Typescript letter signed Jacob T. Child, United States legation, Bangkok, Siam, to W.V. Byers [Byars], Esq., regarding the souvenirs sent to friends back home, Child’s experience of a lunar eclipse, beliefs of the Buddhists, Child’s journeys around Siam, and the big celebration in Bangkok involving the Duke of Southerland, the governor of Indo-China, Sir Andrew Clark, and the Portuguese minister to China and Japan, for which the king will give a dinner. Child also writes of various political issues back in the United States, like Norton being a “drift log politician, always waits for the water to rise and float him off and then swims with the current, hence he makes no enemies and when the proper time comes steps out serenely and with a smile says, ‘Here I am.’” (7 pages), 1888 Feb 13, Box: 2, Folder: 10. William Vincent Byars Papers, A0217. Missouri Historical Society Library and Research Center.

Typescript letter signed Jacob T. Child, United States legation, Bangkok, Siam, to W.V. Byers [Byars], Esq., regarding the souvenirs sent to friends back home, Child’s experience of a lunar eclipse, beliefs of the Buddhists, Child’s journeys around Siam, and the big celebration in Bangkok involving the Duke of Southerland, the governor of Indo-China, Sir Andrew Clark, and the Portuguese minister to China and Japan, for which the king will give a dinner. Child also writes of various political issues back in the United States, like Norton being a “drift log politician, always waits for the water to rise and float him off and then swims with the current, hence he makes no enemies and when the proper time comes steps out serenely and with a smile says, ‘Here I am.’” (7 pages), 1888 Feb 13, Box: 2, Folder: 10. William Vincent Byars Papers, A0217. Missouri Historical Society Library and Research Center. https://mohistory.mobiusconsortium.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/30909 Accessed September 19, 2024.