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Auction: 21042 - The Opium Wars Collection
Lot: 106

First Opium War
Prominent People
John Robert Morrison: 1840 (5 Apr.) entire letter written in Macao to his sister in London, rated "8" the flap with "4/4" rate mark (the cost of all the letters in the pack), a rather oily strike of the step-type "ship letter/plymouth" and London arrival c.d.s. (1.9); there is a vertical folding crease. The contents tell about his missionary work and his accounts of living in Macao.

His father, John Morrison, was the first protestant missionary in China. After his death, John Morrison replaced him as Chinese Secretary and Interpreter to the Superintendents of British Trade in China, John Morrison was appointed Chinese Secretary to the British East India Company on behalf of the British Government. He was involved in diplomacy during the First Opium War in which he held responsibility for the translation of the Treaty of Nanking. In 1843 he was appointed as Acting Colonial Secretary and a member of the Executive and Legislative Council


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