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.