NOTES
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From manuscripts in the John Fryer Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
The title on the holograph was added in pencil at the top of the page and underlined; a pencil was used to cross out the salutation, probably at the time when the title was added prior to typing many years later. In transcribing this material I have followed the holograph document. Minor changes have been made to bring punctuation and use of numbers into conformity with modern usage and to improve readability. Editorial additions are in square brackets. Fryer tended to write run-on paragraphs; a caret indicates where long paragraphs have been broken up. Colons and semicolons are not easily distinguished in the holograph; Fryer was inconsistent in his use of the apostrophe.
1
Fryer mentions below that it has been a fortnight since his arrival. This would place the date for this letter around August 13, 1861.
4
A sketch of the general plan of St. Paul's College, drawn in ink and tinted with watercolors by Fryer, accompanies the holograph document. See Plans in text, redrawn from Fryer's sketch plan.
4 Fryer generally wrote "&" in his handwritten letters, but converted these to "etc." and "and" in his typewritten transcriptions.
Fryer became engaged to Anna Roleston of Chudleigh, Devon, before embarking for Hong Kong,
The Second Anglo-Chinese War, 1858-1860, which led to a stoppage of much of the trade of Hong Kong with China to 1861.
# This is one of the rare examples of Fryer's use of hyperbole; other examples can be detected below.
HI
The Reverend George Smith, Bishop of Victoria.
Rev. William Roberts Beach arrived in Canton in 1853 sponsored by the Wesleyan Missionary Society. He joined the Church of England in 1855. In 1857 he became Warden of St. Paul's College and Chaplain to the Bishop of Victoria. His other appointments included a period in Macao as Missionary Chaplain in 1857, and service as Chaplain to the Forces under Sir Hope Grant in 1861. He was appointed Colonial Chaplain and Canon of St. John's Cathedral by the Rev. Alford, who in 1867 became "Lord Bishop of the see of Victoria, and Warden (for the Church Missionary Society) of St. Paul's College'. (see E. J Bitel, Europe in China, Hong Kong: Kelley and Walsh, 1895. p. 466.) Alford was Principal of Highbury Training College, London, at the time when John Fryer was enlisted for work at St. Paul's College.
|| This was the College in Staunton Street, later renamed St. Saviour's (1863), and then (1875) St. Joseph's.
זן
Fryer travelled to Hong Kong on the sailing ship Prince Alfred.
Published in Volume 29 (1989) of the Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.
14
See Plans in Text.
15
See Plates 2-4.
16. Charles R. Alford; see note 10.
דן
* "animals" standard English school master-speech for "schoolboys".
श्र
Possibly the British Museum.
NOTES
167
From manuscripts in the John Fryer Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
The title on the holograph was added in pencil at the top of the page and underlined; a pencil was used to cross out the salutation, probably at the time when the title was added prior to typing many years later. In transcribing this material I have followed the holograph document. Minor changes have been made to bring punctuation and use of numbers into conformity with modern usage and to improve readability. Editorial additions are in square brackets. Fryer tended to write run-on paragraphs; a caret indicates where long paragraphs have been broken up. Colons and semicolons are not easily distinguished in the holograph; Fryer was inconsistent in his use of the apostrophe.
1
Fryer mentions below that it has been a fortnight since his arrival. This would place the date for this letter around August 13, 1861.
4
A sketch of the general plan of St. Paul's College, drawn in ink and tinted with watercolors by Fryer, accompanies the holograph document. See Plans in text, redrawn from Fryer's sketch plan.
4 Fryer generally wrote "&" in his bandwritten letters, but converted these to "etc". and "and" in his typewritten transcriptions.
Fryer became engaged to Anna Roleston of Chudleigh, Devon, before embarking for Hong KoE,
The Second Anglo-Chinese War, 1858-1860, which lead to a stoppage of much of the trade of Hong Kong with China to 1861.
# This is one of the rare examples of Fryer's use of hyperbole; other examples can be
detected below.
HI
The Reverend George Smith, Bishop of Victoria.
Rev. William Roberts Beach arrived in Canton in 1853 sponsored by the Wesleyan Missionary Society. He joined the Church of England in 1855. In 1857 he became Warden of St. Paul's College and Chaplain to the Bishop of Victoria. His other appointments included a period in Macao as Missionary Chaplain in 1857, and service as Chaplain to the Forces under Sir Hope Grant in 1861. He was appointed Colonial Chaplain and Canon of St. John's Cathedral by the Rev. Alford, who in 1867 became "Lord Bishop of the see of Victoria, and Warden (for the Church Missionary Society) of St. Paul's College'. (see E. J Bitel, Europe in China, Hong Kong: Kelley and Walsh, 1895. p. 466.) Alford was Principal of Highbury Training College, London, at the time when John Fryer was enlisted for work at St. Paul's College.
|| This was the College in Staunton Street, later renamed St. Saviour's (1863), and then (1875) St. Joseph's.
זן
Fryer travelled to Hong Kong on the sailing ship Prince Alfred.
Published in Volume 29 (1989) of the Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Soiety.
14
See Plans in Text.
15
See Plates 2-4.
16. Charles R. Alford; see note 10.
דן
* "animals" standard English school master-speech for "schoolboys".
श्र
Possibly the British Museum.
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