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Miscellaneous letters and papers concerning Benjamin Hobson, including two writings on opium.
1/1-2 Programme for the "Fifth meeting of the Canton Regatta Club", Macao, 11 June 1840. Printed on silk and enclosed in an envelope addressed to Dr Hobson, 5 The Grove, Hammersmith, W6, posted in London.
2 Advertisement for an engraving of the signing of the Treaty of Nanking on board H.M.S. Cornwallis 29 Aug 1842; with a list of 56 distinguished officials and military figures, whose portraits would be included. London, Jan 1845.
3/1-5 Copy of a letter from Benjamin Hobson M.D. to Sir James Bowring (1792-1872) plenipotentiary to China, commander in chief of Hong Kong. Canton, 6 Nov 1855. The letter concerns the problems and scale of opium addiction in China. 20 pp.
4 Draft paper on the opium trade in China. Sent by Benjamin Hobson M.D. to his father from Macao 1 une 1840. 26 pp.
5 Receipt for donation of Chinese treatises on medicine and physiology given by Benjamin Hobson M.D., to the Library of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Signed by John Hutton Balfour (1804-1888), Secretary, Edinburgh, 22 Jan 1861.
6/1-2 Chinese phrases with English translation: n.d. [Listed by Benjamin Hobson]
7 Newspaper cutting giving notice of the death of Benjamin Hobson. 16 Feb 1873.
8/1-2 Obituary of Benjamin Hobson M.D. from the Christian World [1873]. Enclosed in an envelope addressed to Miss Hobson, 14 Portland Terrace, St. Johns Wood.
9/1-2 Statement of the division and payments to be made from the estate of the Revd Benjamin Hobson M.D., 30 June 1876. Signed by William Nixon, Sheffield.
10 Lines written by [Benjamin Hobson M.D., 1871?] concerning his family.
11 Note addressed to the "Gentleman of the Chinese Hospital" concerning the departure of Dr Hobson for Hong Kong, signed J. W. C. Leary.
13 Letter from Benjamin Hobson M.D. to his sister Eliza. Braithwaite Rd., [Birmingham], 21 Aug 1869.
12 Letter from Robert Morrison Hobson to his sister Jane. Erinville, Saturday, 14 Jan [1893].

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