Title: Two Autograph Letters Signed and one Typed Letter Signed from Chinese-American students to prominent Portland merchant Seid Back, Jr. Author: Place: Publisher: Date: 1916 Description: 2 Autograph Letters Signed and 1 Typed Letter Signed from Chinese-American students to prominent Portland merchant Seid Back, Jr., thanking him for hosting them on a summer boat trip from San Francisco : K. Young. Fresno, June 25, 1916. 1 pg.; K.H. Chiu. Chinese Students Christian Association. Berkeley, Calif. June 27, 1916. 1 pg.; and Stephen Mark. University of California. Berkeley (written on Board the Steamer T.C. Walker), Undated, but postmarked Aug. 7, 1916. 4pp. With H.H. Hawley. Detective Sergeant (Portland Police Dept.) Typed Letter Signed, Portland, Nov. 17, 1913. Asking Back for a contribution for the “unfortunate girls” in an orphanage. All with original mailing envelopes. The most interesting is from Mark – later a Congregational Minister in Hawaii - who writes that he was on his way home to Stockton to see his family, whom he had not visited for two years.”Portland and Summer session both drained my pocket book, so I am dead broke, knowing hardly I am to return to college. Of course, I have worked my way up to the University from the third grade in the grammar school but as each year comes on in the University, I find it much more difficult to work and to study at the same time. In fact, I am about at my wit’s end..U.C. will lose several old Chinese students next year, but the chances are that new ones will take their places. The requirements are so strict here that many a one finds it necessary to transfer to some other university in order to graduate in due time.” Seid Back Jr. was the 40 year-old son of the wealthiest Chinese-American merchant in the northwest, a China-born immigrant who, coming to Portland penniless in 1870 to work as a houseboy and cook, eventually built a million-dollar business empire, “importing” thousands of Chinese laborers to work for the large American railroad companies. Like his father, Back was a Christian, spoke fluent English and was famous in Portland for his charitable work. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear to envelopes (as expected), some toning to letters and envelopes; very good. Item number: 238247
Title: Two Autograph Letters Signed and one Typed Letter Signed from Chinese-American students to prominent Portland merchant Seid Back, Jr. Author: Place: Publisher: Date: 1916 Description: 2 Autograph Letters Signed and 1 Typed Letter Signed from Chinese-American students to prominent Portland merchant Seid Back, Jr., thanking him for hosting them on a summer boat trip from San Francisco : K. Young. Fresno, June 25, 1916. 1 pg.; K.H. Chiu. Chinese Students Christian Association. Berkeley, Calif. June 27, 1916. 1 pg.; and Stephen Mark. University of California. Berkeley (written on Board the Steamer T.C. Walker), Undated, but postmarked Aug. 7, 1916. 4pp. With H.H. Hawley. Detective Sergeant (Portland Police Dept.) Typed Letter Signed, Portland, Nov. 17, 1913. Asking Back for a contribution for the “unfortunate girls” in an orphanage. All with original mailing envelopes. The most interesting is from Mark – later a Congregational Minister in Hawaii - who writes that he was on his way home to Stockton to see his family, whom he had not visited for two years.”Portland and Summer session both drained my pocket book, so I am dead broke, knowing hardly I am to return to college. Of course, I have worked my way up to the University from the third grade in the grammar school but as each year comes on in the University, I find it much more difficult to work and to study at the same time. In fact, I am about at my wit’s end..U.C. will lose several old Chinese students next year, but the chances are that new ones will take their places. The requirements are so strict here that many a one finds it necessary to transfer to some other university in order to graduate in due time.” Seid Back Jr. was the 40 year-old son of the wealthiest Chinese-American merchant in the northwest, a China-born immigrant who, coming to Portland penniless in 1870 to work as a houseboy and cook, eventually built a million-dollar business empire, “importing” thousands of Chinese laborers to work for the large American railroad companies. Like his father, Back was a Christian, spoke fluent English and was famous in Portland for his charitable work. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear to envelopes (as expected), some toning to letters and envelopes; very good. Item number: 238247
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