Abraham Lincoln Japanese Ambassador Matsudaira Tsuneo & Katsuji Debuchi letters

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This grouping is for two rare and fascinating signed original copies of speeches by the Japanese Ambassador Matsudaira Tsuneo and Katsuji Debuchi. The speech by Tsuneo is before the mid-day Luncheon club at Springfield,Illinois on June 17 1926 on Abraham Lincoln.

The speech is about Tsuneo's & Japans love for Abraham Lincoln which was given before the distinguished bankers of Illinois. This speech was well received with much acclaim.

The request of this speech and the one given by Debuchi is stated in a letter to the Japanese Embassy dated February 25, 1931 from Henry C.W.Melick of the Law Offices of Tison & Melick in New York city.

The second speech is by Japanese Ambassador Katsuji Debuchi on February 11 1931 in Springfield,Illinois on the one-hundred and twenty second birth of Abraham Lincoln.

Ambassador Debuchi laments in his long speech on how Lincoln was his boyhood idol. A copy of the speech in his entirety is included.

The ambassador's office respectfully offers both signed speechs to Mr. Melick.

It is somewhat of a paradox to read these speeches from representatives of the Japanese Empire about Lincoln's love for unity and peace while the military powers of Japan were attacking anything that moved.

Insightful and historically important lot.

Item ID: 738