Box 132

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1 sheet ([4] p.) WEG apprenticed at Carrow, Thibant [?] & Co. Jewelers starting at age fifteen.

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n.l. 1 sheet ([2] p.) Incomplete.

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3 sheets ([10] p.) WEG notes that Japan is rapidly changing. WEG is paid by the Imperial Government now. Sketch of the neighborhood where he is living in Fukui.

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n.l. Celebrates Christmas Eve with Japanese boys. Lively celebration of birth of a great Buddhist priest born 500 years ago. Announces he'll go to teach in Yedo. No closing. 3 sheets ([11] p.) with envelope [not contemporary]

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Justifies how he was transferred to Yedo and that Fukui did not want him to leave. Is sending a box home as soon as roads are clear of snow. Pupils, officers and citizens bid WEG farewell. No signature. 3 sheets ([12] p.)

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2 sheets (8 p.) Describes journey from Fukui to Yokohama on the Tokaido highway. A church is organizing in Yokohama and WEG wants MCG to send his old sermons to be rewritten. The Japanese government is putting forth its first effort to educate women and the salary will be $1200. WEG encourages MCG and others to contemplate the opportunity.

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n.l. 1 sheet ([4] p.)

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1 sheet ([2] p.) Describes his new house in Yedo and the steps that he is taking to furnish it appropriately. Will be getting a new interpreter soon. Sends $221 in gold home to the family. Laments the time that it takes for letters to travel to Japan.

Scope and Contents: [No closing.] 1 sheet (4 p.) Preaches at the Union Church in Yokohama and attends Bible study classes with Japanese students as well. Visits the grave of the Forty-Seven Ronin. WEG has received an offer from H.H. Bancroft & Co. to compose a series of school textbooks. He is concentrating on writing a primer and speller as well as first, second and third class readers and textbooks on geography, chemistry and physics. WEG notes the small English-speaking social...

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1 sheet ([2] p.) Finished his first reader of the "New Japan Series." Socializes with members of the American Scientific Commission and Dr. Muller, the German physician who attends the Mikado. Sends to New Brunswick for a teacher of Chemistry to replace WEG in Fukui.