Traveler's and Writer's Sourcebook, circa January-March, 1911, Number 4

[crossed out text] E K [Graton?] [end crossed out text]

Complaint Editor

Reprint 2 [crossed out] M [end crossed out] Confucius 1 [crossed out] M [end crossed out] Advtrs 500 Editors 500 [Frds?] & for filing

2[crossed out] M [end crossed out] "Home [Agn?]"

Some Oriental lessons for Occidental Folk

Some Old World Farming for a New World nation

Missions in the Orient

The Colored Man in [Asia?] & [???] [???]

Home Again I send you greetings

(In Scr Fdshp (chp

Raleigh, N.C. March 10, 1911 PS

I tried several kinds of Travl abroad: A Donkey in China ^(A) Rickshaw in Jap Ch & [???] Island An Elpht in India But [crossed out text] say nc saddle horse: Best of all [end crossed out] Horsebk in NC is Best of all

[pencil sketch] [vertical rectangle with three vertical lines drawn through it] [end pencil sketch]

[text to right of pencil sketch] King. Ws 19 whn gvn Part on P14 [end text to right of pencil sketch]

A Saying of Confucius (Brn-BC; Died BC.) [crossed out text] This saying of Co [end crossed out text] This [???] shows a fans [max?] of Cnfcs as writtn in Chinese chrctrs [crossed out] by [end crossed out] for Mr. CHP by a ^(lineal) descdt (of [left margin note] th [???] [8?]) [end left margin note] of the great Ortl sage ^(Whn Mr. P met in Pkg) Read from left to right & from top to bottom, after the Chinese fashion, the translation reads as follows:

"The Southerner"

R F Beasley

[???] Control

$10000 Stock; $10,000 Bonds

10% [Equi.?]

Hon Chas A Towne SS "Franconia"

John [Goodns?] acting for Hanna & McKinley (1896) offered me $50,000 and the senatorship from Minn., and then $100,000 and the Senatorship if I would remain in the Rep Party

[crossed out] my wife before this offer had [end crossed out] Rdg Victor Hugo's "Story of a Crime" My wife a la Victor Hugo's

My little sister on deathbed with Towne banner in her night [dress?] while Dem Conv met Denver, 1908

Bryan has grown crafty

Roosevelt, 1898, urged McKinley & then urged Cabinet to sink Spanish fleet before