在接触《小莽苍苍斋藏清代学者书札》的选题前,我对于古人信札收藏者的印象,多半是遗老遗少,难以与一位曾在中央领导身边任要职的政治人物联系起来。直到2012年新春,在国家清史办,这部书稿的两位编撰者曾自和陈烈将厚厚的书札释文原稿交给我,我才开始走近“小莽苍苍斋”斋主田家英和他的收 Before I came across the topic of “Small Mangs and White Cangzang Qing Scholars”, most of my thoughts on the collectors of ancient ancestral letters were mostly old-age ones and were difficult to relate to a political figure who had held positions of office in the Central Government. Until the spring of 2012, at the State Qing History Office, the two compilers of this manuscript were handed over to me by Chen Lie and his thick book, and I began to approach. “Little Mang” Britain and his income