Korea > Letter from Isabella Bird Bishop to John Murray III, 23 January 1897

returning to England with a very
bad grace. I am far more at home
in Tokyo and Seoul than in any
place in Britain except Tobermory.
and I very much prefer life in
the East to life at home. If all goes
well I ought to reach London by
P & O str Formosa about March
20.
Now about my book. I have
been working at it under very
excellent auspices and have received
most liberal help from the English
and Russian Ministers and
the Chief Commissioner of Customs,
who, with many others are [unclear]
that I should make it a
book which shall take its place
as the book on Korea for some
years to come. I am trying to
do this, as all the existing books
have become obsolete owing
to the changes the last year has
made.
It is a compound of journeys
(not letters) chapters on a few
salient Korean subjects and
2 chapters sketching the changes
which have been made and things
as they now are in the capital.
Among the travel chapters are
2 on Chinese and Russian Manchuria
the last of which has been 3 times