Responses

RESPONSES With reference to the Public Record Office microfilm project: There have been expressions of interest but no offers of cash. The two major suggestions were firstly that a smaller sum be used to arrange and index the documents so that scholars could use them easily; secondly that ideally one major U.S. library or center should get a set of the negatives and then make prints available to interested parties. ***************** We are very grateful to you for making known the Morrison Project through the short note which appeared on pp. 1-3 of Vol. 1, No. 4, but which was not intended for publication and we did not know that it was to be published. Your readers might be interested to know that since we wrote that note over a year ago we have successfully obtained some funds to enable us to proceed with the work which we hope will be completed as scheduled. Yours faithfully, Lo Hui-min The Australian National University Dept. of Far Eastern History, The Research School of Pacific Studies Box 4 P.O. Canberra A. C, T. ***************** The list of topics in which I am interested, and which appeared in the November 1966 issue of CSWT are bound together by my dissertation topic on the relations between the Chinese provincial authorities and Liu Yung-fu and - 23 - his Black Flag Army in the 1880's. The dissertation will probably center rather narrowly on the period when Ch'ing government troops, Vietnamese troops and various more or less irregular forces like Liu's Hui Ch'i Chün were opposing the French attempt to occupy Tonkin, however I am quite definitely interested in the earlier period, hence my question about the bandit-suppression campaigns conducted by Chinese troops in Tonkin, especially in the 1870's, and the other subjects I mentioned in my earlier letter. Liu Yung-fu is the thread which connects the rather mixed batch mentioned in tibe November CSWT. Sincerely, Ella S. Laffey, 1725 Wells St. Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104 Catherine Yin-ying Mayo Dept. of History University of Hong Kong Hong Kong is preparing a Ph. D. on Hung Jen-kan and would appreciate hearing from others working on the same period. 24 - ...