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Great Ming Dynasty and the twelfth Tineal descendant of rat Tsu, and to all his Mandarins, the grace to know fand to worship Jesus our God.
"qhe "Empress Dowager Helena, surnamed the Gentle, Virtuous, Merelful and Serene, the Empress Dowager Mary, surnamed the Tilustrious fud Virtuous, the Empress Ann, Right ful Consort of His Majesty, and Prince Constantine, Heir Apparent to the Throne, are all good and faithful Catholics, I shall say no more concerning them as the Empress Dow-fager Helena is addressing a letter to you by the same messenger.
"I beg the Holy Father to grant me Plenary Indulganoe at the hour of my death and to send more Jesuit Fathers to China to bring the light fof the True Religion to my countrymen. May they see their errors, join the fold of Holy Church and, while here below, not live their lives in vain. That will be the greatest blessing of God on China, May it please Your Holiness to accept this, my letter, and look down with clemency lon' my humble petitions, "the eleventh day of the tenth moon of the fourth year of Yung-Li"
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.