Dear Daniel Pearlman, Jeff Twitchell-Wass and friends, I have a couple of questions about your stimulating discussion on Taoism and E.P. Daniel, I am interested in your suggestion that E.P.'s latent Taoism is derived from American transcendentalism as his philosophical tendency. If you have already discussed it in a published work, would you please tell it to me? Jeff, Concerning your fundamental questions, "what is specifically Taoist in E.P.?" and so on, could you or anyone suggest me that 1)what was the most prevailing source (probably written in English) to know "Taoism" for "intellectual Westerners" including E.P. during the first half of this century? 2) also at present? I am afraind that I'm not knowledgeable enough to conrtibute anything to your current discussion, however, any information would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Yoshiko Kita (Ibaraki, Japan)