North China,1897

includes letters from:- Thomas Howard Smith, Peking [Beijing] Samuel Meech, Peking - Speech Day at boys boarding school Dr Arthur Peill, Hsiao Chang [Siaochang/Xiaozhang] Charlotte Kerr, Yensan David Murray, Yensan John Parker, Chaoyang and Chi Chou - paper 'Six years after Gilmour' Alexander King (...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/North China/Incoming correspondence/Box 10
Date(s) of creation: 13 Jan - 30 Dec 1897
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: CWM/LMS/North China/Incoming correspondence/Box 10
Summary: includes letters from:- Thomas Howard Smith, Peking [Beijing] Samuel Meech, Peking - Speech Day at boys boarding school Dr Arthur Peill, Hsiao Chang [Siaochang/Xiaozhang] Charlotte Kerr, Yensan David Murray, Yensan John Parker, Chaoyang and Chi Chou - paper 'Six years after Gilmour' Alexander King (secretary), Tientsin [Tianjin] - resolutions requesting grant for East City premises for women's work; district committee minutes; pay and conditions for mission employees Dr Thomas Cochrane, Shanghai, Tientsin and Chao Yang - plans of building needed at Tientsin Georgina Smith, Peking Dr George Smith, Peking - printed hospital report; request for teacher for Peking Polytechnic Club William Hopkyn Rees, Hsaio Chang - unrest owing to false rumours re Tientsin kidnappings brought work to standstill; viceroy to visit; supports taking over Albert Bridge and his station, 70 miles distant, with diagram Dr Lillie Saville, Peking Joseph Stonehouse, Peking Samuel Hart, Tientsin -need to pull down and rebuild Tientsin city chapel; re building 'Walford Hart Memorial College' with rough sketch of future Anglo-Chinese college Mrs Thomas Bryson [née Mary Carruthers], Tientsin - article on troubles in Tientsin, viceroy vindicates missionaries from complicity in kidnapping John Allardyce, Peking Jonathan Lees (treasurer), Tientsin Alice Esam, on board steamship Formosa and from Yensan
Extent: 59 items
Access status: Open
Language: English
File number: Folders 3 and 4
Finding aids: A detailed list of Incoming Correspondence for North China, 1860-1898 (list G4), is available for consultation in the Special Collections Reading Room, SOAS Library.
Format: Archive