The Archive · 1870

The Peking College

To the Editor of the Sir,—Do you think that you could induce' the gentlemen connected with the Peking Colleye to publish all the interest ing correspondence that has passed between them, and from which stray passages have been quoted in the letters which have appeared in your own columns from the Professors? After so many hints of the telary efforts that have been expended between Mr, Hart and the Professors, and between the Professors themselves, it would be only just to the public to allow them to judge of the rights and wrongs of college matters by publishing the whole correspondence.

To take M. Lépissier' letter in your issue of yesterday, the following extract from a letter of Mr. Hart's is therein quoted, in reference to Professor Lépissier Himself, that so position & Pekin nest pas dine de ses talents, et que ses appoint capa It is clear that the letter in temenis ne sent pas en proportion de so

which such a passage occurs must have been written on some extraordinary occasion. Did Professor Lépissier apply for a categorical statement on the subject, or was Mr. Hart anxious to pay hima Chinese Will Professor Lépissier publish the letter from which the passage referred to has been extracted, so that we may see under what conditions Mr. Hart offers such a high estimate of the Professor's talents, and such a low estimate of the duties which he agreed to come from Krance to undertake? we are to be admitted to the secrets of the Peking squabbles, by all means let us have entire documents, or at least entire sentences pnt before us, and not merely a few apparently incomplete phrases. Yours &e, Shanghai, 23rd March, 1870. ficial Documents.

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