The Archive · 1910

A Fragment of Old China

January 26.

We print this morning, by the courtesy of Sir Havilland de Sans-mare, a singularly interesting piece of hitherto unpublished correspondence between Commodore Anson and Lieutenant Philip Saumarez of H. M.S. Centurion interesting alike for the quiintness of its spelling, for its vivid reminiscence of the very early di of British enterprise la China, and as an illustration of the faithfulness with which Chinese have dong to their policy of delay and evasion in dealing with the foreigner, The

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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