Title
Remittance letter with envelope delivered to Swatow from Singapore, Robertson Quay
Year/Period
7th February 1967
Region
Swatow, China
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Pls refer to individual parts for measurement
Accession No.
2024-00663
Collection of
Credit Line
Collection of Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall
This is a Chinese remittance letter dated to 1967. It was delivered through qiaopi (侨批), a private mail delivery system established by early Chinese immigrants in the early 19th century to deliver money and family letters to their home villages in China. This letter was delivered from a remittance house that was directly connected to the Swatow remittance network. The sender’s address is listed to be at Robertson Quay, which is written in its local Chinese name of hou ba yao (后巴窑, “back swamp”).
