Why Arthur Waley Resigned from the London Library in 1922?

Arthur Waley, the English orientalist and Sinologist who achieved both popular and scholarly acclaim for his translations of Chinese and Japanese poetry, hung out with the Bloomsbury Group, had a messy private life and worked at the British Museum with Laurence Binyon join the London Library in 27/10/21, the independent lending library in St James’s, established in 1841. The London Library recently made some of their archive records available online.

Waley was Assistant Keeper of Oriental Prints and Manuscripts at the British Museum at the time he joined on 27/10/21. However, he fairly swiftly resigned on 1/8/22 citing the introduction of earlier closing times. Another great mystery solved!!!