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In 1867, Legge returned to Dollar in Clackmannanshire, Scotland, where he invited Wang Tao to join him, and received his LLD from the University of Aberdeen in 1870.

While in Scotland, he also revisited his native burgh, Huntly, accompanied by Wang Tao.

He then returned to Hong Kong as pastor at Union Church from 1870 to 1873.

He took a long trip to North China, beginning 2 April 1873 in Shanghai, arriving at Tianjin by boat, then travelling by mule cart and arriving in Peking on 16 April 1873, where he stayed at the London Missionary Society headquarters.

He visited the Great Wall, Ming Tombs and the Temple of Heaven, where he felt compelled to take off his shoes with holy awe.

He left Peking, accompanied by Joseph Edkins, and headed for Shandong by mule cart to visit Jinan, Taishan, where they ascended the sacred Mount Tai, carried by four men on chairs.

Leaving Mount Tai on May 15, they visited Confucius Temple and the Forest of Confucius at Qufu, where he climbed to the top of the Confucius ' burial mound.

Legge returned to Shanghai by way of the Grand Canal, and thence to England via Japan and the USA in 1873.

In 1875 he was named Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford and in 1876 assumed the new Chair of Chinese Language and Literature at Oxford, where he attracted few students to his lectures but worked hard for some 20 years in his study at 3 Keble Terrace, on his translations of the Chinese classics.

According to an anonymous contemporary obituary in the Pall Mall Gazette, Legge was in his study every morning at three o ' clock, winter and summer, having retired to bed at ten.

When he got up in the morning the first thing he did was to make himself a cup of tea over a spirit-lamp.

Then he worked away at his translations while all the household slept.