李鸿章是晚清时期重要的政治人物,为洋务运动前期的代表,同时也是淮军的首领。他从事政治军事活动40年,对晚清中央国策的制定起着举足轻重的作用。武汉博物馆藏李鸿章书信一通,系李鸿章写给其淮系僚属刘瑞芬的回信,近期首次对外公开,具有很高的文献价值。结合光绪初年的相关史实,分析信中涉及的内政、外交及国内外局势,可考察19世纪70年代的中外政治态势,探究晚清变局下李鸿章为挽救国运所做出的努力,以及他的真实心理。 Li Hung-chang was an important political figure in the late Qing Dynasty. He was a representative of the early stage of the Westernization Movement and was also the leader of the Huai Army. He engaged in political and military activities for 40 years and played a decisive role in formulating the national policy of the Central Government in the late Qing Dynasty. Li Hongzhang, a collection of the Wuhan Museum of Letters and Letters, is a reply written by Li Hongzhang to Liu Ruifen, a member of his Huai bureaucracy, which was recently made public for the first time and has a high reference value. Based on the relevant historical facts of the first year of Guangxu, analyzing the internal affairs, diplomacy and the situation at home and abroad involved in the letter, we can examine the political situation in China and other countries in the 1870s and explore the efforts made by Li Hongzhang to save the country during the late Qing Dynasty. Real psychology