Letters of a Japanese schoolboy ("Hashimura Togo")

by Wallace Irwin

Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy

I
OUR NOBLE ALLIES

San Francisco, November 4th.

To Esteemed Excellency the Editor of what is much widely read New York newspaper.

Dear Sir—I am a Japanese Schoolboy age 35 years & I come to this Free Country for some following reason:

1. To save up money for old age.

2. To learn so much I can.

3. To wait on table 14 hours Daily at Boarding house of Mrs. C. W. O’Brien, honourable lady.