Peking,
508
31st May, 1876.
My dear Sir Thomas,
Having heard through
M. Seward an
interesting account of the good work which Hongkong is doing for China by the education of some thousands of Children in the schools of the colony, it gives me additional pleasure to learn through you that a society has been formed at Hongkong for the preparation of useful books in the Chinese language. — It is thus that the Gibraltar of the Chinese coast
may be
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