Banyan City News / Ṳ̀ng Siàng Bó̤ (榕城报)

《榕城报》为美部会主办发行的教会报刊。

这份报纸是《榕城报》创刊号，由福州格致中学校长禆益知（Willard Livingstone Beard）所收藏。其曾孙的妻子将其扫描后发给我。从第4页“各国新闻”关于古田教案策划人押解到福州的报道可以知道这是1895年。负责该报文案编辑工作的是许高志（George Henry Hubbard）夫妇和弼理仁（Lyman Plimpton Peet）。这份报纸的用词比平话圣经更靠近口语，对清末福州语的研究提供了有价值的参考。

附信一篇

Hi George,
    Attached is that newsletter/newspaper that I told you about and a song in Chinese.  As we say in America when we don't understand what we are looking at,  "It's Greek to me!"  
    I'm wondering what the date is of the newspaper.  Is this the Foochow dialect?  Do you think it was for foreigners to practice their Chinese?
    ...
    Looking forward to finding out what all this "Greek" means!  Ha!   Jana

啊，老牛你回来了

还以为此处没人了，实在不错，但还不懂得读，不熟练。

不错的资料。能大体蒙懂一些……