Letters, some annotated by Mills, requesting information on travel to and within Canada, on family matters including Addis's mother's death and the birth of his daughter Robina, his business visit to the United States with diary notes on American life, the return to Shanghai, 'a garrison town', after the Boxer Uprising (Boxer Rebellion). From Edinburgh and Shanghai.

with detailed diary leaves on Chinese affairs, 'All up the Yangtze the business people remained at their posts even in Chungking [?]; only the missionaries fled. I don't blame them', 29 November, and on the behaviour of Hart and on the 'Yellow Peril' described by Hart. Also further diary leaves, Dec...

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Order number: PP MS 14, Box 20
Date(s) of creation: 1900
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: PP MS 14, Box 20
Summary: with detailed diary leaves on Chinese affairs, 'All up the Yangtze the business people remained at their posts even in Chungking [?]; only the missionaries fled. I don't blame them', 29 November, and on the behaviour of Hart and on the 'Yellow Peril' described by Hart. Also further diary leaves, December 1900 and January 1901 on Hart and Chinese affairs, catalogued in the letter books.
Extent: 20
Access status: Open
User restrictions: For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance
Language: English
Related material: See PP MS 14/67
Format: Archive