"Copy of a translation into Chinese of the President's letter to the Emperor"

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Description

Title: "Copy of a translation into Chinese of the President's letter to the Emperor"
Creator: From the Collection: Parker, Peter, 1804-1888
Contributor: From the Collection: Lam, Qua
Published / Created: n.d.
Description: President John Tyler wrote a letter to the Emperor, sent with Caleb Cushing in 1844. A later U.S. president also wrote to the Emperor.
Provenance: Manuscripts were donated by Peter Parker of Barrington, Illinois, May 16, 1960. Portraits and urinary calculi donated in the late nineteenth century by Peter Parker to the Medical School through Moses C. White, professor of pathology and a former missionary to China. These were later transferred by the Medical School to the Historical Library. Some materials, including photographs, were donated in 1966 by Mrs. William W. Cadbury, widow of an early twentieth century medical missionary to Canton.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository

Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

Call Number

Ms Coll 6

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Container / Volume

1, folder 13

Access: Public
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Citation: Peter Parker Collection, Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University.