Shanghai General Letters

Correspondence files containing copies of letters from John Swire & Sons London to Butterfield & Swire Shanghai and theirs to London, on the same format as the Hong Kong series and with the same type of indexes.The files cover the Shanghai side of the China Navigation Company organisation, i...

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Date(s) of creation: 1880-1950
Level: Series
Format: Archive           

Summary: Correspondence files containing copies of letters from John Swire & Sons London to Butterfield & Swire Shanghai and theirs to London, on the same format as the Hong Kong series and with the same type of indexes.The files cover the Shanghai side of the China Navigation Company organisation, including Shanghai itself Northern Chinese trade and the Yangtze River.
Extent: 44 boxes; 25 files
Access status: Open
Copyright: Copyright is owned by John Swire & Sons, Ltd, 59 Buckingham Gate, London, SW1E 6AJ
User restrictions: Copying for personal research purposes is permitted. Please contact the archivist for all publication requests.
Language: English
Finding aids: Paper handlist available
Related material: Related MaterialFor 1940 and 1941 the main series of letters are to be found in the Shanghai Master Files. (JSSII 3)
Format: Archive