Scope and Contents Letters from Yokohama, including some from Kanagawa. There are 3,661 principal letters and 7 supplementary letters. The correspondents include the following names:H.J. Adair; James Aitchaison (Captain of the 'Mountain Ash'); William Aitchison (of Jardine, Matheson & Co.); Rutherford Alcock; Alsop & Co.; Charles Godfrey Ancel (of H.M.S. 'Scylla' and Assistant Paymaster, Royal Navy); Captain George Cobham Anderson (Marine Superintendent, Jardine Matheson, Hong Kong); Robert...

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Letters from Parkes and some related papers. The principal recipients are Marcus Octavius Flowers, Sir Daniel Brooke Robertson, Hiram Shaw Wilkinson and Charles Alexander Winchester. Some letters have notes recording the date of receipt and reply.

Scope and Contents Correspondence and related items, consisting chiefly of letters to Parkes. Some of the documents are undated. The regular correspondents are Sir Rutherford Alcock, William Thornton Bate, Sir John Bowring, Max August Scipio von Brandt, Sir Frederick William Adolphus Bruce, Arthur Davenport, (Baron) Edmund Hammond, Patrick Joseph Hughes, John Robertson and John Russell Young. Other correspondents include William George Aston, Byron Brenan, Sir William Montagu Dowell, Robert James Forrest, Sir...

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An undated manuscript list of law reports, printed statutes and textbooks on English and international law, showing the prices of volumes, including remarks on the provision of works to consulates. The document is labelled on the back in Parkes' hand 'Law Books Lowder Wilkinson' (John Lowder and Hiram Wilkinson).

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'Consolidated Regulations of the several Societies of Lincoln's Inn, the Middle Temple, the Inner Temple, and Gray's Inn, (hereinafter described as the four Inns of Court,) as to the Admission of Students, the Mode of Keeping Terms, the Calling of Students to the Bar, the Granting Certificates to Practise under the Bar, and Legal Education' (printed), dated Michaelmas Term, 1869, labelled in Parkes' hand 'From Wilkinson' (Sir Hiram Wilkinson).