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...weeks ago, Raymond Lum, an assistant librarian at the East Asian library, was in the stacks looking at a missionary journal when he discovered two sheets of folded paper inside...
...Lum believes the parched and partly torn pages, dated in the late 1790's by a British diplomat. Lord Macartney, are the preliminary notes of Macartney's visit to China in the late 18th century. A full manuscript about the trip was eventually published...
Macartney's trip was the first British effort to form political relations with the Far Eastern nation. The diplomat was sent to China by King George III of England in 1792, according to the latest issue of a Harvard Library newsletter which reports Lum's find...
...Lum prepared a rough transcription of Macartney's notes, which are composed on both sides of two sheets...
...Lum said yesterday that the notes "have probably been hidden away inside the 19th century missionary journal since the time that the latter came to Harvard...