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• Letters on daily life, exercise and visits, the bungalow at Kuling, commissions for Mrs Addis and details of an argument with Lanning over Bible teaching in the Public School. 'It is sad to think how many people would deprive children of religious teaching rather than run the risk of their particular form of religion being interfered with', 4 July. Also copies of an application for leave and a letter to Addis's mother-in-law about Mrs Addis's allowance. From Shanghai to Kuling.
• Letters on daily routine, guests, coronation celebrations, sport, entertainments, the Addis's bungalow at Kuling, the death of Michie, 'I feel I have lost a ripe and sagacious counsellor', 12 August, and the experiences of acquaintances in the Siege of Peking. Also three letters to children Tom and Robina. From Shanghai and Kuling.
• Letters from Mrs Addis on holiday in Chefoo with family and local news; from Mrs Addis in Tientsin and Shanghai to Addis in Peking and Ningpo on family matters, daily life and, occasionally, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) staff.
• 10. Letter from Charles Addis to Aunt Mansfield on the departure of Addis's wife and children to Kuling.
• Letters from Mrs Addis in Hankow, Shanghai and en route for India to Addis in Calcutta describing her serious illness, children, daily life and occasional meetings with Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) staff including E.H. Oxley, Addis's successor in Hankow who 'seems to have a good deal of leisure ... I couldn't help contrasting him with my earnest, busy husband!' 13 April. With personal letters from Mrs Addis in Darjeeling to Addis in Calcutta and letters to Addis from his wife's doctor in Hankow.