A week or two later Hearn was able to announce to his dear sister, Elizabeth, that he was going to become a country schoolmaster in Japan.
On several occasions Professor Chamberlain held out the kindly hand of comradeship to Lafcadio; to him Hearn owed his subsequent appointment at the Tokyo University.
For five or six years the two men were bound together in a close communion of intellectual enthusiasms and mutual interests, as is easy to see by the wonderful correspondence recently published. To him and to Paymaster Mitchell McDonald, Lafcadio dedicated his "Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan."
to the friends
whose kindness alone rendered possible
my sojourn in the orient
PAYMASTER MITCHELL McDONALD, U.S.N.
and
BASIL HALL CHAMBERLAIN, ESQ.
emeritus professor of philology and