General Records of the Department of State. 1763 - 2002. Notes from Foreign Missions. 1789 - 1906. Notes from Foreign Missions, China. 4/1/1868 - 12/30/1885. Note from Chinese Ambassadors Chen Lan-pin and Yung Wing to Secretary of State William Maxwell Evarts

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General Records of the Department of State. 1763 - 2002. Notes from Foreign Missions. 1789 - 1906. Notes from Foreign Missions, China. 4/1/1868 - 12/30/1885. Note from Chinese Ambassadors Chen Lan-pin and Yung Wing to Secretary of State William Maxwell Evarts

1868-1906

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This item is a note from Chinese Ambassadors Chen Lan-pin and Yung Wing to Secretary of State William Maxwell Evarts. The note describes Chen's position as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States and Yung's position as Assistant Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States. In the note, Chen and Yung request a time to deliver their credentials to President Rutherford Birchard Hayes. Enclosed with this item was "Scroll from the Kuang-hsü Emperor of China to the President of the United States, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, February 26, 1878" (ARC Identifier 5716492). Included with the note are a copy of Chen and Yung's note to Secretary Evarts written in Chinese characters; a translation of the enclosed scroll; a copy of the scroll's text written in Chinese characters; a copy of Chen and Yung's remarks to President Hayes, scheduled to be read during their presentation of the scroll; and a copy of the President Hayes' remarks welcoming Chen and Yung as envoys from China.

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Evarts, William Maxwell, 1818-1901

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Yung, Wing, 1828-1912

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Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893

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Rutherford B. Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio, in 1822 and earned degrees from Kenyon College and Harvard Law School before starting a career as a lawyer in Cincinnati. Hayes served as a major general in the Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War and was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1864. Hayes then was elected Governor of Ohio and later served one term as President of the United States (1877-1881) before retiring to his home in Fremont, Ohio, where he died in 1893.President of the Uni...