A JAPANESE QUERY

G. L. Seligmann (GUS@cas.unt.edu)
Sat, 23 Mar 1996 16:53:21 CST6CDT

To H-USA members. The following messge originally appeared
on H-IEACH (which stands for Institute of Early American History and
Culture located at the College of William and Wary in Williamsburg,
VA) and is reposted here. Some of you may find it interesting.

Gus SEligmann H-USA temporary moderator

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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 07:56:51 EST
From: Frank Edgar Grizzard <feg3e@poe.acc.virginia.edu>
Subject: Re: a Japanese query

This is undoubtedly Davide Bertolotti, who published in 1822
"Vita di Giorgio Washington scritta da Davide Bertolotti" (E.
Ritratti di Venticinque Uomini Illustri. Padova). See W. S.
Baker's "Bibliotheca Washingtoniana: A Descriptive List of the
Biographies and Biographical Sketches of George Washington"
(Philadelphia, 1889), 58.

Frank Grizzard
The Papers of George Washington

>
> Peter Duus, a colleague of mine in modern Japanese history, has found, in
> an 1846 Japanese gazetteer of the United States, a reference to an
> American authority on the life of Washington whose surname, as
> transliterated from the Japanese, seems to be something like Burisutetto.
> Does anyone out there have any idea who this might be--i.e, can you think
> of an American writing about GW whose name might sound somewhat similar
> (though obviously some imagination and free association might be involved)?
>
> Jack Rakove
> rakove@leland.stanford.edu
>

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