LORD ELGIN AND THE TAIPINGS
31 Elgin to Malmesbury, No. 228, Inclosure No. 3, p. 449.
32 Elgin to Clarendon, No. 139, Shanghai, April 9, 1858, BB, IX, 260.
33 Elgin to Malmesbury, No. 228, p. 445.
34 Ibid.
35 Ibid.
36 Ibid.
37 Ibid., pp. 442-443.
38 Ibid., p. 442.
39 Brine, p. 268.
40 Hsü, China's Entrance, p. 78, citing Reed to Cass, November 5, 1858, China: Dispatches, Vol. 17, Doc. 35. It should be noted, however, that this is indirect evidence, but given by a contemporary who was generally co-operative with Elgin.
41 See John S. Gregory, "British Intervention Against the Taiping Rebellion," Journal of Asian Studies, XIX, No. 1 (November 1959), 12-13.