Dear Mr. Tanabe, Mr. Ochiai, and Mr. Otani,

As a friend of Lafcadio Hearn’s, and for that and other good reasons, as a friend of yours, I am taking the liberty of saying that in your "Hearn Memorial Translations" you are "running true to form" — a thing to be confidently expected of course — in the proof you give that his whole-souled affection for his Japanese