Featured Help identifying signature and translating from French.

If there were a Duke of London, would you write it as Duke of Londen? she asks interestedly. Would you do it for a person's name, even if you would for a place? Love seeing works in other languages that identify some women as Milady So&so.

 

Shuzuya near Nikko on April 15, 1910

Dear Mr Latapie!
I well received your card from Pekin, thanks a lot, apologized (!) that I am not responding until now but I was very busy because of the visit of the Duke of Meklembourg, and then after our ambassador left sent for 3 months, and for a few days we have been here to avoid the heat of Tokio (!). When we are back in Europe I hope to have the pleasure of seeing you again. Greetings sincere (!), your ? Goebel.

 

This is starting to feel like a subplot from Downton Abbey.

 

Hertog van Londen.
Or Duke of London of course. Either the entire thing in Dutch, or the entire thing in English.
Just like you would call 's Gravenhage (colloquial Den Haag) The Hague. Or like you would call Brussel (French: Bruxelles) Brussels.

 

GREAT JOB! I couldn't read it and I was just piecing it together! You ARE awesome!

 

Anyone speak Chinese or Japanese, I need a saying translated on the Art forum under Asian Watercolor!

 

https://www.antiquers.com/threads/calling-all-translators.27668/

 

Yes. Then later Bejing.

 

It is Pekin in French

 

I assumed so. And considering it had to go west by way of Siberia...

 

Like Londres. Or Londen, London, etc.

Not Beijing?

 

Sorry I spelled it wrong. It was still very dark here.

 

Fascinating ! I wonder if this person's boss was doing the tourist thing in Japan. There's a purification area (chuzuya or temizuya) near an important shrine in the Nikko area, a place of suitable significance for someone of rank and standing to be seen visiting. Mausoleum of Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu https://depositphotos.com/97543222/stock-photo-chuzuya-or-temizuya-purification-area.html (Cited from: https://www.antiquers.com/threads/h...ture-and-translating-from-french.44589/page-2)

 

That's what I like about antiques... just a simple thing, like a post card can make us wonder what is the history behind it, who wrote it? Why? Where was he? What was he doing?...