The note-paper on which Samuel Rakusen wrote to Sassoons in London was headed "S, Rakusen, Shipper of Chinese Produce, 42 Whangpoo Road Shanghai; Tele grams Ak Rakusen." The note-Paper on which C. P. Rakusen conte munieates with Sassoon & Ca. on Dehalf of S. Rakusen & Sons, Shanghai, has, as a heading, exactly the rame trode mark design, the office is 42 Whangpoo Road and the London telegraphic address is "Ak Ralvsen; the London office "3, Rakusen'& Sons, 107 Dalston Lane, and the "Samuel Rakusen & Sons (China) Ca., up to the end of 1922, is alleged to have been established 1880, but at the end of 1922 it becomes still more "ancient in tablishment:, as tae printed "Estab'd 1880" is changed "to lemstab'd 183 P. Rakusen admits he did nots begin to trade in Shanghai under the ame of Rakusen & Sons until 1920," The contract in question, entered into between Sphuel jRakusex, under the title of "S.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.