Yokohama 13 Bluff 5 December 1921

Dear Mr. Stinchfield,

I have not written to you for a long time waiting when you will return from your trip. It was with great pleasure that we received your cards showing us your whereabouts. But lately we received no more and presume that either you returned home or you are preoccupied with many interesting things which you are seeing in Europe.

We hope to hear from you soon and to learn the real reason of your silence. Are you pleased with your journey? How did you find Czekoslovakia, and our friend Selek? Did you go to England?

As regards ourselves, we are still in Japan and heaven knows when we shall leave it*. I am afraid our long intended journey to Europe must be abandoned. I cannot get from my firm a long leave and my wife does not wish to go alone. As my principal reason for this journey was Guigui**, who must be far to some school; we have to change our flaws as regards his education.

I have written to the headmaster of the Univ. Mid. School in Victoria whether they can take Guigui and expect their answer - so it is possible that either my wife or both of us will go next year to Canada - they praise this school here, have you heard anything about it?


My brother is staying with us. He has an interesting trip to Kamtchatka, and now has a good rest.
The children go to the school and are doing well. Guigui is quite a big boy and is much healthier than he used to be in Siberia.

We have changed our address. We have now a very pretty garden and lawn where the children can play croquet - my wife likes this country, it is not as cold as Siberia. As regard myself, I prefer to go back to Siberia.

One of our employees, a Selt, arrived to Latvia some time ago. He writes that our house in Krasnoyarsk  is quite uninhabitable. The central heating is damaged. Well, we shall make refrains if we want to live there again.

My wife, children, and myself send you and your mother our kindest regards and best wishes.

Yours Truly,

E.H. Peacock


Notes:
*They never did leave Japan - they perished in the Great Kanto Earthquake on September 1st, 1923.

**Guigui was my grandfathers pet name. It is chinese, spelled 鬼鬼, and means roughly, "little Devil".