Papers, 1853-1872.

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Papers, 1853-1872.

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Papers include two letters concerning arrangements for a tour of Bradford and other British manufacturing cities by the Iwakura embassy from Japan, and a program from a banquet in honor of the embassy; two letters to William Lockhart, British medical missionary, discussing the rebellion at Nanking, the situation at Canton, American diplomat Peter Parker, British success at Peking, and the imprisonment of Parkes and his entourage; and a personal letter.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6993369

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Parkes, Harry, Sir, 1828-1885

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British diplomat and minister to Japan, 1865-1883. From the description of Papers, 1853-1872. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20072032 Epithet: KCB, diplomatist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000621.0x000059 Sir Harry Smith Parkes (1828-1885), British minister to Japan, 1865-1883, and subsequently to China and Korea, 1883-1885. Parkes wa...

Parker, Peter, 1804-1888

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Peter Parker, medical missionary and diplomat to China, was born in Framingham, Massachusetts in 1804. His parents were farmers and devout followers of the orthodox Congregational faith. After graduation from Yale College in 1831, Parker studied both theology and medicine and was awarded an M.D. from Yale in 1834. In January of the same year he was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in Philadelphia and departed a month after for Canton as the first Protestant medical missionary to China. With...

Lockhart, William, 1820-1892

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