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Description: Letter from the Empress Dowager Helena Wang to the Pope, asking for help against the Manchu invaders. It is also written in the name of the Yongli Emperor's mother (Empress Dowager Maria Ma) and wife (Empress Consort Anna Wang), as well as his infant son, Crown Prince Constantine Zhu.
Title: Kircher-100-Elena-Wang-letter
Credit: Athanasius Kircher, "China monumentis: qua sacris quà profanis, ...", p. 101
Author: Empress Dowager Helena Wang (the widow of the father of the Yongli Emperor). Latin translation by Michael Boym and A. Koffler. Publication by A. Kircher
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