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. Scroll from the Kuang-hsü Emperor of China to the President of the United States, Rutherford Birchard Hayes

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

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. Scroll from the Kuang-hsü Emperor of China to the President of the United States, Rutherford Birchard Hayes

1763-2002

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/5716492

This item is a scroll from the Kuang-hsü Emperor of China to President Rutherford Birchard Hayes, written in both Manchu and Chinese characters. The characters are written in black ink on a yellow background. The background color of the scroll was created using gamboge, a dark mustard yellow pigment. Decorating the border of the scroll are repeated dragon designs in black ink. In the center of the scroll is a seal stamped in red ink. In the scroll, the Emperor of China accredits Chen Lan-pin as Envoy Extraordinary and Yung Wing as Assistant Envoy to the United States. The scroll was to be presented to President Hayes by Chen and Yung. A translation of the letter is available in "Note from Chinese Ambassadors Chen Lan-pin and Yung Wing to Secretary of State William Maxwell Evarts, September 21, 1878" (ARC Identifier 5716490).

1 page

eng, Latn

National Archives at College Park

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6483477

National Archives at College Park

Related Entities

There are 5 Entities related to this resource.

Evarts, William Maxwell, 1818-1901

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v8080n (person)

William Maxwell Evarts (February 6, 1818 – February 28, 1901) was an American lawyer and statesman from New York who served as U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator from New York. He was renowned for his skills as a litigator and was involved in three of the most important causes of American political jurisprudence in his day: the impeachment of a president, the Geneva arbitration and the contests before the electoral commission to settle the presidential election of 18...

Yung, Wing, 1828-1912

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69032vs (person)

First Chinese student to graduate from Yale University (1854); served in Imperial Customs Translating Department, Shanghai; worked under the Viceroy Tsang Kwoh Fan, 1863-1865; involved with education in China and in sending Chinese students to the U.S.; held various posts in the Chinese government until 1902, when he moved permanently to the U.S. From the description of Yung Wing papers, 1848-2001 (inclusive), 1848-1910 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122562677 From t...

Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64r8hwj (person)

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...

Kuang-hsü, Emperor of China, 1871-1908

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hv8rkv (person)

Chen, Lan-pin

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ct1wz6 (person)