"On the nine rolls of this microcopy are reproduced nine volumes that consist, for the most part, of despatches addressed to the Department of State by United States consular officials at Chefoo, China, between March 10, 1863, and August 2, 1906. These despatches, with their enclosures, are arranged in chronological order. The contents are registered on the first roll of the microcopy." ... "The records reproduced in this microcopy are part of the records in the National Archives designated as Record Group 59, General Records of the Department of State." -- p. 2.