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includes letters from:-
Jonathan Lees, Tientsin [Tianjin] - minutes of Peking [Beijing] and Tientsin local committee, with building details and ground plan; comments advising against out-stations; converts and Sunday observance; separating baptism from church membership as understood by Congregationalists; accounts sent; specifies requirements for doctors wanted; tour with Alexander Williamson
Robert Thomas, Peking - work among Koreans in Peking; preaching station started in Chinese City; massacre of Catholic missionaries in Korea; going there on American ship
Joseph Edkins, Peking [Beijing] - converts; death of daughter; sent photographic negtives; wishes self-supporting girls'day-school; encouraging progress; proposed visit to Mongolian city, Kwei hwa Cheng; death of Robert Thomas; remarkable religious movement in two villages 120 miles South in Shantung [Shandong], went and baptised 15
Dr John Dudgeon, Peking - effect of hospital, government appreciative; death of Robert Thomas (LMS obliged to give it up), with report;found temple to be converted into chapel and hospital, enclosed sketch location plan of city centre
James Williamson, Tientsin - journey to Fang San Shien outstation 100 miles away; baptised his first convert
Alexander Williamson, Chefoo [Yantai]
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