The correspondents include William Comstock Jnr; Richard Bell Davies; Dodd and Co.; Duncan Forbes (Captain of the 'Lady Hayes', 'Folkestone' and 'Mahamoodie'); John C. Fulcher (of the 'Pathfinder'); Hawaiian Consul at Hong Kong; Robert Alexander Houstoun; David Jardine (partner, Jardine, Matheson and Co.); Joseph Jardine; William Keswick; Thomas Larkins (Captain of H.C.S. 'Marquis of Camden'); Thomas Arthur Lyon (tea inspector for Jardine, Matheson and Co.); Malcolm Anderson Macleod (junior partner, Jardine, Matheson and Co.); Captain Robert McMurdo; Alexander Wentworth Macpherson; Herbert St Leger Magniac; Donald Matheson; T. Miller; James Miln (Captain of the 'Vixed' and 'Mahamoodie'); Joseph H. Milnor; Alexander Perceval; Harvey Piper; Edmund Pye; Randall Howell Pye; Henry Smith (of Jardine, Matheson and Co., Amoy, and Elles and Co.); James Tait (Spanish Vice-Consul, Amoy); and James Whittall.