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Auction: 21042 - The Opium Wars Collection
Lot: 28

First Opium War
The Kowloon Incident
1839 (17 July) entire letter to Henry Silverlock in Chichester from his son, John, in Macao; sent "via Marseilles" and rated at "2/8" in black ink and carried privately to India as marked "care of Messrs Ritchie Steuart Co. Bombay", a note on the flap shows that this was received in Bombay on 29th September. The address side with the alternative rate mark crossed through and "INDIA" in large oval, the reverse with two fine London transit c.d.s. (16.11) and a superb strike of the boxed "british/foreign" handstamp struck in London. The contents are not long but includes the news, "I arrived here last night ... Mr Hughes is here but we can do no business at present, all the British merchants are here and will remain till Capt. Elliot receives answers from England to his despatches as yet I have not learnt the particular of the row" (the incident of Lin Weixi). There are a few light age marks, an interesting cover


1839年7月17日澳門的John Silverlock 寄給居住在英國Chichester的父親之信函, 此信函首先由私人携往印度孟買, 到達日期是9月29日, 蓋有㰐圓形 "INDIA" 戳, 再由孟賣Ritchie Steuart & Co. 經馬賽而送抵英倫. 於11月16日到達倫敦時蓋有两枚完好的中轉日戳, 及一長框型 "British/ Foreign" 印記. 信內容不長, 但有一條消息, "我昨晚到了……休斯先生在這裡, 但我們現在不能做生意, 所有英國商人都在這裡, 直到埃利奧特上尉得到答复從英國到他的派遣至今我還沒有了解這一行的具體情況”（林維喜事件). 信函有些淡淡的歲月痕跡, 一封有趣的信函.

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