MAYERS, Acting Consul to Thomas Francis Wade, September 2, 1870
C. British Consulate, Che Foo, September 2, 1870. Sir: I have the honor to report to you that on the application of Mr. Holmes, the United States vice-consul at this…
Sir Thomas Francis Wade, was a British diplomat and sinologist who produced an early Chinese textbook in English, in 1867, that was later amended, extended and converted into the Wade-Giles romanization system for Mandarin Chinese by Herbert Giles in 1892. He was the first professor of Chinese at Cambridge University.
C. British Consulate, Che Foo, September 2, 1870. Sir: I have the honor to report to you that on the application of Mr. Holmes, the United States vice-consul at this…
J. Legation of the United States, Pekin, September 17, 1870. Sir: I am in receipt of information to the effect that, in consequence of reports of an intended attack by…
[Inclosure 4 in No. 45.—Translation.] Mr. Otin to Mr. Wade. Peking, February 22, 1875. M. le Ministre: I wish to place before the council of arbitration my formal protest against…