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English Letter of Rong Hong to Dr. Sun Yat-sen on new government operations, etc.
January 2, 1912
Vertical length: 26.8cm, horizontal length: 20.5cm
Paper, printed copy, one piece, two pages. On January 2, 1912, Rong Hong sent a letter to Dr. Sun Yat-sen, congratulating on his election as Provisional President of Republican China, giving advice on the international situation that the new republican government faced, and military, financial and other issues, expressing his wish to make efforts, and recommending his son Rong Jinhuai to serve the government. Dr. Sun Yat-sen took this piece out of Nanjing when resigning from the office of Provisional President, and handed it to his eldest brother Sun Mei in Macao for keeping. It was later kept by Sun Mei's grandson Sun Man, and donated to us in December 1982.
Rong Hong (1828-1912), also known as Mengda or Chunfu, was from Nanping Village, Xiangshan County (today's Nanpng Town, Zhuhai City), one of the first batch of the Chinese children studying in the U.S. He supported political reform in his early years, participated in the uprising of the Independence Army in 1900, and was elected chairman. He later began to support Dr. Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary activities.
