ext_2789 ([identity profile] moon-custafer.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] sovay 2016-09-04 02:22 am (UTC)

He was working on a book about the foreign concession at Kobe (which was finally published ()a few years ago.) I now know more about the adulteration of teas for the 19th century American market than I really need to.

Newitter, so far as I can tell, was enthusiastic but not exactly a born diplomat, and he kept getting into fights with the British consul over social events, which is probably why he was recalled, possibly to the disappointment of Westerners resident at Kobe who he'd saved from boredom. His successor almost immediately wrote home asking what to do with the vast supply of postage stamps Newitter had left behind.

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