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Notes
- General Note:
- Letter 1 of PP MS 67, Sir Robert Hart, Box 2, File 1. Dated: 1879 June 6
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- From the personal papers collection of Sir Robert Hart, comprised of private letters from Sir Robert Hart to his personal representative in England, James Duncan Campbell. This letter is from Series Z.
- General Note:
- Sir Robert Hart (1835-1911) was Inspector General of the Imperial Maritime Customs (later Chinese Maritime Customs) from 1863.
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- James Duncan Campbell was born in Edinburgh in 1833. Educated at Cheltenham College and the universities of Paris and Heidelberg, he worked for the Post Office and the Treasury before 1862. In that year he joined the Chinese Maritime Customs and became non-resident secretary in London in 1874. He was sent to Paris in 1884 by Robert Hart to negotiate on behalf of the Quing government a cease-fire agreement in the Sino-French War. He married Ellen Mary Lewis in 1870. He died on 3 December 1907. -- At the time of this letter, James Duncan Campell (金登幹), British by nationality, was serving as a Non-Resident Secretary, Inspector General, to the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service and was based the Service's London office. (see: Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs. Service List. 1881.)
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- VIAF (name authority) : Campbell, J. D. (James Donald), 1884- : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/104048838
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- VIAF (name authority) : Hart, Robert, 1835-1911 : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/64802355
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- SOAS University of London
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- Special Collections
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- PP MS 67, Sir Robert Hart, Box 2, File 1 ( Order with reference )
PP MS 67/02/01/01 ( CALM reference )
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