While in Japan, Edwards authored three small books for Hasegawa Takejirō. According to Scharf, it was Basil Hall Chamberlain who introduced Edwards to Hasegawa, and "this introduction led to a collaboration that resulted in three publications in a very short period of time. Edwards translated the French text of Jules Adam's book on Japanese storytellers, enabling Hasegawa to issue it in English under the title "Japanese Story-Tellers". At the same time, Edwards was writing the text for "Residential Rhymes", a humorous yet accurate depiction of Japan's foreign residents during the Meiji period," which Sharf calls "arguably Hasegawa's finest publication." And "Edwards also prepared twelve poems for the "Calendar with Verses" that Hasegawa wanted to issue for the year 1900." All three books were published in the fall of 1899, in hope of sales at the Japanese exhibit in Paris at the Exposition Universelle of 1900.