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J.C. Eldridge was a purser (i.e. financial officer) in the United States Navy who accompanied [[Commodore Matthew Perry]] on his trip to Japan in [[1854]]. On [[1854]]/5/20, Eldridge and his clerk [[William Speiden]] completed negotiations with [[Tokugawa shogunate]] officials regarding currency exchange rates and coal prices to be relevant following the opening of the ports of [[Hakodate]] and [[Shimoda]].
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==References==
*Matthew Calbraith Perry, ''[[Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan]]'', 1856.
*Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 1 (1937), 604.
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