Documents, papers and newspaper cuttings relating to the career of Horatio Nelson Lay, and a few miscellaneous family papers

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Title
Documents, papers and newspaper cuttings relating to the career of Horatio Nelson Lay, and a few miscellaneous family papers
Date
1845-1937
Copyright and Source Archive
British Library
Document Type
  • Official Papers
Description
From the Lay Papers, volume II. Includes miscellaneous papers of Lay's family and descendants; a translation by Lay of a Chinese official document, and two translations by Sir Thomas Wade; miscellaneous personal papers; cuttings and extracts from various British and Chinese newspapers; deed of covenant between Lay and Messrs Emile Erlanger and Co. for the customs loan to the Japanese government in 1870; two copies of a memorandum regarding British policy towards Afghanistan, Russia and Persia 1873; draft of a pamphlet entitled 'Chinese History in Opium'; printed paper entitled 'Did Lord Elgin for Opium on China in 1858?' regarding an address Lay gave on the subject.