CHINA THROUGH WESTERN EYES
Manuscript Records of Traders, Travellers, Missionaries & Diplomats

Part 8: Diaries, Notebooks and Writings of Rewi Alley (1897-1987) from the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Technical Note

Our microform publications are prepared and produced in accordance with recommended and established guide-lines for the production of microform of superior quality. These conform to the recommendations of the standard guides to good microforming and micropublishing practice.

Attention should be drawn to the nature of the original material. This comprises diaries, travel notes, manuscripts, correspondence, articles, typescripts, and other papers. Most of the material is in extremely good condition. A few items feature problems common with archival collections of this type, for instance letters and papers with small amounts of showthrough, documents with curvature at the centre, or items with minor staining, wear and tear, or those written in pencil or in a variety of different inks. Every effort has been made to minimise these difficulties and some openings are microfilmed more than once in an attempt to bring out all the features of the original. These original characteristics present difficulties of image and contrast which stringent tests and variations of density cannot entirely overcome.

The most responsible care has been exercised by NZ Micrographic Services in the filming of this unique collection and every effort has been made to ensure that this microform publication meets the standards established by the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).

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