[KS] Percival Lowell

Wayne Patterson wayne.patterson at snc.edu
Mon Apr 6 14:49:49 EDT 2015


Hi, Hyung Il --

US Naval Attache George Foulk was probably there at that time.  He took
over as the US representative to Korea when Lucius Foote resigned in a huff.

Good luck on your research.

Cheers,

Wayne

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On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Hyung Pai <hyungpai at eastasian.ucsb.edu>
wrote:

> Dear Koreanists,
>
> I am working on a paper on Percival Lowell and his travel photographs, In
> his widely read travelogue ( Land of the Morning Calm during the Winter of
> 1882-83, he brags that he was amongst 9 Westerners residing in Seoul at the
> time
> He mentions Lucius Foote, and Von Moellendorf ( not including his Japanese
> wife and two kids),
> Is this true? Who would the 7 others be? Can we confirm who they are. This
> time period early 1880s in Korean history is a new area for me .
> Hyung Il Pai
> Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
> HSSB Building, University of California, Santa Barbara
> CA 93106
> Fax: 805-893-7671
> Email: hyungpai at eastasian.ucsb.edu
> Dept Home-page profile:
> http://www.eastasian.ucsb.edu/home/faculty/hyung-il-pai/
>
>
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