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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