渋沢栄一書翰 ジェームス・ディー・ローマン宛 (1909.11.10) (ジェームス・ディー・ローマン氏所蔵) (COPY)
St. Louis, Missouri, Nov. 10, 1909.
Mr. J. D. Lowman,
President, Associated Chambers of Commerce of the Pacific Coast.
Dear Sir:-
On behalf of the Honorary Commercial Commission of Japan, I beg to acknowledge receipt of the communication signed by you and other American delegates traveling with us, recording your heartfelt sympathy with us in our national sorrow for the tragic death of Prince Ito.
Please accept our sincere thanks for this graceful act on your part. Nothing strengthens the feeling of common brotherhood of mankind more effectively than participation in each other's grief and sorrow. In this sense, as much as for the sake of the memory of the great statesman just taken from us, we are sincerely gratified to receive in the moment of national mourning expressions of sympathy from so many influential citizens of the United States.
I need hardly assure you that none has been more gratifying than that from you and the other gentlemen to whom we owe so much and with whom it has been our good fortune to form such close ties of friendship.
I remain,
Yours very truly,
(signed) E. Shibusawa
Chairman
(『渋沢栄一伝記資料』第32巻p.270掲載)
参考リンク
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http://www.shibusawa.or.jp/eiichi/1909/city/c44_stlouis.html