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includes letters from:-
William Hopkyn Rees, Hsaio Chang [Siaochang/Xiaozhang], Tientsin [Tianjin] and Shanghai - balance sheet; plan of alteration to old premises; accounts; annual report; visit of Baptist deputation; money for food and clothes to victims of previous year's floods;
Joseph Stonehouse, Peking [Beijing] - birth of daughter; proposed boys school; rural work
Dr George Smith, Tientsin, Tatsukow (Mongolia) and on board steamship Caledonian - status of Mongolian mission; report on Ta Tsu Kou [Ta-tzu-kou] (Eastern Mongolia)
James Gilmour, Mongolia (include postcards) and Tientsin - differs from above letter on status of Mongolian mission; resolution that Dr George Smith's serve in Tientsin
Thomas Bryson, Peking - balance sheet; destitution of villages
Annie Pearson, Peking - annual report
George Owen, Peking - revision work on Mandarin translation of Bible
John Parker, Mongolia - mis-named 'Mongol Mission'; described escape from Chao Yang [Chaoyang, Liaoning province]
and reaching Tientsin; to marry Lily Ashburner
Samuel Meech, Peking (secretary) - committee resolutions; death of youngest child; death of James Gilmour; visit to Mongolia; report of committee on proposed sanatorium for missionaries; rising outside Peking
Catherine Winterbotham, Tientsin
Dr Frederick Roberts, Tientsin - refers to Conference of Medical Missionaries, Shanghai 1890
Dr Sewell McFarlane, Hsaio Chang [Siaochang/Xiaozhang] - persecution of Christians; a day's work in the hospital
Jonathan Lees, Tientsin - opposed to [Richard] Jenkins' employment; outline of adventures of John Parker and catechist Liu
joint letter of Jonathan Lees, Thomas Bryson and Dr Frederick Roberts opposing LMS appointing [Richard] Jenkins
Maria Morrison, Tientsin
Dr Edward Pritchard, Peking
Clara Goode, Adelaide and Peking - offer for service in China; arrival
Mrs Stonehouse [née Gertrude Randall], Colombo
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