- FondsPR-1344 - Crease family fonds
- SeriesMS-0055 - Crease family correspondence
- Sub-seriesMS-0055.A - Henry Pering Pellew Crease records
- FileMS-0055.3.28 - Henry Pering Pellew Crease miscellaneous papers
- ItemMS-0055.3.28.1-17 - From John Frederick Crease describing state of affairs with the British forces in Canton including a descriptive index of 54 photographs of scenes of China
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- ItemE-00914 - [Canton, China] 4. Just inside the entrance door of Howqua' the great Tea Merchants' Gardens at Fa-tee - about 4 miles north west from this on the other side of the river. The offr. [officer] on the steps is the French P.M.O. if you turn to the left on entering you come upon No. 5.
- ItemE-00915 - [Canton, China] This gives you the ornamental water, the little summer house in the centre is where the friends of Hang How-qua retire to in hot weather to drink tea; I am upon the bridge leading to it, wh. is very rickety so I fancy it is seldom visited, the Inscription over the door on the board is Sow-chuck-qua wh. means I believe hot Flower house, the two Chinamen on the left are my servants whom I've drilled to sit steady, by going round where they are and looking back you see on the left and right No. 6 and 7.
- ItemE-00916 - [Canton, China] Nos. 6 and 7 take in the entrance to the Gardens, and part of the Main Building of which there are 2 inches (on paper) missing on account of a large tree, on turning to the right of No. 4 picture (the entrance where there is a blotch) and standing under the roof on the extreme left of (No.5) we get a view -
- ItemE-00917 - [Canton, China] 8) Capt. Martineau's house, the man on the right is another officer, on the left is Martineau himself.
- ItemE-00918 - [Canton, China] 8. Gives us another ornamental water and the road leading to the Gardens beyond. The Chinaman peeping from behind the tree close by the bridge, and admire the trees going out from the side of the wall - by walking across the bridge along the road by them, turning sharp round the far corner of Pond and looking back we have No. 9
- ItemE-00919 - [Canton, China] 9. Gives part of the house where I stood when I photographed No. 8, near wh. spot are collected a group of Offrs. taking it easy and watching my proceedings - the man standing up, Reevely by name, is the Garrison theatrical genius and flanking him Williams and Crawford of ours, the trellis work in this picture is not bad -
- ItemE-00920 - [Canton, China] 10) The trunk of a large tree in the Park of Commr. Zamsun [?] - remark how the roots are half way up the trunk. Under this tree the first English man who died in the city is buried - Richard Hincks
- ItemE-00921 - [Canton, China] The house we tiffined in, in the Gardens, the figures are indistinct because they moved however you get their back views in the looking glass behind, examine with a magnifying glass the basket at the foot of the steps on the right and take out a patent for it, it comes in 4 pieces, 1 over the other , confined by the two upright pieces of bamboo wh. form the handle. The two Ghosts on the right are Sepoys whom the Col. threatened to make real Ghosts of for moving ...
- ItemE-00922 - [Canton, China] 11) Part of Joss House where 47th B.N.I. are quartered, the Chinese Inscription over gate is Sing-Chum-Sein. Sing is a literary joss, Chum his grandfather - Seing means House - look well at the roof and the small recesses on each side of the doorway. The figures are all brightly colored and glazed this Joss house is about as good a one as there is in the city - the black orderly in front I got to sit still by grinning at him
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