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2 volumes in 1, large 4to, pp. iv (supplement), v-xxxiii (index), xxxiv-xxxvi (list of characters), xxxvii-xlvii (clan names), 3 (corrections and additions), [6] prefaces to the first and second edition, xviii (introduction), 696, [2], 697-1417, [1]; apparently lacking the title and the half-title to the first part; second title page after p. 696 is present; later half tan calf, gilt lettering on spine; most all of the preliminaries and terminals with early tape repairs in the foremargins, made necessary by dampstains; occasional light worming mostly confined to the margins, the first 2 leaves silked, a number of marginal tears and creases throughout, but the lexicon proper is clean and the binding, for all its mundanity, is sound. Binder's ticket of Sam Ying Co., Hong Kong. " . [A] new dictionary on the basis of the works published by Kanghi, Dr. Legge, and Dr. Williams." -- Preface to the 1st edition, dated 1877 (p. [5]). Ernst (or Ernest) Johann Eitel (1838-1908) was a German-born Protestant who became a notable missionary in China and civil servant in British Hong Kong, where he served as Inspector of Schools from 1879 to 1896. A compromised copy with plenty of faults, but with the early ownership signature of "Nell E[llen] Elliott / China Y.W.C.A. / Hong Kong." Ms. Elliott, born in Toronto on January 1st, 1889, was the secretary at the Y.W.C.A. and, as a member of the British Red Cross, later worked in the Medical Department of the Hong Kong government until Hong Kong fell to the Japanese in December 1941. She was interned at the Stanley Camp, a civilian internment camp in Hong Kong, and she was repatriated to Toronto in September 1943 when some of the Canadians at Camp Stanley became part of an exchange of interned citizens. On 14 September 1943 Teia Maru departed Yokohama carrying 80 American repatriates from Japan. Approximately 975 repatriates boarded at Shanghai on 19 September, 24 boarded at Hong Kong on 23 September (including Nell Elliott), 130 boarded at San Fernando, La Union on 26 September, 27 boarded at Saigon on 30 September, and others boarded at Singapore on 5 October. Teia Maru arrived at Mormugao, Goa on 15 October 1943 carrying 1,525 priests, nuns, protestant missionaries, and businessmen and their families. In Goa, Ms. Elliott and her fellow repatriates were transferred to the Gripsholm, a Swedish passenger liner under charter to the United States Department of State as a repatriation ship, carrying Japanese and German nationals to exchange points where she then picked up US and Canadian citizens to bring home to the USA and Canada. Nell Elliott was 57 when she returned home but very little is known of her after repatriation. Even her date of death does not appear to be recorded, but this dictionary, with its many careful repairs tells us a bit about her and her situation.
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