杨泗孙致翁同爵翁同龢兄弟信札八通考释

A Textual Research on Yang Sisun’s 8 Letters to the Weng Tongjue and Weng Tonghe Brothers

故宫博物院藏有杨泗孙致翁同爵与翁同龢兄弟信札8通,此前从未对外刊布。这些信札作于咸丰三年至四年(1853-1854),写于杨泗孙从京城返回常熟的途中,或是回到常熟之后。这些信札为我们了解咸丰初年常熟籍京官的一般情况,了解从通州到江南运河沿途的情况,了解太平军占据南京之后以常熟为代表的江南地区社会的基本变化,都有一定的价值。

The Palace Museum is in prize possession of eight letters written by Yang Sisun to the Weng Tongjue and Weng Tonghe brothers.While never lent to public light before,these letters,written either on or after Yang Sisun’s journey from Beijing to Changshu,his hometown,between 1853 and 1854,are lendable of a trifold insight:the life of Changshu-born officials in Beijing in the early 1850s,the situation along the way from Tongzhou to the Jiangnan Canal,and some of the social transformations in the Jiangnan area represented by Changshu in the aftermath of the Taiping occupation of Nanjing.