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• Letters concerning the birth of Addis's son Tom, Addis's dispute with de Bovis while in Calcutta, 'It was plain I must contemplate leaving the Bank', 16 May, the death of Mills' mother, Chinese, Japanese and Russian politics including the loss to Britain of the first Chinese indemnity loan, the ineptness of O'Conor, the British negotiator, the discomfiture of Hart (very detailed) and the massacre of missionaries at Kucheng. From Shanghai.
• Letters and diary leaves, one from Mrs Addis, two catalogued in letter books, on personal matters relating to the Mills and Addis families, and long and detailed letter on the uprisings in Peking, the fate of the Emperor and members of the reform party and Chinese railway loans and negotiations. From Calcutta and Shanghai.
• Letter from S. Waterlow of the Foreign Office on the Prime Minister's attitude to the China Consortium. 'What it means is that, knowing nothing about the subject, he has been listening to some outsider.'
• Letters about golf, meetings with Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) staff in London, Hamburg and Berlin, attempts to arrange return passage to Shanghai and to help devise a Chinese language instruction scheme for Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) staff. Also letters and photograph of the ship Pretoria to daughters Betty and Robina. From Scotland, London and Germany.
• Letters on family matters and also mentioning a private meeting and preparation of a memorandum on bank rate for the Bank of England, dinners with overseas bankers and the Chinese legation, a currency debate at the Tuesday Club and, in very detailed letters from New York, meetings with China Consortium representatives, foreign diplomats and bankers, the progress of negotiations and their successful conclusion. 'The fate of the consortium still hangs in the balance. Whether we shall sign or not I don't know. Failure would be a disaster and the responsibility of saying No which now depends on me, is a heavy burden to bear.' 12 October. From London, Paris and New York,