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includes letters from:-
Dr George Smith, Peking [Beijing] - circular letter to friends, detailing work; director of naval college Yen fuh Tao Tai, encloses letters from him; evangelistic meetings at college; prison visit
Samuel Hart, Tientsin - plan for a museum; resolution passed at Pei-Tai-Ho [Beidaihe] conference (August 1898) re meeting needs for Western education
Dr Thomas Cochrane, Chao Yang [Chaoyang]
Alexander King (secretary), Tientsin [Tianjin] - resolutions re building needed at Hsiao Chang [Siaochang/Xiaozhang], pundit allowance, moving Yensan mission to Tsangchow [Cangzhou]; district committee minutes;
John Parker, Chaoyang
David Murray, Yensan - middle schools to be started; discusses moving Yensan mission to Tsangchow [Cangzhou]
William Hopkyn Rees, Hsaio Chang - re resolutions on country work between Tientsin and Siaochang
Dr Sewell McFarlane, on board steamship Ophir, Adelaide and Strathfield (New South Wales)
Dr Eliot Curwen, on board steamship Sunda and from Peking - locum work at Legation; plan of hospital and new property
Joseph Stonehouse, Peking - work at Tungan; thanks for grant to dispensers Li and Liu, letter of thanks from Mr Li (Chinese, with translation)
Mary Moreton, Peking
L [Mary Elizabeth] Roberts, Chi Chou
Charlotte Kerr, Tientsin
Samuel Meech, Peking - Ralph Wardlaw Thompson's deputation tour
John Allardyce, Peking - requests grants to enlarge boys school and Fanshan premises; translating Sunday School lessons
Alice Esam, on grand canal, Yensan - needs colleague
Thomas Howard Smith, Peking - Peking missionaries' response re salary adjustments
George Owen, Peking and on board steamship Polynesia - Bible revision, with comments on Chalmers' work; emperor's reform edict; difficulties of Bible Revision Committee; coup d'etat in Peking
Jonathan Lees (treasurer), Tientsin - rapid pace of changes; gospel leaflet enclosed; copy of part of letter to Victor Barradale (missionary candidate); poem; photo of entrance to Mrs King [Dr Leonora Howard]'s hospital
Clara Goode, Peking - her resignation, to marry Mr Russell (Imperial College, Peking)
Members of East City Church, Peking (Chinese, with translation) appreciation of benefits from the West, the Gospel and George Owen,
James Liddell,on board steamship Sachsen and from Chao Yang
John Grant, Tungan - he and Mrs Grant [née Mary Elizabeth Roberts] welcomed
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