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Chester Holcombe to Prince Kung, June 27, 1878
[Inclosure 2 in No. 21.] Mr. Holcombe to Prince Kung. Peking, June 27, 1878. Unofficial.] I have the honor to inform your Imperial Highness that I am in receipt of…
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Letters to Prince Kung
B. 1833 · D. 1898
Yixin, better known in English as Prince Gong or Kung, was an imperial prince of the Aisin Gioro clan and an important statesman of the Manchu-led Qing dynasty in China. He was a regent of the empire from 1861 to 1865 and wielded great influence at other times as well. He was one of the twelve iron cap princes of the Qing Dynasty.
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Chester Holcombe to Prince Kung, November 21, 1878
[Inclosure 2 in No. 76.] Mr. Holcombe to Prince Kung. November 21, 1878. I have the honor to inform your Imperial Highness that I am in receipt of a communication…
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Chester Holcombe to Prince Kung, December 6, 1878
[Inclosure 2 in No. 91.] Mr. Holcombe to Prince Kung. December 6, 1878. Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Imperial Highness’s dispatch of the 28th…
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Chester Holcombe to Prince Kung, December 12, 1878
[Inclosure 4, in No. 91.] Mr. Holcombe to Prince Kung. December 12, 1878. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt this moment of your Imperial Highness’s dispatch of this…
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Chester Holcombe to Prince Kung, February 11, 1879
[Inclosure 3 with dispatch No. 123.] Mr. Holcombe to Prince Kung. February 11, 1879. (Red note.) Sir: His excellency the minister for France has furnished me with a copy of…
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Chester Holcombe to Prince Kung, March 7, 1879
[Inclosure 3 in dispatch No. 133.] Mr. Holcombe to Prince Kung. March 7, 1879. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your imperial highness’s dispatch of the 23d…
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Patenôtre to Prince Kung, February 2, 1880
[Inclosure in No. 591.] Joint note to Prince Kung. Peking, February 2, 1880. The undersigned have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the reply of the Prince of Kung,…
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George F. Seward to Prince Kung, February 6, 1880
[Inclosure in No. 586.] Mr. Seward to Prince Kung. February 6, 1880. Informal.] The undersigned is constrained to inform your imperial highness that reports are current and have reached his…
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George F. Seward to Prince Kung, April 8, 1880
[Inclosure in No. 654.] Mr. Seward to Prince Kung. Peking, April 8, 1880. Unofficial.] Your Imperial Highness: Sir Thomas Wade has communicated to me the note which their excellencies the…
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George F. Seward to Prince Kung, May 11, 1880
[Inclosure 2 in No. 681.] Mr. Seward to Prince Kung. Peking, May 11, 1880. Your Imperial Highness: I had the honor to wait on the ministers of the Yamên, on…
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G. F. Seward to Prince Kung, July 10, 1880
[Inclosure in No. 726.] Mr. Seward to Prince Kung. Peking, July 10, 1880. Informal.] I have had the honor to receive the letter which your imperial highness addressed to me…
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G. F. Seward to Prince Kung, August 13, 1880
[Inclosure 2 in No. 742.] Mr. Seward to Prince Kung. Legation of the United States, Peking, August 13, 1880. Informal.] I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of a…
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Henry Trescot to Prince Kung, September 25, 1880
[Inclosure 2 in No. 4.] The commissioners plenipotentiary to Prince Kung. September 25, 1880. Your Imperial Highness: Upon our arrival at this capital we had the honor to receive your…
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Angell to Prince Kung, December 18, 1880
[Inclosure 2 in 75.] Mr. Angell to Prince Kung. December 18, 1880. To His Imperial Highness Prince Kung: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your imperial highness’s…
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Angell to Prince Kung, February 9, 1881
[Inclosure 2 in No. 109.] Mr. Angell to Prince Kung. February 9, 1881. Your Imperial Highness: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt this morning, of Your Imperial Highness’s…
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James Burrill Angell to Prince Kung, April 15, 1881
[Inclosure 3 in No. 150.] Mr. Angell to Prince Kung. April 15, 1881. I have the honor to receive your imperial highness’s communication of the 11th instant containing the edict…
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James Burrill Angell to Prince Kung, April 30, 1881
[Inclosure 5 in No. 152.] Mr. Angell to Prince Kung. April 30, 1881. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of a communication (semi-official) from the foreign office, describing…
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James Burrill Angell to Prince Kung, June 3, 1881
[Inclosure 1 in No. 173.] Mr. Angell to Prince Kung. Peking, June 3, 1881. I have before me a copy of a most just and generous order, which your imperial…
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James Burrill Angell to Prince Kung, July 14, 1881
[Inclosure 1 in 198.] Mr. Angell to Prince Kung. July 14, 1881. I have from time to time heard from American missionaries resident at Teng Chow Foo, in Shantung, of…
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James Burrill Angell to Prince Kung, July 16, 1881
[Inclosure 2 in No. 186.] Mr. Angell to Prince Kung. July 16, 1881. Your Imperial Highness: A few weeks ago I received a copy of an agreement which the Northern…
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James Burrill Angell to Prince Kung, August 2, 1881
[Inclosure 3 in No. 199.] Mr. Angell to Prince Kung. August 2, 1881. [After reciting the facts and quoting largely from Messrs. Murray and Hunter’s letter, the dispatch proceeds:] I…
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James Burrill Angell to Prince Kung, August 10, 1881
[Inclosure 2 in No. 201.] Mr. Angell to Prince Kung. August 10, 1881. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your imperial highness’s communication of the 7th instant,…
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James Burrill Angell to Prince Kung, September 7, 1881
[Inclosure in 214.] Mr. Angell to Prince Kung. Peking, September 7, 1881. Sir: Yesterday I sent Mr. Acting Interpreter Taylor to the Tsung-li Yamên to confer with the ministers concerning…
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Chester Holcombe to Prince Kung, December 8, 1881
[Inclosure 1 in No. 28.] Mr. Holcombe to Prince Kung December 8, 1881. Your Imperial Highness: In reference to the correspondence which has passed between the foreign office and Mr.…