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article in The New York Times. Griffis obtained the journals from the niece of Harris in 1893, and had those journals published in 1895 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in New York, with additional biographical sketches and annotations. That book, Townsend Harris, First American Envoy in Japan, and translated into Japanese, was the basis for a play about Harris, written by Kido Okamoto and staged in Japan in 1919. The

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