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Title China Books, Consisting of Copies of Minutes and Letters of Lord Auckland, Written to the British Plenipotentiaries and Commanders, etc., in China during the "Opium War" in 1840-1842. Part 1, 7 April 1840 - 8 October 1841, f. 175
Reference Add 37715 - 37717
Library The British Library
Date 1840-1841
Description The letters and minutes, concerning the trade of opium and the associated conflicts, are addressed to the following: Captain Charles Elliot and Admiral Sir George Elliot, Naval Commander-in-Chief, acting as Joint-Plenipotentiaries. Admiral Sir James John Gordon Bremer, Naval Commander-in-Chief before Admiral Elliot; General Sir Hugh Gough, Commander of the Land Forces; Sir Henry Pottinger, who superseded Captain Elliot as Plenipotentiary after the unsuccessful preliminary treaty in January, 1841; Admiral Sir William Parker, who succeeded Admiral Elliot in November 1841, and others.
Document Type Manuscript, Correspondence
Primary Commodity Opium
Theme Trade and Commerce; Politics and Empire
Keywords climate, commerce, consumer, consumption, profit, drugs, conflict, empire
Region East Asia, Europe
Places Hong Kong; India; UK; England; Burma; China
Copyright The British Library Board. All rights reserved. Licence no: 5386