Janus: Papers of Sir Harry Parkes

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33	Miscellaneous papers
34	Printed documents
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Papers of Sir Harry Parkes

Title	Printed documents
Reference	MS Parkes 34
Covering Dates	1854–1885
Extent and Medium	1 bundle

Content and context

Miscellaneous printed documents, including official and unofficial memoranda and minutes.

Manuscripts/MS Parkes 34 contains:

Despatch re the opening of Japanese ports. 'Despatch from Rear-Admiral Sir James Stirling Respecting Convention for Opening certain Ports in Japan to British Ships', printed for the use of the Foreign Office. The despatch includes related enclosures, including correspondence between Stirling and the Governor of Nagasaki, and a 'Diary of Events, Visits, Conferences, and Communications for the whole period of the Negotiation in Respect of the Convention entered into by Rear-Admiral Sir James Stirling, Commander-in-chief, with the Governor and the Inspector of Nagasaki, on the 14th October, 1854, for Opening certain Ports in Japan to British Ships. Kept by Captain M[ark] J[ohn] Currie, R.N., in pursuance of directions from the Commander-in-chief'.
25 folios (sewn together).

23 Dec. 1854

Articles of the Treaty of Tientsin. A summary of selected articles of the Treaty of Tientsin signed on 26 June 1858, produced by the North-China Herald Office, Shanghai.
1 folio.

13 July 1858

Circular from Kanagawa. An undated circular by Francis Vyse, Acting Consul, Kanagawa, 23 November 1859, 1 bifolio, including a despatch from Rutherford Alcock to Vyse, Yedo, 21 November 1859, and a table of applications made to the Treasury at Kanagawa for itzeboos in exchange for dollars, 2-4 November 1859. There is also a cutting from the 'Daily Telegraph', London, 27 February 1860, pp. 5-6, including two articles, 'The Stoppage of Trade in Japan' and 'Lord Elgin and Sir M. Seymour'.
1 folio + 1 bifolio.

1859–1860

China and Japan Consular Regulations. 'China and Japan Consular Service. General Regulations for the Establishments of the Superintendency and Consulates': regulations from the Foreign Office, 1 April 1862, 2 bifolios (sewn together).
1 pamphlet.

1862

Minute of the Punjab Governor. 'Minute by the Honorable the Lieutenant Governor Punjab': a minute by Sir Robert Montgomery, Lahore, concerning Robert Henry Davies' 'Report on the Trade and Resources of the Countries on the North-Western Boundary of British India' (Lahore, 1862).
2 bifolios (tied together).

Jan. 1863

Draft treaty between Prussia and France. 'Der Vertrags-Entwurf Benidetti's in Autographie': a draft of a proposed treaty between Prussia and France [Berlin, August 1866], written in French, with a German title, undated. The document is a facsimile, and probably a version of the lithographic copy issued by the Prussian authorities to Lord Loftus on 26 July 1870. The writing is in the hand of the Comte Vincent Benedetti.
1 bifolio.

circa 1870

The Constitution of Japan. An undated English translation of the constitution promulgated in June 1868.
1 folio.

circa 1868

Memorandum on punishment of daimyos. An undated memorandum [January 1869] concerning the punishment of daimyos hitherto in rebellion against the Emperor Meiji, including an English translation of an Imperial edict of January 1869 published in the 'Yedo Official Gazette' of 24 [January 1869].
1 bifolio.

Jan. 1869

Memorandum on Japanese government and newspapers. A printed memorandum by W.G. Howell, with manuscript annotations, concerning the Japanese government and newspaper publication, including reference to the 'Japan Mail', undated [Yokohama?, c. May 1872].
1 bifolio.

circa 1872

Notice of the Reception of the Ministers of Western Powers. 'Notice of the Reception of the Ministers of Western Powers by the Emperor of China' (in Peking on 29 June 1873), an undated English translation by T.F.W. (Thomas Francis Wade) 'from an account drawn up for distribution in China', including explanatory notes by Wade.
1 bifolio.

circa 1873

Documents re dispute over Yokohama foreign residences. A document printed for the use of the Foreign Office containing copies of items concerning a dispute over the right of the foreign community in Yokohama to land or embark from the sea front of their residences. The document includes a letter from Parkes, Yedo, to Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby, 12 May 1874; a letter from Parkes, Yedo, to Terashima Munenori, 9 May 1874; a letter from Russell Brooke Robertson, Kanagawa, to Parkes, 6 May 1874; a notice issued by Alexander E. Olarovsky (Russian diplomat), Yokohama, 8 May 1874; and a notification issued by a Kanagawa government officer, Kanagawa, 25 April 1870.
1 bifolio.

22 July 1874

Regulations for H.M. Diplomatic Service. 'Regulations for Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service': regulations as amended by Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquis of Salisbury, and issued on 1 January 1879, followed by a circular letter from Lord John Russell to Heads of Missions, 6 November 1860, 7 folios (sewn together).
1 pamphlet.

1879

Letter from Jacob Behrens. A letter from Jacob Behrens, Bradford, to Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquis of Salisbury, 22 March 1879, numbered 408, possibly printed for the use of the Foreign Office, paginated [292]-297.
2 folios + 1 bifolio (sewn together).

1879

Convention between the United States and Japan. 'Convention between the United States of America and the Emperor of Japan. Revising Certain Portions of Existing Commercial Treaties': a proclamation made by Rutherford Hayes on 8 April 1879, including the convention concluded in Washington D. C. on 25 July 1878 by William Evarts and Yoshida Kiyonari, undated.
1 bifolio.

circa 1879

Correspondence between Mori Arinori and Earl Granville. A letter from Mori Arinori, London, to Granville Leveson-Gower, Earl Granville, 12 July 1881, numbered 75, and a letter from Granville to Mori, 23 July 1881, numbered 79, possibly printed for the use of the Foreign Office. The text is on three sheets, two of which have been glued to backing sheets, while the other is paginated 92.
3 folios.

1881

Minutes of Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation E.G.M. Minutes of an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation held in Hong Kong on 30 December 1882, undated.
1 bifolio.

circa 1883

Tables of Japanese duties. 'Draft Tariff: Counter Project of Foreign Delegates': tables showing the Japanese proposed duties ad valorem and the foreign counter-proposals for 472 commodities, arranged alphabetically by commodity and classified according to rates of duty, undated (1882?), 18 folios + cover.
1 pamphlet.

1882

The Fournier Memorandum. 'The Fournier Memorandum': 'Communication écrite déposée entre les mains de son Excellence Li Hung-chang, le 17 Mai, 1884, à Tientsin' (in French) by François Fournier, concerning articles in the preliminary convention signed on 11 May 1884: an undated printed copy 'From a fac-simile'.
1 folio.

circa 1884

Speech of Governor Bowen. 'Speech of His Excellency the Governor [Sir George Ferguson Bowen] at the Prorogation of the Session of the Legislative Council of Hongkong, 3rd July, 1884', undated.
1 bifolio.

1884

Cutting from the 'Evening Post'. A press cutting from the 'Evening Post', Supplement, New York, [20 or 27] June [1885], including 'Captive in Pekin, 1860. Narrative of the Late Sir H. Parkes'.
1 folio.

June 1885

Prospectus for Parkes memorial. 'Proposed Memorial to the late Sir Harry S. Parkes, K.C.B., G.C.M.G. British Minister Plenipotentiary at Peking': a prospectus for a subscription to be effected by a committee chaired by Sir Rutherford Alcock, 21 December 1885.
1 bifolio.

1885