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The General Offices， S.N.R.，Shanghai，29th January， 1912.
H.E.Sun Yat Sen，President of the Provisional Government，NANKING.
Your Excellency，
BAILIE COLONIZATION SCHEME.
In continuation of my previous letters on the above subject I have the honour to extend to your Excellency on behalf of the Shanghai Committee for the above (a complete list of the members of which is enclosed herewith）a most cordial invitation to be present at the first performance in aid of the scheme at the Lyceum Theatre here on Monday February 12th.My Committee are well aware how difficult it would be for your Excellency to leave Nanking at the present time and were this an ordinary charity performance would not think of making such a request.
But I have the honour to point out to your Excellency that my Committee represents all the leading Consuls General， Bank Managers， Business Houses， Clubs， Doctors， Lawyers， the Chambers of Commerce， Chinese and Foreign and the principal Social leaders of Shanghai who will all be present on the occasion and I venture to represent to Your Excellency what an excellent impression would be made in Shanghai by such a demonstration of Your Excellency's interest in the cause of Famine Relief.
The Managing Director of the Shanghai Nanking Railway Taotai Chung Min Yu and the General Manager， Mr.A.W.U.Pope CIE would run a special train for Your Excellency， with dining car attached， leaving Nanking about 2 p.m.and returning after the performance so that Your Excellency need only be absent from Nanking for one afternoon.
My Committee further venture to hope that Your Excellency may be able to see your way to have some public announcement made at this entertainment of what assistance your Government will be able to give to this scheme of Famine Relief.
The opportunity for doing so could not be better and I feel confident that a most excellent impression would be created in Shanghai.Dr.Macklin， who is already known to Your Excellency and who is a very active member of the Nanking Committee，has been requested to hand this letter to Your Excellency and to furnish any further partioulars that Your Excellency may wish for.
I have also ventured to entrust Dr.Macklin with the 100 Programmes mentioned in one of my previous letters in case Your Excellency will be so good as to autograph them as requested.
I have the honour， to be，Your Obedient Servant，
H.Cooper
Hon.Sec.Shanghai B.C.S.Committee.
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上海华洋义赈会总部，1912年1月29日
致中华民国临时大总统孙逸仙阁下，南京。
阁下：
裴义理拓殖计划
在此前连续的几封关于此计划的信中，我有幸代表上海义赈会（一个完整的成员名单随函附上）最诚挚地邀请您出席2月12日星期一在兰心大剧院的第一场演出。义赈会很了解目前让您离开南京是很困难的。按理一个普通的义演不该提出这样的要求。但我有幸向阁下指出：义赈会代表了所有著名的总领事、银行经理、商行、俱乐部、医生、律师、商会、中外人士，以及将要出席的上海主要的社会贤达。我冒昧向阁下提出：这将在上海留下一个表明阁下关注赈灾事业的好印象。
沪宁铁路局总办钟文耀、车务总管濮爱德会为阁下开行一列带餐车的专列，大约下午两点钟从南京出发，演出后返回，这样阁下只需离开南京一个下午的时间。
义赈会还希望您有可能在招待会发表公开讲话，表明您的政府将为此赈灾计划提供怎样的援助。
我可以确信，这是再好不过的机会，让您在上海留下最好的印象。玛克林博士，您认识他，他是本会南京分会的积极分子，被要求带这封信给您，并了解阁下可能提供的任何进一步的特别帮助。
同时我也很冒昧地让玛克林博士带100份计划书，这在我以往的信中提到过，请阁下慨然签名。
上海华洋义赈会干事库柏 谨呈
（背面作了如下的英文批示：“请温宗尧代表出席。”）