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Half-plate (landscape format).

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257 x 208 mm. View from a hill on the small island of Kulangsu looking down on the town and across the bay towards the town of Amoy itself. The town of Amoy is situated on the south west corner of Amoy Island, with Kulangsu Island in the bay facing the town. Kulangsu was first occupied by a British garrison in 1842, but was not made an international settlement until 1903.

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258 x 208 mm. Continuation of the view seen in Y3077C/29, looking over Kulangsu towards Amoy.

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250 x 212 mm Duplicate of Y3077C/30.

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55 x 80 mm. View of city streets and Dian Lake.

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Group portrait.

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52 x 50 mm.

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52 x 50 mm.

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267 x 213 mm. View from the landing stage on the Shanghai Bund looking towards the Nanking Road, with the Central Hotel on the left and the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China on the right.

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268 x 211 mm. View looking down onto the landing stage at Shanghai, with lines of rickshaws in the foreground and boats moored on the River Whangpoo beyond.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Album of photographs recording Paton's missionary work in China. The photographs are captioned and have been numbered in pencil, but as there are several sequences, and these are not complete, fresh numbers have been given. Plates 68 to 78 show scenes taken in late August 1896 on Kulangsoo, the island south of Amoy (also known as Xiamen). The institutional work of the Amoy mission was centred here as it was found to be healthier than Amoy itself.There are three missing...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Album of photographs recording Paton's missionary work in China. The photographs are captioned and have been numbered in pencil, but as there are several sequences, and these are not complete, fresh numbers have been given. Plates 68 to 78 show scenes taken in late August 1896 on Kulangsoo, the island south of Amoy (also known as Xiamen). The institutional work of the Amoy mission was centred here as it was found to be healthier than Amoy itself.There are three missing...

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A blurred image of two boats.

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Pencil note on cover reads ‘Document of the Burmese Envoys to Cochin China in 1823-1824.' 30p.

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English translation.14 pages.

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Originals and transcripts of letters between MAR and his mother, and later between him and his wife, Gladys.

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These letters are largely a record of Cameron's domestic arrangements and social life, with some mention of his work inspecting or supervising the construction of roads, bridges, buildings, lighthouses, and the harbour and defences of Singapore. They also briefly describe his appointment as president of a commission set up in 1890-91 to advise upon the supply of labour. The letters from 1891 narrate a visit to China and Japan (circa 250 sheets).

Scope and Contents Following Hugh Pearson’s death, the principal recipients of his letters, his mother Mrs Jean Pearson and his youngest sister Ursula Pearson, prepared them for publication along with extracts from his diaries. Copies were sent to London literary agents in 1928 and again in 1930, but plans to publish the memoirs as a book with the title ‘A sapper’s letters to his mother’ were never realised. It appears that this manuscript is a copy of the projected book, which was to be divided into three...

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'The log book of Capt. John Edwards, R.N. Given to Robert Stafford Edwards by his Aunt Miss Jane Edwards 1880. Solihull. Warwickshire.'

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Quarter-plate. [No print]. Missing.

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Quarter-plate. [No print]. Missing.

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Quarter-plate. [Showing sloping street in steps with a few people walking past tall buildings on either side].

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Landscape format. To left leads to Hong Kong Harbour: to right leads to open sea. Villages here are quarry villages - quarries being leased out - junks are fighting through against the tide.

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270 x 209 mm. View looking north across the bay at Macao towards the Fort of San Francisco.

Scope and Contents 961 x 249 mm. A panoramic view, looking north, of the Portuguese Colony of Macau (also spelt Macao), at the mouth of the Pearl River delta, by an unknown photographer. By the mid-1700s Macau had become the main European trading post on the southern China coast; a position it held until the British took Hong Kong in 1841. During the second half of the nineteenth century it declined as Hong Kong expanded and larger ships favoured the deeper water harbours off Hong Kong. The photograph shows...