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 Shidzuyo Miyake to Renichi Fujimoto dated 1910 July 1. In the letter Shidzuyo describes receiving a letter containing a set of beautiful fruit paintings and provides updates about her brothers, Etsuji and Saburo. She asks about a small knife in a postcard she received from Renichi and then continues on to express her desire to move to the United States. Shidzuyo married Masuo Yasui in 1912. The letter has been translated into English and modern Japanese.