Uncollected Journals

These Japan Journals—plus their appendices, Excluded Pages, Vita Sexualis, and The Persian Journals—are the only edited journals of Donald Richie, but there are many journal collections. Below is a listing, with some indication of mss. and contents. They are in the Donald Richie Archives, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University, 771 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. 02215

A. 1943–44: paperbound booklet containing mainly thoughts, handwritten.

B. 1945: journal, full-year, wartime travels, bound, leather diary, handwritten.

C. 1945–46: black leather-bound notebook, containing mainly thoughts, dated, handwritten.

D. 1946: paperbound booklet, journal, 1 January–24 March, dated, handwritten.

E. 1953: loose sheets, held by clip, unpaginated, a collection of remembered vignettes from the late 1920s to 1953, titled “A Work in Progress,” typed ms.

F. Blue folder containing uncollected travel diaries from 1955 to 1965, typed ms.

G. 1960: brown cloth notebook, mainly travels, handwritten.

H. 1962: two red spiral notebooks containing all the notes that eventually became The Inland Sea, handwritten.

I. 1963-64: loose sheets, held by clip, unpaginated, notes to analyst, plus “A Report on Transcopal,” typed.

J. 1967: olive cloth-bound notebook containing notes on travels in India, handwritten.

K. New York Journals. 1950–52, computerized print-out, manila envelope.

L. The Persian Journals. 1992–96, computerized print-out, manila envelope.

M. Japan Journals, 1947-96, earlier incomplete version, computerized print-out, manila envelope.

N. Japan Journals, 1947–2004, the complete edited journals, some 1,000 pages.

O. There is also a pseudo-journal, a “novel” called Seventh Voyage, written 1945–46, paper binder, typewritten. There was another journal-novel called Fifth Voyage, which appears to be lost.