Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (5 of 5)
Page 97
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Museum fits history is Proclaimed & found on experiment that the the door was open. The museum sets in garden surrounded by a high wall of white stone or bricks. The duties who had charge of the museum was like the others, pleasant & able to speak some English. All of these fathers were extremely gentle in their ways, smiled constantly & seemed perfect ladies far removed from the mystical world of strife. The Museum is a good sized 2 story build In the main room was any engraving of Pierre Herde the founder of the museum