Excerpt from Summer Greetings From Japan It was truly a meeting of kindred spirits, a fresh proof that the highest thought knows no distinction of race, and a new link in the chain binding East and West; and I know that to many besides myself, with the personal sense of loss there came an intense regret that the interpretation of Ja pan to the West for which we had hoped could never be given. In giving these letters to his friends, you are doing all that can be done to make up this loss. They will go east as well as west, showing to all who read them with what magnificent force will triumphed over body in those last weeks of labor; not for ambition, but to interest, to strengthen, to uplift in future seasons those to whom Mr. Sheldon had devoted his life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.