Includes: Kerr, J.G. The Chinese Question Analyzed. A Lecture Delivered in the Hall of the Young Men's Christian Association, November 12th, 1877... With an Appendix on Chinese Emigration. 24 pp. Cowan p.328. 1877. * [Brooks, Benjamin S.] The Invalidity of the "Queue Ordinance" of the City and County of San Francisco. Opinion of the Circuit Court of the United States, for the District of California, in Ho Ah Kow vs Matthew Nunan, delivered July 7th, 1879. 43 pp. Cowan p.74. 1879. Together, 2 volumes. Original printed wrappers. First Editions.

Two pamphlets relating to the increasingly toxic relationship between Californians of European descent and those from China. The first was written by a doctor who had lived 23 years in China, and is supportive of the Chinese side of the conflict; the second relates to the San Francisco law requiring the cutting of hair, and thus the Chinese pigtails or queues, of those incarcerated in S.F. jails - it was ruled unconstitutional in the court decision. Provenance: Collection of Margaret Gee.