Tuesday, 23 May 2023

Grandmamma's Letters from Japan (by Mrs. Mary Pruyn, 1877)

Grandmamma's Letters from Japan. By Mrs. Mary Pruyn. BOSTON: JAMES H. EARLE, PUBLISHER, 20 HAWLEY STREET. 1877.

IV. Children and Young Ladies coming to the Home in Yokohama

IX. Every-Day Blessings.—A Great Religious Festival.— Big Sunday.—Chinese Burying-Ground.—Strange Ceremonies

XIX. Christmas in Yokohama.—Christmas Tree.—Popping Corn.—A Merry Company


References:

  1. The American Merchant Experience in Nineteenth Century Japan By Kevin C. Murphy (Routledge, 2003).
  2. Hamish Ion's American Missionaries, Christian Oyatoi, and Japan, 1859-73 (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2009), pp.225-
  3. The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volumes 11-13, p. 164


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