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mere puttering moilers after fugitive and illusory wealth
To the absorbed and extraordinarily skilled artists of this relic of Imperial dominance [this being Kyoto], crushing feudalism, and monkish sway, the inhabitants of bustling Osaka are mere puttering moilers after fugitive and illusory wealth; the bumptious Edokko (or Tokyoites), pleasurers and politicasters; and others of the Empire so unfortunate as not to be able live in Kyoto, more or less boorish folk out of touch with the finer ethics of Old Japan.
ex T. Philip Terry, Terry’s Japanese Empire, Including Korea and Formosa; with chapters on Manchuria, the Trans-Siberian railway, and the chief ocean routes to Japan; a guidebook for travelers; with 8 specially drawn maps and 21 plans. (Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1914) : 406
google books : link
Getty Research Institute copy/scan (one of several) via hathitrust : link
Thomas Philip Terry (1864-1945)
findagrave : link
Terry, Thomas Philip
Writer. Born Georgetown, Kentucky, June 6, 1864; son of Thomas and Sarah Elizabeth (Moss) Terry. Educ. common schools of Paris, Kentucky. Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Went to Paris, Ky., in 1872; to Kansas City, Mo., in 1882; to Mexico in 1885; to New York in 1890. World wide traveler. Made several journeys round the world between 1895-1905, with headquarters in Yokohama, Japan. Correspondent for American newspapers in Far East, during Japanese-Russian War. Has visited nearly every civilized country on the globe. Manager Sonora News C., City of Mexico, from 1905 to 1911. Linguist. Author of “Terry’s Mexico” (Guidbook to Mexico on the Baedeker plan), 1909, now in 2d edition. Contributor to magazines and newspapers. Married, 1890, Charlotte Loring Young, East Bridgewater, Mass., descendant of John Alden and Miles Standish; two children. Politics: Republican. Address: East Bridgewater, Mass., U.S.A.
ex H. L. Motter, ed., The International Who’s Who (1912) : 1012 : link
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Terry seems to have been representative of the Syracuse Cycle Company, Syracuse, New York, for China, Japan and India
as reported in “The Trade for 1898; officers, branch managers, general agents and traveling salesmen; home address and territory; New York” in The Farm Implement News 19:1 (Chicago, Illinois; January 6, 1898) : 19 : link (google books)
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a son, Robert Cushing Terry (1898-1995)
Born June 15, 1898, at Yokohama, Japan. Home address, Fearing Road, Hingham, Massachusetts. Prepared at Thayer Academy and Powder Point School. In college four years as undergraduate. Second University Crew, 1917-1918; University Crew Squad, 1919-1920
R. O. T. C., 1917-1918. Yeoman, First Class, U. S. N. R. F.: enlisted June 12, 1918; discharged December 7, 1918.
ex Harvard Class Album Vol. 31, 1920
link
M.A., Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (1960) (?)
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mainly on Terry’s Mexico (1911) —
Persephone Braham, “Adventures in the Picturesque: Voyage and Voyeurism in the Tourist Guidebook to Mexico.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 26:3 (Primavera 2002) : 379-394 : jstor : link
This an excellent contextualizing paper. D. H. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene all “consulted Terry when they travelled through Mexico in the 1920s and 30s...” Terry’s travel journalism — including Hawaii and Cuba, then-recent additions to American control — can be taken as an adjunct to and result of that expansion.
Several writing careers (including one of these “putterings”) leveraged the Spanish-American War in some ways. I am thinking in particular of Charles Tenney Jackson (358 and 358a) and, over at asfaltics, of A. C. Haeselbarth (2576); as well as the filibusters (132b)
I grow more convinced that the Spanish-American War was the triggering event to what would eventually be American ascendancy in the 20th century, and its subsequent and ongoing decline.
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Thomas Philip Terry, 367 letters from; 1914-1933. 377 letters to; 1914-1933.
Houghton Library
Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence and records
Correspondence with Houghton Mifflin, 1925
Item — Box: 130
Identifier: MS Am 1925-1925.4, MS Am 1925, MS Am 1925: I. A, (1762)
link (20240718)
some books
probably not complete, relying on LoC catalog for some information e.g., pages, illustrations, maps if any, etc. showing subsequent editions.
- Spanish-English pocket interpreter, with a phonetic pronunciation: A valuable assistant to those wishing to acquire a speaking knowledge of the Spanish language. A handy interpreter for American travelers in Mexico and all Spanish-speaking countries. Compiled by T. Philip Terry.
Third Edition Revised (1898)
google books : link
same (Harvard copy/scan, via hathitrust) : linkfirst edition evidently 1891
- Thomas Philip Terry, Terry’s Mexico; handbook for travellers
City of Mexico, Sonora news company; Boston, Houghton, Mifflin co., 1909. 2 p.l., [iii]-ccxl, 595, [1] p. 2 maps (incl. fold. front.) 25 plans (1 fold.)
LoC : permalink
hathitrust (U Michigan copy/scan) : link - T. Philip Terry. Mexico: an outline sketch of the country, its people and their history from the earliest times to the present
Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1914. 89 p. maps 18 cm. (contents taken from Terry’s Guidebook to Mexico) LoC : permalink
hathitrust : link - T. Philip Terry, Terry’s Japanese Empire, Including Korea and Formosa; with chapters on Manchuria, the Trans-Siberian railway, and the chief ocean routes to Japan; a guidebook for travelers; with 8 specially drawn maps and 21 plans. (Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1914)
cclxxxiii, 799 p. maps (part fold., incl. front.) plans (part fold.)
LoC : permalink
hathitrust : link - T. Philip Terry. Terry’s short cut to Spanish; a new, easy, and quick method for learning the Spanish language as spoken in Spanish-America and in Spain, combined with a pronouncing phrase book for travelers in Spanish-speaking countries
Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920.
xx, 543, [1] p. 18 cm.
LoC : permalink
hathitrust : link - T. Philip Terry. Terry’s guide to Mexico : The new standard guidebook to the Mexican Republic, with chapters on Cuba, the Bahama Islands and the ocean routes to Mexico
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1923.
ccxlix, 595 p., [23] leaves of plates (some fold.) : col. maps (2 fold.), plans (some fold.)
Getty Research Institute copy/scan (hathitrust) : link - T. Philip Terry. Terry’s guide to Cuba, including the Isle of Pinea, with a chapter on the ocean routes to the island; a handbook for travelers, with 2 specially drawn maps and 7 plans
Boston, New York [etc.] Houghton Mifflin company, 1926.
ix, [1], 460 p. fold. maps. 16 cm.
LoC : permalink
hathitrust : link - T. Philip Terry. Terry’s guide to the Japanese empire, including Korea and Formosa, with chapters on Manchuria, the Trans-Siberian railway, and the chief ocean routes to Japan; a handbook for travelers; with 8 specially drawn maps and 21 plans
Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin company; [etc., etc.] 1920.
cclxxiii, 799 p. front., maps (part fold.) plans (part fold.) 16 cm.
LoC : permalink - T. Philip Terry. Terry’s guide to the Japanese empire, including Korea and Formosa, with chapters on Manchuria, the Trans-Siberian railway, and the chief ocean routes to Japan; a handbook for travellers with 8 specially drawn maps and 23 plans
Revised edition
Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin; [etc., etc.] 1928.
cclxxxiv (i.e. 272), 790 (i.e. 787) p. maps (part fold., incl. front.) plans (part fold.) 17 cm.
LoC : permalink - T. Philip Terry. Terry’s guide to the Japanese empire, including Chōsen (Korea) and Taiwan (Formosa), with chapters on Manchuria, the Trans-Siberian railway, and the chief ocean routes to Japan; a handbook for travelers, with 8 specially drawn maps and 23 plans
Revised and augmented edition
cclxxxiv, 799 p. front., maps (part fold.) plans
Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin company; London, Geografia, ltd.; [etc., etc.] 1933.
LoC : permalink - Terry’s Guide to Mexico; the new standard guidebook to the Mexican Republic, with chapters on the railways, airways, bus lines, and ocean routes to Mexico, and the automobile roads in the Republic. Rev. by Robert C. Terry.
revised edition, Hingham, Mass., 1947.
932 p. col. maps (part fold.) 17 cm.
LoC : permalink
other (earlier) writing (no pretense to completeness)
links to google books, unless otherwise indicated. - T. Philip Terry. “The Whistling Idol. (A Mexican story.)”
Outing 18:2 (May 1891) : 106-114 : link - T. Philip Terry. “The Toltec Idol. (A Mexican Adventure.)”
Outing 22:2 (May 1893) : 108-111
U Michigan copy/scan (via google books) : linkLiterary and romantic; perhaps entirely so.
- T. Philip Terry. “In Aztec Land Awheel.”
Outing 23:6 (March 1894) : 461-463
Cornell copy/scan (via hathitrust) : link - T. Philip Terry. “The Emerald of Merida.”
Outing 25:2 (November 1894) : 91-96
U Michigan copy/scan (via google books) : linka romance; starts thus —
“The Mexican Peninsula of Yucatan offers a practically inexhaustible and fascinating field for research. This fabled spur of a strange country is filled with mysterious traces of a dead and gone people who left behind them, literally in the sands of time, acres of ruined palaces buried under a profusion of mystifying petrographic symbols to serve to the present generation as mile-posts into the secrets of the past...”
- T. Philip Terry. “My Ride to Acapulco; A Cycling Adventure in Mexico”
Outing 29:6 (March 1897) : 593-596
Princeton copy/scan (via google books) : link
U Michigan copy/scan (via hathitrust) : linkbandidos give chase to two cyclists, but manage by riata to make off only with the author’s camera.
- T. Philip Terry. “Wheeling in the Mikado’s Land.”
Outing 33:4 (June 1897) : 208-215
U Michigan copy/scan (via google books) : link
“Untouched by the white hand of progress.”
source : p 215 - T. Philip Terry. “In Lotos Land Awheel.”
Outing 33:4 (January 1899) : 341-347
U Chicago copy/scan (via google books) : link
Cornell copy/scan (via hathitrust) : link - T. Philip Terry. “To the Top of Pali Awheel. Cycling in the Sandwich Islands.”
Outing 33:6 (March 1899) : 585-590
Harvard copy/scan (via google books) : link - T. Philip Terry. “The Good Touring Roads of Java. Illustrated with photographs.”
Outing 43:1 (October 1903) : 45-49 : link - T. Philip Terry. “Walking through Korea. Photographs by the Author.”
Outing 43:4 (January 1904) : 433-440 : link - T. Philip Terry. “The Athletic Japanese. Illustrated by photographs.”
Outing 43:6 (March 1904) : 729-732 : link - T. Philip Terry. “Where Many Strange Human Types Meet.”
Outing 46:3 (June 1905) 303:312 : linka quite strange piece on Batavia (Jakarta). Photographs (portraits, several of women) from all over Asia, unconnected to the writing. Puts in writing what might have been understood but kept quiet, e.g., —
“No Netherlands Indian town is considered as worth much unless a river flows near or through it. This is of importance to the Dutchman, for the yearly overflow, the partial submergence of the houses and the loss of life brings his cherished fatherland to mind. This overflow also aids the fever to reduce the ranks of the business men and creates more vacancies for the many-trousered Duch boys who yearly emmigrate [sic] from Holland to the East.” (312)