Viewing page 4 of 81

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

holding the position. He was very hospitable & a warm admirer of Roosevelt. He told me that several good consuls had held the office but could not live on their salary of $2000 a year as the social expenses are heavy here. Osborn has lived in Rangoon 6 yrs & in India 15, (Calcutta, Darjeeling, Bombay, Madras. He is a graduate of Univ. Penn. At sunset we motored out to the Gymkhana Club the social club of Rangoon. Many women were here as well as men in the gardens & verandas I met several majors, one the Censor.

29

Visited the boat club with with Osborn & took dinner with Smith of the National Bank Smith is a [[batchelor of?]] 46 yrs & [[name?]] another scotchman who lives with