Letters from her brother John Robert Morrison

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1830-1843
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MS.5843
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Letters from her brother John Robert Morrison. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Letters to Mary Rebecca Morrison, afterwards Hobson, in Macao from her brother John Robert Morrison, mainly while in Canton. Most letters were written whilst working as a translator to the English merchants in Canton, and constitute a numbered sequence of correspondence, possibly numbered on receipt by M. R. Morrison. 1830-1844 and n.d.

1 Note [written by Archibald Hobson] concerning the correspondence between Mary Rebecca and John Robert

2/1-2 Canton, 6-7 Oct 1830

3/1-2 Canton, 9 Oct 1830

4 Canton, 9 Oct 1830

5/1-2 Canton, 13 Oct 1830

6 Canton, 16 Oct 1830

7 Canton, 16 Oct 1830

8 Canton, 23 Oct 1830

9 Canton, 27 Oct 1830

10 Canton, 30 Oct 1830

11 Canton, 5 Nov 1830

12 Canton, 8 Nov 1830

13 Canton, 10 Nov 1830

14 Canton, 12-13 Nov 1830

15 Canton, 17-18 Nov 1830

16 Canton, 23 Nov 1830

17 Canton, 25 Nov 1830. Includes a note from J. R. Morrison to his father the Revd. Robert Morrison

18/1-2 Canton, 27-29 Nov 1830

19 Canton, 2-3 Dec 1830

20 Canton, 7 Dec 1830

21 Canton, 10 Dec 1830

22 Canton, 27 Dec 1830

23 Canton, 30 Dec 1830

24 Canton, 31 Dec 1830 - Jan 1 1831

25 Canton, 5 Jan 1831

26 Canton, 10-11 Jan 1831

27 3 May 1832

28 3 Sept 1832. No. 1

29 3 Sept 1832. No. 1

30 4 Sept [1832]. No. 2

31 Canton, 7 Sept 1832. No. 3

32 7 Sept 1832. No. 4

33 Canton, 10 Sept 1832. No. 5

34 20 Sept [1832]. No. 6

35 Canton, 21 Sept [1832]. No. 7

36 Canton, 23 Sept 1832. No. 8

37 29 Sept 1832. No. 9

38 5 Oct 1832. No. 10

39 Canton, 6 Oct 1832. No. 11

40 6 Oct 1832. No. 12

41 9 Oct [1832]. [No. 13]

42 9 Oct 1832. [No. 13]

43 12 Oct [1832]. [No. 14]

44 Canton, 14 Oct 1832. [No. 15]

45 Canton, 20 Oct 1832. No. 18

46 20 Oct [1832]. No. 19

47 26 Oct [1832]. [No. 16]

48 27 Oct [1832]. [No. 17]

49 30 Oct 1832. No. 20

50 Canton, 6 Nov 1832

51 Off Lintin, 27 Dec 1832. No. 28

52 Canton, 21 June [1833]. No. 30

53 Canton, 27 June 1833. No. 31

54 Canton, 1 July 1833. No. 32

55 Canton, 8 July 1833. No. 33

56 Canton, 27 July [1833]. No. 35

57 6 Aug [1833]. No. 36

58 Canton, 31 Aug 1833. No. 37

59 Canton, 12 Sept 1833. No. 38

60 Canton, 15 Sept 1833. No. 45

61 Canton, 19 Sept [1833]. No. 39

62 Canton, 20 Sept 1833. No. 40

63 Canton, 23 Sept 1833. No. 41

64 28 Sept 1833. No. 42

65 2 Oct 1833. No. 43

66 9 Oct 1833. No. 44

67 20 Oct 1833. No. 46

68 Canton, 23 Oct 1833. No. 47

69 Canton, 14 Nov [1833]. No. 48

70 Canton, 17 Nov [1833?]. No. 49

71 25 Nov [1833?]. No. 50

72 n.d. [1833?]. No. 52

73 n.d. [1833?]. No. 53

74 Canton, 1 Dec 1833. No. 54

75 Macao, 6-20 Aug 1834. No. 1

76 Canton, 17 Aug 1834. No. 2

77 Canton, 30 Sept 1834. No. 4

78 Canton, 4 Oct 1834. No. 5. Endorsed '6 [Oct 1834]'

79/1-3 To Mary Rebecca at Pulteney St., Bath. Macao, 3-4 Aug 1843. Endorsed 'Jan 16, 1844'

80 To Mary Rebecca from her brother. N.d., [Oct 1833]. Refers to the arrival [in Canton, Oct. 1833] of Mr. S. Wells Williams and Rev Ira Tracey, sent by the American Board of Commissioners to China.

81 To Mary Rebecca from her brother. N.d. Written aboard ship, off shore from Heung Shan, situated between Macao and Canton

82 To Mary Rebecca from her brother. N.d.

83 Wrapper, to Miss Morrison. No. 25

84 Wrapper, to Miss Morrison. No. 26

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1830-1843

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Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).

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