includes letters from:-
Dr John Dudgeon, Peking - tour
Jonathan Lees, Tientsin [Tianjin] - impact of LMS budget cuts, accounts and estimates; proposals and plan for hospital
Joseph Edkins, Peking [Beijing] - converts, one (a printer) influenced by block-cuting, a Mongol reading the New Testament; request for LMS Manchu Old Testament
James Williamson, Tientsin - usettling effect of rebels
joint printed appeal by Jonathan Lees and James Williamson, Tientsin for Tientsin LMS hospital