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EAST MEETS BRAHMIN

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20050410
Author:Joshua Glenn

IN JUNE OF 1871, Cambridge-based poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow received a telegram from his 27-year-old son Charley, then in San Francisco. "Have suddenly decided to set sail for Japan today," it read. The younger Longfellow had joined the wave of American globe- trotters who in the late 1860s and 1870s journeyed by steamship to the then-exotic island nation in search of a superior way of life.

(A significant number of them hailed from Boston, and their souvenirs would become the foundation of the Japanese collections of the Museum of Fine Arts and what is now the Peabody-Essex ...

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