Greeting card of Édouard Chavannes to Aurel Stein, August 30, 1907 (Cat. Stein LHAS 2/fol. 210)
Édouard Chavannes (1865-1918), Sinologist professor of the Sorbonne took part in the scholarly interpretation of the Chinese findings, and composed the catalog of the Chinese woodslips collected at the Dunhuang border wall. Stein dedicated his book Serindia to his memory.