Abstract At the time of his correspondence with his family, Meredith M. Jack (1897-1986) was working as a salesman for the Baldwin Locomotive Works in southeast Asia. Between 1921 and 1922, he traveled across the United States by train to San Francisco and then sailed to Hawaii, the Philippines, Hong Kong, the Republic of Singapore, Indonesia (where he stayed for a significant period), the Republic of Singapore, Malaysia, the Republic of Singapore for a third time, Egypt, France, England, France...