| 1 | A report by China Youth Daily alleging that the Museum traded in antiquities is the most serious so far. | |
| 2 | The museum claims that although the letters were bought by museum staff with museum money, they never formed part of the official collection. | |
| 3 | Far less familiar are the passages from the Letters and from Crevecoeur's Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America in which he bewails the upheavals of the American Revolution. |