£230
CHINA INLAND MISSION: three ALS from Miss Fanny Lloyd, Chang King, West China, 1898: total of 13 pages, to her nephew Henry Barne, discussing 'the disturbed state of the country', mentioning 'a riot at Sha. Si, a large city on the Yangtze'. She believes that the problem is that 'the Chinese are so like children, copying one another'. The authorities can do little to quell the many uprisings and fear that 'if the leaders are beheaded it will only incense all the more...' Miss Lloyd is a committed Christian and criticises her fellow workers 'who do not know anything about the local customs and often cannot understand the dialect', going on to discuss teaching at the mission school... 'considering that the Chinese are so unaccustomed to discipline they take it all very well', but she is preoccupied by the opium problem as it is smoked everywhere, particularly 'in private houses': light toning and folds, with accompanying envelope. (3)
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