[KS] Re: Dr. Harold Cook

[Ernie .]

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Dear Kirk Larsen, thank you very much for the information you sent me. It 
has given me some new clues and details I didn't have idea about. But let me 
say just a couple of things I consider are interesting in this history and 
could induce to some errors.

There should be some confusion in Ch'oe Song-yon's work when he says Mrs 
Amalia Amador (the wife of Wu Litang) died in Tokyo three years after his 
husband' dead. I can say that quite surely, because when I visited 
Chemulpo's Foreign Cementery, there was Mrs. Amalia Amador headstone, where 
you can read she died in Inchon in january 1939, 27 years after his husband.

Any way, just to say you the information and the reference you sent have 
been very valuable to me.

Ernesto de Laurentis

PS. Should anybody knows another books where Mrs. Amalia Amador is named, I 
would be extremelly grateful.


>From: "Kirk W. Larsen" <kwlarsen at gwu.edu>
>Reply-To: korean-studies at iic.edu
>To: korean-studies at iic.edu
>Subject: Re: Dr. Harold Cook
>Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 17:36:45 -0400
>
>In answer to your query about Wu Litang (Woo Li-tang) and his wife:
>
>Wu met his wife while serving in the Chinese Embassy in Madrid. They both
>came to Korea in 1883 when Wu was stationed there to work in the Korean
>Customs Service. The couple stayed in Korea and settled down in Inch'on
>(Chemulp'o). They constructed a large Victorian-style house in Inch'on in
>1909. Wu's wife was something of a mysterious figure, envied for her wealth
>(the origins of which are not clear) but shunned by the small Western
>community in Inch'on because of a reputation for what one source called
>"cunning heartlessness." After Wu's death, she sold the home to a Mr.
>Yoshida and moved to Tokyo where she died three years later.
>
>This account is taken largely from Ch'oe Song-yon Kaehang kwa yanggwan
>yokjong (Inch'on: Kyonggi munhwasa, 1958), 163-165.
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>Kirk Larsen
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ernie ." <recanto at hotmail.com>
>To: <korean-studies at iic.edu>
>Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 5:14 AM
>Subject: Re: Dr. Harold Cook
>
>
> > I have been a few months reading the messages in the list, but I am yet
> > virgin in the net, probable because spanish is my mother tongue.
> >
> > Any way, proffesor Amstrong, I am also impressed by the work of Harold
>Cook.
> > I bought his book during my stay in Korea last year and, after reading
> > another books related to this period, I have found a couple of datails
>about
> > the protagonist, Mr Townsend, Mr. Cook could add to his book if he 
>reedit
> > his work some day. The clue is in Korean Review. By the way, I am also
> > investigating (in the long term) about one of the people he mention in 
>his
> > book, an spanish woman, Amalia Amador, who arrived to Korea in the first
> > 1880s and was married to a chinesse diplomat, Woo Li-tang (who
>accomplained
> > the first korean diplomatic mission to EEUU). Should anybody know
>something
> > about this lady, I would be extremelly grateful.
> >
> > Ernesto de Laurentis
> >
> >
> > >From: "Robert Armstrong" <chonan99 at hotmail.com>
> > >Reply-To: korean-studies at iic.edu
> > >To: korean-studies at iic.edu
> > >Subject: Dr. Harold Cook
> > >Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 03:18:59 GMT
> > >
> > >
> > >I am sorry to bother the group with this but I was wondering if anyone
>has
> > >any information on Dr. Harold Cook.  Lately I have been reading some of
>his
> > >books and am really impressed with his work.  I am especially impressed
> > >with
> > >the amount of work that he went to in "Pioneer American Businessman in
> > >Korea", I think that anyone with an interest in Korea during the late
>1880s
> > >should read this book.  Would appreciate any help that can be offered.
> > >
> > >Thanks
> > >
> > >Robert
> > 
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