| Summary: | Include letters from Samuel Greg Rathbone to Rathbone Brothers' Liverpool offices concerning the work of Rathbone, Worthington and Co.[operators of Rathbone Brothers' Chinese branch houses ], in Canton, and from Thomas Moncrieff from Shanghai branch; including letters concerning agreements with F.B. Birley relating to closure of Canton branch and concerning separation of Canton and Shanghai branches (RP XXIV.3.5.90-91 etc); letter setting out key to keeping the accounts ledger (RP XXIV.3.5.17), and letters advising on general office management (RP XXIV.3.5.88-89); letters concerning Chinese markets in silk, tea and imported manufactured cloths, including letters enclosing small samples of printed cloths (RP XXIV.3.5.102, 107: writing almost entirely faded); financial notes; with letters from W.S. Brown and Thomas Moncrieff etc concerning smuggling (RP XXIV.3.5.3-8); additional letters from W.S. Brown, F.B. Birley and other correspondents. N.B. Many letters fragile |
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