Footnotes have been placed at the end of the paragraph in which they
are referenced.
There are several captioned photographs, which are indicated as
[Illustration: Caption]. Hearn also included in his letters small
sketches and Japanese script, which cannot be reproduced here.
Their approximate positions are indicated with [Illustration]. Any
handwritten text in those sketches is included here as captions. No
translations of the Japanese were made, since they normally appear in
Hearn's text.
Italic text is denoted with underscores as _italic_. Any text which is
printed in small capitals has been rendered as all UPPERCASE, with
the exception of 'McDONALD'.
Some corrections were made where printer's errors were most likely,
as described in the Note at the end of the text. Other than those
corrections, no changes to spelling have been made. Hyphenation of
words at line or page breaks are removed if other instances of the word
warrant it.
This book was published in two volumes, of which this is the second.
The first volume was released as Project Gutenberg ebook #42312,
available at: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42312.