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84204307 — New York 1892 Hunt. Blue cloth very good 66p. frontis of the author. THE AUTHOR'S SIGNED CARD INSERTED INTO THE TITLE PAGE STATING: "MADAM TEL SONO TOKIO JAPAN % JAPANESE CONSU- LATE 7 WARREN ST. N.Y." inserted into 4 small slits. R A R E Teru Sono began business as a lawyer in Tokyo at age 26. She came to San Francisco in 1886 and organized Christian missionary activities to assist Japanese women by education. . She established the Benevolent Society for Japanese in San Francisco taught Japanese language at Mrs. Osborn's Mission Training Inst. in Brooklyn NY. & was also active in the Women's Temperance Union. . She began the Tel Sono Assn. to establish a non-sectarian Christian Training School for Japanese women of the higher classes to be an example to other classes of women in Japan. . This autobiography of the first Japanese woman lawyer is truly inspiring. . . unknown