Lot 23

Kuang Hsu (Guangxu) Year 26 (1900) Large official cover from Ministry of War to Yu Liansan, the Viceroy of Hunan, stating “Confidential” and “Extra Emergency”. Given the urgency and date of this cover, the content was probably about the Boxer Rebellion. Hunan was under Mutual Defense Pact of the Southeastern Provinces by that time.

光緒二十六年（1900）大型公文封，由兵部寄湖南巡撫，寫有“密報”及“加急由馬上飛遞”。由年份和緊急程度推測，內容可能與義和團有關。當時湖南為東南互保之省份之一。