ジェームス・ディー・ローマン外七名 書翰控 渋沢栄一宛 （1909.10.30） （ジェームス・ディー・ローマン氏所蔵） (COPY)
To Baron Shibusawa,
President Honorary Commercial
Commissioners of Japan:
Shocked by the terrible event which has deprived Japan and the whole world of one of the foremost statesmen of the nineteenth or twentieth centuries, PRINCE HIROBUMI ITO, we, the American delegates accompanying your Commission on its tour through the United States, wish to express to you our heartfelt sympathy in your national bereavement.
Prince Ito's wonderful work in the reorganization of the Japanese Empire in the light of the experience of other nations, the valuable counsel he gave at critical periods in your history, and the readiness to serve his country which he manifested even in an arduous administrative position requiring the exercise of his highest constructive genius at a time of life when he might justly have clamied a well-earned rest, have made his an honored name throughout the world, and especially in the United States.
Even in this hour of sorrow we cannot but congratulate you and your nations on the splendid achievements which he was allowed to accomplish before death came to give him that repose which he would not take for himself while there was yet work to be done for his Sovereign and his country.
October 30th, 1909.
J. D. Lowman, Presidient Associated Chambers of
Commerce of the Pacific Coast
Charles H. Hyde, Tacoma Chamber of Commerce
O. M. Clark, Portland Chamber of Commerce
C. Herbt Moore, Spokane Chamber of Commerce
Roger S. Greene, U. S. Department of State
Jackson S. Elliot, U. S. Dept. of Commerce and Labor
J. Paul Goode, U. S. Department of Commerce and Labor
Frank R. Packham, Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
（『渋沢栄一伝記資料』第32巻p.269-270掲載）
参考リンク
- 都市詳細 フィラデルフヒヤ - 渡米実業団
〔渋沢栄一記念財団 渋沢栄一〕
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