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A letter from Mori Arinori, London, to Granville Leveson-Gower, Earl Granville, 12 July 1881, numbered 75, and a letter from Granville to Mori, 23 July 1881, numbered 79, possibly printed for the use of the Foreign Office. The text is on three sheets, two of which have been glued to backing sheets, while the other is paginated 92.

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From the Foreign Office.

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A copy of a despatch from Granville Leveson-Gower, Foreign Office, originally signed for Granville by Philip Henry Wodehouse Currie.

Scope and Contents A folder labelled 'Japan Treaty Revision Sir Harry Parkes to Earl Granville November 20th 1882' containing copies of 3 documents (241 tied folios and 3 loose bifolios, excluding the cover):Despatch from Parkes to Granville Leveson-Gower, Earl Granville, consisting of a draft by Parkes of a memorandum concerning the Preliminary Conference on treaty revision, including a table of contents, Tokyo, 20 November 1882.Memorandum by Parkes concerning territorial and...

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Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection contains a wide range of professional and personal papers. There is an extensive selection of printed and manuscript material collected in Hong Kong, China and Japan throughout Parkes' career. There are also around 750 letters, including correspondence with Sir Rutherford Alcock, Major-General Charles George Gordon, Lord John Russell and Sir Ernest Satow. Most of the personal correspondence addressed to Parkes dates from the last two years of his life, with much of the...

Scope and Contents 1. Family papers The papers contain material relating to the Actons of Naples: Commodore John Acton, his nephew J.F.E. Acton and H. Acton, a midshipman; material concerning the Dalberg family, particularly the family property on the Rhine, at Herrnsheim; a few manuscripts relating to Lord Granville; and the 1st Lord Acton's personal papers, including those covering his early years, his parliamentary career and interest in Ireland, relations with his family, and the period of his life spent...

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A copy or draft, with annotations, of a letter from the Joint Tariff Committee of the Yorkshire Chambers of Commerce, Bradford, to Granville Leveson-Gower, Earl Granville, November 1881, including a table of the tariff of Japan of 1866 and that proposed in 1880. The document is labelled in Parkes' hand 'Bradford Chamber of Commerce'.

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A copy of a message announcing the recipient's appointment to Peking, probably the text of or an extract from a telegram from Granville Leveson-Gower, Earl Granville (?), to Parkes, undated [1883].

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'Mori Ap.9.': undated notes in Parkes' hand concerning treaty revision, referring to Mori Arinori; Granville Leveson-Gower, Lord Granville; and Sir Julian Pauncefote. The notes are on a sheet of Athenæum Club notepaper.

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Undated notes in Parkes' hand concerning treaty revision, written on paper that includes the printed names of Granville Leveson-Gower, Earl Granville, and Sir Julian Pauncefote.

Scope and Contents The correspondents include Aldridge and Blackwell; John H. Alley; John Lavicourt Anderdon; William Henry Anderson; Alexander Forbes Angus (tea inspector for Jardine, Matheson and Co.); [ ] Armstrong; Samuel Ball; Baring, Brothers and Co.; Samuel George Bonham; Boorman, Johnston and Co.; John Bowring; [ ] Brown; Francis Bulkeley Bulkeley-Johnson (also Francis Bulkeley Johnson, afterwards Bulkeley-Johnson); Charles John Canning, Lord Canning; Lieutenant-Colonel Francisco de Castro; Samuel W....