<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Dear members<div>As far as I know based on Griffis own preface to the Hermit Kingdom (1882) that he confessed that he was a compiler and seemed slightly embarrassed that he had never set foot in Korea and that his knowledge was all second hand based on various other travelers and reports. Of course this kind of armchair scholar attitude was par for the course at the time. I think he visited briefly much later in the 1910s. <br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On Apr 8, 2015, at 4:56 AM, Robert N <<a href="mailto:robertneff103@gmail.com">robertneff103@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Thank you very much Frank. It is a good read and in my opinion has a different style than the one I linked earlier.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Frank Hoffmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hoffmann@koreanstudies.com" target="_blank">hoffmann@koreanstudies.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Here is the _Lippincott's Monthly Magazine_ text Robert Neff asked<br>
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