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The New China Review
Editor - - - SAMUEL COULING, M.A, SHANGHAI.

Shanghai, Feb. 12, 1919.

Charles L. Freer, Esq.

Dear Sir,
I am sure you will regard my new venture with sympathy and I beg you to do what you can to make it succeed. It is a humble Review, undertaken as a labour of love, with no finance behind it or in front, but it can be very useful if it can be kept going. For its success it needs contributors and subscribers. I dont know what I can ask you to contribute, but you might get someone else to do so. For example an article on some part of your Chinese treasures, with reproduction of a picture, would be of great value. We cannot out here do the first class reproduction work that can be done for magazines over there; nor can I afford to have the best work that can be done here, at least until the Review begins to pay its cost; but what we can give the public, of text or picture, is of value to them. Then, it may be that a word from you would increase the number of subscribers. I have no agent in America, and have no way of getting the Review well before the public. I am sending out circulars as well as I can, and I think Dr. B. Laufer, whom I know, has done a little to help; but I fear the Review, like my Encyclopaedia Sinica will have a poor sale in the States. So I hope you will not only