WALEY, Arthur. Autograph manuscript translation of a Japanese calligraphic text [Wang Hsi-Chih’s Preface to the Poems Collected from the Orchid Pavilion], [c.1916], fair copy with a single marginal annotation, with Sydney Cockerell’s ownership note on final verso, WALEY’S EARLIEST KNOWN TRANSLATION, 2½ pages, folio (328 x 207mm), brass fastener; with four autograph letters signed (respectively: ‘Arthur D. Schloss’, ‘Arthur D. Waley’, and ‘Arthur Waley’ twice) to Cockerell, Kensington and the British Museum, 1912, 1916 [enclosing the present translation] and two from 1919, totalling 6 pages, 8vo.