The Russo-Chinese Bank: a Multi-national Financial Base of Tsarism in China. Birmingham 1977.
Rosemary K. I. Quested, 'An introduction to the enigmatic career of Chou Mien' in Journal of Oriental Studies, Hong Kong, 16 (1978), 39-48.
Rosemary, K. I. Quested, 'A fresh look at the Sino-Russian conflict of 1900 in Manchuria' in Journal of the Institute of Chinese Studies, Chinese University, Hong Kong, 8 (1978), 159-91.
Rosemary, K. I. Quested, Matey Imperialists?: The Tsarist Russians in Manchuria 1895-1917. Hong Kong 1982.
Hans Rogger, Russia in the Age of Modernization and Revolution, 1881-1917. London 1983.
Boris A. Romanov, Russia in Manchuria, 1892-1906 (trans. Susan Jones). Ann Arbor 1952.
Roman R. Rosen, Forty Years of Diplomacy, 2 vols. London 1922.
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