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Isabella Lucy Bishop to Charlotte Mary Yonge
MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND ART,
Edinburgh, 1st.July 1893

MS UCLA collection 100 box 119/2

Nestorian Tablet in China

The Museum possesses a rubbing of the inscription on this tablet, presented in 1886 by the Rev. James Stevenson, of the China Inland Mission.

In the Museum Library may also be seen:—

‘The Middle Kingdom,’ by Dr S. Wells Williams: London, 1883. A translation of the tablet is given in Vol. II., pp. 277-285, with other information.

>‘The Nestorian Monument … in Shen-hsî, China … with the Chinese Text of the Inscription, a Translation, and Notes, and a Lecture on the Monument.’ By Prof. Legge, Oxford. London, 1888

There is a paragraph on the present condition of the tablet in the Times of 30th May, 1893.

The Elms Houghton Huntingdon

July 8

Dear Miss Yonge,
Sir Murdoch Smith has kindly sent me the enclosed. I saw the translation of the inscription. It is very long, high flown and mystical, but very interesting.

I am so glad that your friend was pleased with the stamps.

In gt haste

Yours very Sincerely,
Isabella L. Bishop

Cite this letter


The Letters of Charlotte Mary Yonge(1823-1901) edited by Charlotte Mitchell, Ellen Jordan and Helen Schinske.

URL to this Letter is: https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/yonge/3223/isabella-lucy-bishop-to-charlotte-mary-yonge

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