Bound at the end of this 1672 Regensburg edition of Schall von Bell’s Historica Relatio de Fide Orthodoxa in Sinae lies a five-page manuscript copy of a Jesuit field report written from Beijing in 1695 by Father Antonius Thomas Dequini, S.J. In the same clipped Latin cadence as the Litterae Annuae, it describes the daily labour of the Fathers at the Kangxi court — the conversions of Mandarins, the foundation of schools, the journeys through mountain provinces. It bridges the printed narrative of Schall’s persecution and rehabilitation to the confident, well-connected mission of the 1690s, a brief epistolary window into the Jesuit world when science, politics, and faith still spoke the same language.