63
64
NCH 12.3.1859.
NCH 12.3.1859.
Lang, p. 51.
66 NCH 16.3.1861.
67
NCH 2.7.1864.
249
NCH 26.2.1859.
69 NCH 11.2.1865. Probably a detailed review had appeared in the North China Daily News, but as already stated in section II, this paper is not available in any library.
70 NCH 20.9.1856.
71
72
For the Hong Kong visit see China Mail 14.8.1856, 21.8.1856, 16.10.1856.
NCH 14.11.1863.
Dyce, p. 104,
74
NCH advertisement 6.2.1858.
75 NCH 31.1.1852, 23.2.1852.
76 NCH 25.3.1854.
77
Sec: Pearsall, p. 27-28.
According to Wright, p. 390.
70 L
81
"Puck'', Vol. II, no I (March 3, 1873), p. 11,
Barr, p. 110.
Smith, p. 228-229.
82 Makespeace e.a., Vol. II, p. 387.
83
NCH 28.3.1857.
**NCH 19.2.1859.
85
NCH 28.5.1864.
86
In Maybon & Fredet, fac. p. 368, with men playing the roles of women.
HJ The title of the play is wrongly given as "Send me 5 shillings".
88 White, p. 23.
89 NCH 21.2.1857.
90 Lang, p. 50.
91 NCH 31.1.1852.
92 NCH 27.3.1852.
93 NCH 8.5.1852.
94
That the Commercial House and the Commercial Hotel were at least on the same premises can be deduced from the fact that they bore the same Chinese hong name: **E-lee#" i.e. I-li (of Shanghai Almanac 1856: Commercial House; 1858: Commercial Hotel). The Commercial House was opened in May 1853 (advert. in NCH 7.5.1853) “on the site of the late Victoria Hotel". It was temporarily closed some years later and re-opened as the Commercial Hotel on June 13, 1856 (adv. in NCH 14.6.1856) by two Frenchmen, Barraud and Barrazie. On November 15, 1858, the building was sold at a public auction (adv. NCH 23.10.1858) for £4,200 (NCH 20.11.1858). According to the