The diary of Edmund Heller, October 9, 1917-January 12, 1918 : covering his return trip from the First Asiatic Expedition led by Roy Chapman Andrews of the American Museum of Natural History
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10 Last night & toots in electric tram + was dined with Turner, King of the Japan Advertiser & 2 other Americans, an engineer & a business man. At the They live in a Japanese home of small size & have Japanese servants to do the household work. These men libs, the Japanese & have acquired, a movable vocabulary in a few months of Japanese but are not able to get beyond this point without much study. At the Advertiser, Mr. & met the Editor, J. Leisher an American who has lived in China & Japan for a score of years. We visited the Imperial hotel but found only some 15 or 20 guests, the place presenting much life as the Grand Hotel of Yokohama