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

Shanghai, April 19, 1919

Charles L. Freer, Esq.,
Detroit, Mich.

Dear Sir,
I have much pleasure in sending you a copy of the first number of this Review, about which I took the liberty of writing to you some time ago. In spite of many blemishes, it is not a bad piece of work to have been produced in the Far East and in these difficult times.

I venture to ask for your encouragement in the form of a subscription at present, having no connection with the States, I have not been able to bring the Review much before the public there: Dr. Laufer of Chicago is the only person with whom I correspond. I enclose a list of the present subscribers in America--it is very short. No doubt more names will come in as a result of my having sent many circulars and, by this [[strikethrough]] mai [[/strikethrough]] mail, some sample copies. It seems to me that both this magazine and my Encyclopaedia Sinica, which is advertised therein, should be put in a great many public libraries over there.

To cover the bare costs of production I must have 150 more names on the subscribers' list. There are no office expenses, as I do the work myself in the intervals of earning my bread and butter, typing every article for the printer (on a borrowed typewriter), writing in Chinese

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