The correspondents include Rutherford Alcock; Walter E. Allum; Alexander Forbes Angus (tea inspector for Jardine, Matheson and Co.); Viscomte Brenier de Montmorand (French Consul-General, Shanghai); Francis Bulkeley Bulkeley-Johnson (also Francis Bulkeley Johnson, afterwards Bulkeley-Johnson); Charles Carroll; Thomas H. Chapman (of Dent and Co.); Richard Bell Davies; Albert Deacon; A. Fincham; British merchants at Foochow, 1866; William Raymond Gingell; Thomas Gibson Glover (Captain of the 'Mahamoodie'); Richard Farr Hamilton (of Jardine, Matheson and Co.); F.G. Hely; David Jardine (partner, Jardine, Matheson and Co.); Joseph Jardine; Sir Robert Jardine, 1st Baronet; William Keswick; Charles John King (of Moncreiff, Grove and Co.); Thomas Lancaster Larken (of Jardine, Matheson and Co.); Thomas Arthur Lyon (tea inspector for Jardine, Matheson and Co.); Malcolm Anderson Macleod (junior partner, Jardine, Matheson and Co.); Herbert St Leger Magniac; Charles Noack; William Paterson (partner, Jardine, Matheson and Co.); Alexander Perceval; Rawling, Medlen and Co.; Captain Thomas Sullivan; Robert Richard Westall; George Whitfield; Edward Whittall; James Whittall; and John Williams.