Digitized item from the Yasui Brothers business records, Mss 2949. The item, written in a pre-World War II Japanese script, is a letter from Shinataro and Tsuya Yasui to Renichi Fujimoto dated 16 November 1916 imploring him to return to Japan. The letter describes the death of his adoptive father and the poor health of his adoptive mother, and reprimands Renichi for ignoring his obligations to the Fujimoto family and his wife Matsuyo, who remained in Japan while he moved to the U.S. The end of the document is a letter to Masuo Yasui and family acknowledging previous correspondence and wishing them well. The letter has been translated into English and modern Japanese.