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HOUG/E/M/3/38
Titre
Letter from Edward Charles MacIntosh Bowra to Lord Houghton
Date(s)
- 15 Jan. 1868 (Production)
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2 ff.
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Office of Chinese Customs, Ningpo. - Met Houghton at Lord Milton's dinner to the Chinese Mission in 1866; has worked for the Mission in China for five years but wishes to return to England before age and ill health preclude another career; seeks post of Queen's Messenger to the Foreign Office; outlines project for opening a trade route between north-west Hindustan and China; increasing liberalism of the Chinese Government; compares alternative routes between China and Calcutta; would gladly assist in exploring them, either with or without support of the Foreign Office or the Royal Geographical Survey.