The History of the Václav Stejskal Collection // Table of Contents // I. // Introduction ... 6 // II. // The Primary and Secondary Sources ... 9 // III. // 1. “With Everyone, I Acted Honestly”: Stejskal’s (Auto)Biographies... 11 // 2. “Thorough, Loyal, Good-hearted”: Stejskal and his Friends ... 13 // 3. “Without Influential Friends or Others’ Help”: Early Years ... 14 // 4. “A Direction for My Life”: the Years with the Navy ... 16 // 5. “Impressions of Which One Could Hardly Dream”: Journey to Asia ... 17 // 6. “Praise the Sea and Hold to the Land!”: Stejskaľs Travel Diary ... 24 // 7. “Counsellor at the Vienna Court of Accounts”: A Respected Man in Middle Age ... 39 // IV. // 1. “A Treasure in the Brdy Forests”: The Collection under Stejskal’s Ownership ... 42 // 2. “The Flourishing of this Museum of Ours”: Transfer of the Collections // to the National Museum ... 46 // 3. The “Danaian Gift”: The Further Fate of the Stejskal Collection... 47 // V. // 1. “Everything Curious in the Exotic World”: Souvenir or Ethnographic Material? ... 50 // 2. “These Items of Great Meaning for Me”: The Original Form of the Collection ... 53 // 3. “In Foochow I Purchased Four Tea-plants”: The Objects from China... 56 // 4. The Donation from 1888 ... 62 // 5. The Transfer from 1934 ... 65 // 6. The Register from 1940 ... 65 // VI. // Conclusion... 80 // VII. // Appendices // 1. The Stejskal collection and villa as a legacy to the National
Museum // and the associated correspondence ... 82 // 2. “A Recollection of Václav Stejskal”... 93 // 3. Notes regarding the purchase of collection objects according to Stejskal’s // diary from the voyage of the Aurora to Asia ... 98 // VIII. // Bibliography ... 101 // IX. // The Objects from China: The Catalogue... 106 // - 4