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• Personal letters on meeting arrangements, religion, reading matter, attempts to publish railway article and to raise money for Chinese famine relief, acquaintances and home visit, with a long letter on board the SS Parramatta on fellow travellers, missions, reading and religion. From Scotland and at sea.
• Letters on family news, including the death of Mrs Mills senior, views of Cardinal Newman, talks with an acquaintance, Brown of Peking on Chinese affairs and problems with booksellers with a letter from Douglas on Addis's letters from China, China's relations with Japan and a successor to O'Conor. From England and Canada
• Letters on China famine relief and Addis's Eastern visit, British and American politics, Addis's advancing years' and 'increasing irritation' with work, Mills' writing and preparations for lectures on American history, family news and meeting arrangements. From England and France.
• Letters from Mills' parents and from Mills in Canada, including letters to Mrs Addis, on the opium question, book purchases, visits from Lockhart, Mills' and Addis's engagements, with a photograph of Mills' fiance, and Mills' visit to England. From Canada and England.
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