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To Henry Sargent Codman
| Dear Harry, |
6th Feby. 1892. 3.30 P.M. |
I enclose the letter to Burnham about boats, thinking that you may as well give it to him with a view to immediate conversation on the subject. After which if the Japanese Commission is still in Chicago, I want you to press them to send boats and bamboo—bamboo and boats. Pleasure boats, and fishing boats fully equipped with families living on them. The pleasure boats, (yachts,) with tubs of flowers on their quarter deck, as the Chinese boats of the class had that I saw at Canton.
I think that you can have a useful interview with the Japs. Tell them that the trade in plants might be vastly enlarged. Permanently so. With their cheap labor and patient handicraft in such matters they can export much at lower rates than we can grow them for, and we would have them take this opportunity to show what they can do. Especially in all varieties of bamboo especially those hardy in North Japan.
Yours Truly
F.L.O.
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