China and Japan (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from China and Japan

Lest, perchance, this little volume come into the hands of some who are not familiar with the circumstances that called it forth, it may not be out of place here to give its raison d'tre, and to explain, at least in part, the apparently disconnected form in which the book appears.

On November 6, 1900, Miss Emma Penton Kendrick, of Louisville, Kentucky, was married to Doctor John D. Trawick, of Nashville, Tennessee. They left immediately for San Francisco, from which place they sailed for their new home in China. Doctor Trawick is an associate surgeon in the Methodist Hospital at Soochow. Her letters from this far-off Eastern land were so very interesting that many friends requested that they be given to the public, and some of them were accordingly published in a leading newspaper of Louisville, her native city. Many complimentary things were said of them, and many requests were made that they be put in a more permanent form. Some few of these are printed as an appendix to this book. It is in response to these requests that this little volume appears.

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