Letter from Henry to Dear Ones at Home, July 28, 1906
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Letter from Henry to Dear Ones at Home, July 28, 1906
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Travel; Letters; Typhoons; Biography; Mental illness; Pirates-East Asia; Consuls; Christian sects; Indemnity
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Henry writes home having heard from Clara and Mary and supposing Sarah and Harriet are home. He relays information about the mission and his life in China, including the fact that a memorial building has been finished in Canton (Guangzhou). Henry also reacts to the news from home; he is pleased that after Mr. Notestine left the Seville Church, Mr. Sheely took charge. Henry also writes about the steamer Sainam and how it was attacked by pirates. A Wesleyan missionary was killed. He concludes by writing about a letter he received from Mr. Edwards, as well as his plans to return home.
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Noyes, Henry Varnum
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The College of Wooster, Special Collections, Noyes Collection, Box #3
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1906-07-28
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Kowloon July 28th 1906
Dear Ones at Home;
I think quite a large representation of the
family will be at the home when this letter reaches
it. Probably Sarah will be away from Jacksonville
for vacation and perhaps Hattie may also be at home.
I got Clara's + Mary's letters here. We left Canton on
the 1st of July and reached this point in the afternoon
It is on the high hills opposite Hong kong and is
said to be 1000 feet above sea level. However that may
be it is [u]cool[/u]. We can always sleep under blankets.
And we have had a delightful [u]rest[/u] - have Enjoyed
it Ever so much. We were about making up our
minds to stay in Canton during the whole Summer when
we got a letter from Mr [?Bembery?] of ^the English Church
Mission saying that his bungalow would be for rent
during june July [--August--] + September and asking us
to send word to the members of our Mission. We
decided instanter to take it one month + so scratched
"July" out of his letter and sent it on to the others.
The building is built of stone quarried from the hills
right around it - or more accurately made from
splitting up big granite boulders that were lying
around on the hills --- It is therefore solid Enough
to take away all the fear of going down in a typhoon
of which we have had our specimen. We have seen
only one forEigner since coming and that is Mr
[?Bembery?] who has been up twice. We look for him
again to day. It is rather an unusual experience
to be away from the sight of Europeans or Americans
so long but very Enjoyable for a change to have such
complete rest. The only people anywhere near us [--is--] are a
Chinaman who has a tea-shop a short distance away
and a Police Station where three India policemen live.
When we left Canton the Memorial building to
which you refer has just finished. I[--t--] paid the painter off at
the End of his job the day that we left.
2
We left word with out faithful Leung Sin Shang to have a
photograph taken of the building which he did. It is a very good
one - will send you a copy when we get back to Canton.
It is nice that you have so satisfactory a minister for the
Seville Church. The Lord seems to provide. When Mr Notestine
left, I thought who will they get? The Church seemed so
small that it could not offer very much of a salary
inducement, but Mr Sheely came and did his good work
there - then when he left. I feared it would be some time
before you would have another but you have another
who from what you write will give good satisfaction. You
refer to what he says about the "Cloud of witnesses." In the
commentaries they are frequently Explained as those who
are "[u]testifiers[/u]" to the reality of faith and it rewards but
the whole figure, as used by Paul, has seemed to me Ever
since I studied the matter at all to mean more than
[u]testifiers[/u] but also "[u]onlookErs[/u]" Who having themselves over
the course [--and--] are from their home of glory [--our--] watching
with interest those now running the course.
Bella and I have been reading A Life of "Cowper"
or at least in part of it, since being up here. It is
by a Mr [?Grimshaw?] and I should think is probably as
full a life as has been published. It contains many
of his letters and I think all the poems that he
wrote. His letters remind us of the way Richard used
to write in some respects. It seems strange that a
man who wrote such letters as he did and such
beautiful hymns should have had so many years
of mental suffering. But it is all past now, and
he knows why it was permitted -- The suffering has
all been [--our---] finished now for more than our hundred
years.
There was a sad tragedy occurred the 13th of this
month of which you will probably see some notice
in the paper. It was on the West River -
3
The small steamer "Sainam" which left for Wu Chan on the
West River from Canton had on board only one
passenger Dr McDonald who had been in China about
17 years. He was a Wesleyan Missionary and a very
fine man of Excellent ability. There were apparently
only two other foreigners on board [illegible] [--the-] Captain Joslin and
the Engineers whose name I think is Slaggie. They had just
finished dinner at about 1/4 past seven in the Evening
an were all three on deck outside the Saloon when
they saw one of the four Indian watchmen was having
trouble with one of the passengers. He had seized him
by the queue and was apparently bringing him forward
to the Captain. The Captain started forward to see what
was the matter and give help if needed and the
other two followed, all unarmed. They were met however
by a charge of some twenty well armed. The Captain
was shot just below the breast bone but not disabled.
They all ^three started for the wheel-house where the guns were,
but before they reached there the crowd rushed upon them
and they ran into the saloon. It was only then that
the Captain became conscious that he was wounded from
noticing that his clothes were wet with blood. Dr McDonald
commenced unbuttoning his coat to see the wound when
a "slink-pot" was thrown into the Saloon which of course
compelled ^them to go out. Dr McDonald was immediately shot
in the head which killed him instantly the Captain ran
for one of the State rooms outside and fell on the floor
Exhausted. He had sufficient presence of mind to feign
death. They knocked him about somewhat roughly kicked
him and left him for dead. A Chinese one of the crew
helped Mr SlaggiE the Engineer to get into a place by the
boiler where only one man could approach him at a time.
None of them ventured and so he was saved though burned
somewhat. The pirates ransacked the ship taking their
plunder off on five Chinese junks that came alongside.
The report is they were not in search of money so much
as a pretty large consignment of arms and
ammunitions for Kwangsi. The Sainam returned to
Canton on the 14th and the funeral of Dr McDonald
was on Sunday the 15th. The body was taken to Wu Chan
for burial. The four Indian watchmen on board were
all severely wounded. The pirates had taken passage on
the steamer to the number it is said of nearly 100.
We are much pleased just now to hear that we
are to have a good Consul. The two last have been
Roman Catholics and we decidedly would prefer a
Protestant. From what Dr Brown ^wrote I think the one who
is coming is of that character. He says Dr Hoskins has
written to him that they are very sorry to lose him at Beirut
their Excellent Consul General, who had just accepted
an appointment to Canton - China. He wrote that he
has taken an intelligent interest in their mission work
and Dr Hoskins ^adds is the "best American Consul I ever knew-"
So we are hoping for a better state of things than we
have had for the last few years --
I do not need to write more news as you
will have "living Epistles" from this side of the
world to tell you. I suppose the Lieu-Chou indemnity
has at last been paid. At least the last letter I
had from Mr Boggs one half had been deposited in
the bank and he supposed the rest was coming- as
no news is good news I suppose has all been handed
in. I had a letter from Mr Edwards yesterday + he
says they cannot come back before October on account
of Mrs Edward's health.
Dr Corbett seems to have given good satisfaction
as Moderator of the Gen Assembly--
Much love from Bella + myself to you all
We Expect to leave for Canton next Tuesday and go to
work considerably refreshed by the very Enjoyable time
we have had here.
Your Aff Bro
-Henry-
九龙 1906 年 7 月 28 日
亲爱的在家的人；
我认为相当大的代表性
当这封信到达时，家人会在家
它。莎拉可能会离开杰克逊维尔
假期，也许海蒂也可能在家。
我在这里收到了克拉拉和玛丽的信。我们离开了广州
7 月 1 日下午到达了这一点
它位于香港对面的高山上，是
据说海拔1000英尺。然而这可能
是不是很酷。我们总是可以盖着毯子睡觉。
我们享受了愉快的休息——享受
它曾经这么多。我们是关于弥补我们的
整个夏天都想留在广州
我们收到一封来自英国教会的本贝里先生的信
任务说他的平房将出租
在六月七月和九月，问我们
向我们使命的成员发送消息。我们
决定立即服用一个月，所以刮伤了
“七月”从他的信中拿出来，寄给了其他人。
这座建筑是用从山上开采的石头建造的
就在它周围——或者更准确地说是由
劈开躺着的大花岗岩巨石
围绕在山丘上——因此足够坚固
带走所有在台风中倒下的恐惧
其中我们有我们的标本。我们已经看到
自来以来只有一个外国人，那就是先生
Bembery 已经上过两次了。我们寻找他
再次到今天。这是相当不寻常的经历
远离欧洲人或美国人的视线
这么长但非常愉快的改变有这样的
完全休息。我们附近唯一的人是
不远处有一家茶店的中国人
以及三名印度警察居住的警察局。
当我们离开广州纪念馆时
你提到的刚刚完成。我付钱给画家
我们离开的那天他的工作结束。
2
我们在没有忠实的梁仙尚的情况下留下了一句话
他拍摄的建筑物的照片。这是一个非常好的
一个 - 当我们回到广州时会寄给你一份。
很高兴你有一位如此令人满意的部长
塞维利亚教堂。主似乎提供。当诺斯汀先生
离开了，我想他们会得到谁？教会似乎如此
小到不能提供很高的薪水
诱使，但希利先生来了，做了他的好事
那里——然后当他离开的时候。我担心这会是一些时间
在你有另一个之前，但你有另一个
你所写的谁会给你很好的满足感。你
参考他所说的“证人云”。在里面
他们经常被解释为那些
是信仰现实的“见证者”，它奖励但
整个形象，正如保罗所使用的，在我看来一直
因为我研究这件事的意义不仅仅是
作证者也是“旁观者”
课程来自他们的荣耀之家观看
感兴趣的那些现在正在运行该课程。
贝拉和我一直在读《考珀的一生》
或者至少是部分原因，因为在这里。这是
格里姆肖先生，我认为可能是
已出版的充实生活。它包含许多
他的信，我想他所有的诗
写道。他的信让我们想起了理查德使用的方式
写一些方面。似乎很奇怪
像他那样写信的人
美丽的赞美诗应该有这么多年
的精神痛苦。但现在一切都过去了，而且
他知道为什么它被允许——痛苦已经
现在已经完成了我们一百多
年。
13日发生了一场悲惨的悲剧
您可能会看到一些通知的月份
在论文中。那是在西河上——
3
开往吴禅的小轮船“Sainam”
来自广州的西河上只有一个
曾到过中国的客运医生麦克唐纳约
17年。他是卫斯理会传教士，非常
能力超群的好人。显然有
船上只有另外两名外国人 [无法辨认] Joslin 船长和
我认为他们的名字是 Slaggie 的工程师。他们刚刚
晚上七点半左右吃完晚饭
三个人都在沙龙外面的甲板上
他们看到四个印度守望者之一正在
其中一名乘客遇到麻烦。他抓住了他
在队列中，显然是在把他带到前面
给船长。船长开始向前看
是问题所在，并在需要时提供帮助，并且
另外两个紧随其后，全都没有武装。然而他们遇到了
由大约二十名全副武装的冲锋队冲锋。船长
在胸骨下方被击中，但未被禁用。
他们三个人都朝枪所在的驾驶室走去，
但是在他们到达那里之前，人群就冲向了他们
他们跑进了轿车。只是那时
船长意识到自己受伤了
注意到他的衣服被血弄湿了。麦克唐纳医生
开始解开外套的扣子看伤口
一个“slink-pot”被扔进了轿车，当然
强迫他们出去。麦当劳医生立即被枪杀
在立即杀死他的头上，船长跑了
去外面的一间国事厅，倒在地板上
筋疲力尽的。他有足够的沉着冷静来假装
死亡。他们敲了他一下，有点粗暴地踢了他一下
让他等死。一名中国船员
帮助工程师斯拉吉先生进入由
锅炉，一次只有一个人可以接近他。
他们都没有冒险，所以他虽然被烧了却得救了
有些。海盗洗劫了这艘带走他们的船
掠夺旁边的五艘中国帆船。
报告是他们没有那么多钱
作为相当大的武器托运和
广西弹药。 Sainam返回
广州14日和医生麦克唐纳的葬礼
是在 15 号星期日。尸体被带到吴禅
埋葬。船上的四名印度守望者是
都受了重伤。海盗已经通过
汽船的数量据说有近 100 个。
我们现在很高兴听到我们
要有一个好的领事。最后两个是
罗马天主教徒，我们当然更喜欢
新教。从布朗医生所写的内容来看，我认为
即将到来的就是那个性格。他说霍斯金斯医生有
写信给他，他们很遗憾在贝鲁特失去他
他们刚刚接受的优秀总领事
预约广州 - 中国。他写道，他
对他们的宣教工作产生了浓厚的兴趣
霍斯金斯医生补充说，他是“我所知道的最好的美国领事——”
所以我们希望事情的状态比我们更好
在过去的几年里——
我不需要像你那样写更多新闻
将有来自这方面的“活书信”
世界告诉你。我想是刘州赔款
终于付清了。至少最后一个字母 I
博格斯先生已经把一半存入
银行，他猜想剩下的都来了——因为
没有消息就是好消息，我想已经全部传出
昨天我收到了爱德华兹先生的来信，他
说他们不能在 10 月之前回来
爱德华夫人的健康。
科比特医生似乎很满意
作为大会的主持人——
贝拉和我自己对你们所有人的爱
我们预计下周二出发去广州，然后去
非常愉快的时间使工作相当精神焕发
我们曾经在这里。
你的好兄弟
-亨利-
Dear Ones at Home;
I think quite a large representation of the
family will be at the home when this letter reaches
it. Probably Sarah will be away from Jacksonville
for vacation and perhaps Hattie may also be at home.
I got Clara's + Mary's letters here. We left Canton on
the 1st of July and reached this point in the afternoon
It is on the high hills opposite Hong kong and is
said to be 1000 feet above sea level. However that may
be it is [u]cool[/u]. We can always sleep under blankets.
And we have had a delightful [u]rest[/u] - have Enjoyed
it Ever so much. We were about making up our
minds to stay in Canton during the whole Summer when
we got a letter from Mr [?Bembery?] of ^the English Church
Mission saying that his bungalow would be for rent
during june July [--August--] + September and asking us
to send word to the members of our Mission. We
decided instanter to take it one month + so scratched
"July" out of his letter and sent it on to the others.
The building is built of stone quarried from the hills
right around it - or more accurately made from
splitting up big granite boulders that were lying
around on the hills --- It is therefore solid Enough
to take away all the fear of going down in a typhoon
of which we have had our specimen. We have seen
only one forEigner since coming and that is Mr
[?Bembery?] who has been up twice. We look for him
again to day. It is rather an unusual experience
to be away from the sight of Europeans or Americans
so long but very Enjoyable for a change to have such
complete rest. The only people anywhere near us [--is--] are a
Chinaman who has a tea-shop a short distance away
and a Police Station where three India policemen live.
When we left Canton the Memorial building to
which you refer has just finished. I[--t--] paid the painter off at
the End of his job the day that we left.
2
We left word with out faithful Leung Sin Shang to have a
photograph taken of the building which he did. It is a very good
one - will send you a copy when we get back to Canton.
It is nice that you have so satisfactory a minister for the
Seville Church. The Lord seems to provide. When Mr Notestine
left, I thought who will they get? The Church seemed so
small that it could not offer very much of a salary
inducement, but Mr Sheely came and did his good work
there - then when he left. I feared it would be some time
before you would have another but you have another
who from what you write will give good satisfaction. You
refer to what he says about the "Cloud of witnesses." In the
commentaries they are frequently Explained as those who
are "[u]testifiers[/u]" to the reality of faith and it rewards but
the whole figure, as used by Paul, has seemed to me Ever
since I studied the matter at all to mean more than
[u]testifiers[/u] but also "[u]onlookErs[/u]" Who having themselves over
the course [--and--] are from their home of glory [--our--] watching
with interest those now running the course.
Bella and I have been reading A Life of "Cowper"
or at least in part of it, since being up here. It is
by a Mr [?Grimshaw?] and I should think is probably as
full a life as has been published. It contains many
of his letters and I think all the poems that he
wrote. His letters remind us of the way Richard used
to write in some respects. It seems strange that a
man who wrote such letters as he did and such
beautiful hymns should have had so many years
of mental suffering. But it is all past now, and
he knows why it was permitted -- The suffering has
all been [--our---] finished now for more than our hundred
years.
There was a sad tragedy occurred the 13th of this
month of which you will probably see some notice
in the paper. It was on the West River -
3
The small steamer "Sainam" which left for Wu Chan on the
West River from Canton had on board only one
passenger Dr McDonald who had been in China about
17 years. He was a Wesleyan Missionary and a very
fine man of Excellent ability. There were apparently
only two other foreigners on board [illegible] [--the-] Captain Joslin and
the Engineers whose name I think is Slaggie. They had just
finished dinner at about 1/4 past seven in the Evening
an were all three on deck outside the Saloon when
they saw one of the four Indian watchmen was having
trouble with one of the passengers. He had seized him
by the queue and was apparently bringing him forward
to the Captain. The Captain started forward to see what
was the matter and give help if needed and the
other two followed, all unarmed. They were met however
by a charge of some twenty well armed. The Captain
was shot just below the breast bone but not disabled.
They all ^three started for the wheel-house where the guns were,
but before they reached there the crowd rushed upon them
and they ran into the saloon. It was only then that
the Captain became conscious that he was wounded from
noticing that his clothes were wet with blood. Dr McDonald
commenced unbuttoning his coat to see the wound when
a "slink-pot" was thrown into the Saloon which of course
compelled ^them to go out. Dr McDonald was immediately shot
in the head which killed him instantly the Captain ran
for one of the State rooms outside and fell on the floor
Exhausted. He had sufficient presence of mind to feign
death. They knocked him about somewhat roughly kicked
him and left him for dead. A Chinese one of the crew
helped Mr SlaggiE the Engineer to get into a place by the
boiler where only one man could approach him at a time.
None of them ventured and so he was saved though burned
somewhat. The pirates ransacked the ship taking their
plunder off on five Chinese junks that came alongside.
The report is they were not in search of money so much
as a pretty large consignment of arms and
ammunitions for Kwangsi. The Sainam returned to
Canton on the 14th and the funeral of Dr McDonald
was on Sunday the 15th. The body was taken to Wu Chan
for burial. The four Indian watchmen on board were
all severely wounded. The pirates had taken passage on
the steamer to the number it is said of nearly 100.
We are much pleased just now to hear that we
are to have a good Consul. The two last have been
Roman Catholics and we decidedly would prefer a
Protestant. From what Dr Brown ^wrote I think the one who
is coming is of that character. He says Dr Hoskins has
written to him that they are very sorry to lose him at Beirut
their Excellent Consul General, who had just accepted
an appointment to Canton - China. He wrote that he
has taken an intelligent interest in their mission work
and Dr Hoskins ^adds is the "best American Consul I ever knew-"
So we are hoping for a better state of things than we
have had for the last few years --
I do not need to write more news as you
will have "living Epistles" from this side of the
world to tell you. I suppose the Lieu-Chou indemnity
has at last been paid. At least the last letter I
had from Mr Boggs one half had been deposited in
the bank and he supposed the rest was coming- as
no news is good news I suppose has all been handed
in. I had a letter from Mr Edwards yesterday + he
says they cannot come back before October on account
of Mrs Edward's health.
Dr Corbett seems to have given good satisfaction
as Moderator of the Gen Assembly--
Much love from Bella + myself to you all
We Expect to leave for Canton next Tuesday and go to
work considerably refreshed by the very Enjoyable time
we have had here.
Your Aff Bro
-Henry-
九龙 1906 年 7 月 28 日
亲爱的在家的人；
我认为相当大的代表性
当这封信到达时，家人会在家
它。莎拉可能会离开杰克逊维尔
假期，也许海蒂也可能在家。
我在这里收到了克拉拉和玛丽的信。我们离开了广州
7 月 1 日下午到达了这一点
它位于香港对面的高山上，是
据说海拔1000英尺。然而这可能
是不是很酷。我们总是可以盖着毯子睡觉。
我们享受了愉快的休息——享受
它曾经这么多。我们是关于弥补我们的
整个夏天都想留在广州
我们收到一封来自英国教会的本贝里先生的信
任务说他的平房将出租
在六月七月和九月，问我们
向我们使命的成员发送消息。我们
决定立即服用一个月，所以刮伤了
“七月”从他的信中拿出来，寄给了其他人。
这座建筑是用从山上开采的石头建造的
就在它周围——或者更准确地说是由
劈开躺着的大花岗岩巨石
围绕在山丘上——因此足够坚固
带走所有在台风中倒下的恐惧
其中我们有我们的标本。我们已经看到
自来以来只有一个外国人，那就是先生
Bembery 已经上过两次了。我们寻找他
再次到今天。这是相当不寻常的经历
远离欧洲人或美国人的视线
这么长但非常愉快的改变有这样的
完全休息。我们附近唯一的人是
不远处有一家茶店的中国人
以及三名印度警察居住的警察局。
当我们离开广州纪念馆时
你提到的刚刚完成。我付钱给画家
我们离开的那天他的工作结束。
2
我们在没有忠实的梁仙尚的情况下留下了一句话
他拍摄的建筑物的照片。这是一个非常好的
一个 - 当我们回到广州时会寄给你一份。
很高兴你有一位如此令人满意的部长
塞维利亚教堂。主似乎提供。当诺斯汀先生
离开了，我想他们会得到谁？教会似乎如此
小到不能提供很高的薪水
诱使，但希利先生来了，做了他的好事
那里——然后当他离开的时候。我担心这会是一些时间
在你有另一个之前，但你有另一个
你所写的谁会给你很好的满足感。你
参考他所说的“证人云”。在里面
他们经常被解释为那些
是信仰现实的“见证者”，它奖励但
整个形象，正如保罗所使用的，在我看来一直
因为我研究这件事的意义不仅仅是
作证者也是“旁观者”
课程来自他们的荣耀之家观看
感兴趣的那些现在正在运行该课程。
贝拉和我一直在读《考珀的一生》
或者至少是部分原因，因为在这里。这是
格里姆肖先生，我认为可能是
已出版的充实生活。它包含许多
他的信，我想他所有的诗
写道。他的信让我们想起了理查德使用的方式
写一些方面。似乎很奇怪
像他那样写信的人
美丽的赞美诗应该有这么多年
的精神痛苦。但现在一切都过去了，而且
他知道为什么它被允许——痛苦已经
现在已经完成了我们一百多
年。
13日发生了一场悲惨的悲剧
您可能会看到一些通知的月份
在论文中。那是在西河上——
3
开往吴禅的小轮船“Sainam”
来自广州的西河上只有一个
曾到过中国的客运医生麦克唐纳约
17年。他是卫斯理会传教士，非常
能力超群的好人。显然有
船上只有另外两名外国人 [无法辨认] Joslin 船长和
我认为他们的名字是 Slaggie 的工程师。他们刚刚
晚上七点半左右吃完晚饭
三个人都在沙龙外面的甲板上
他们看到四个印度守望者之一正在
其中一名乘客遇到麻烦。他抓住了他
在队列中，显然是在把他带到前面
给船长。船长开始向前看
是问题所在，并在需要时提供帮助，并且
另外两个紧随其后，全都没有武装。然而他们遇到了
由大约二十名全副武装的冲锋队冲锋。船长
在胸骨下方被击中，但未被禁用。
他们三个人都朝枪所在的驾驶室走去，
但是在他们到达那里之前，人群就冲向了他们
他们跑进了轿车。只是那时
船长意识到自己受伤了
注意到他的衣服被血弄湿了。麦克唐纳医生
开始解开外套的扣子看伤口
一个“slink-pot”被扔进了轿车，当然
强迫他们出去。麦当劳医生立即被枪杀
在立即杀死他的头上，船长跑了
去外面的一间国事厅，倒在地板上
筋疲力尽的。他有足够的沉着冷静来假装
死亡。他们敲了他一下，有点粗暴地踢了他一下
让他等死。一名中国船员
帮助工程师斯拉吉先生进入由
锅炉，一次只有一个人可以接近他。
他们都没有冒险，所以他虽然被烧了却得救了
有些。海盗洗劫了这艘带走他们的船
掠夺旁边的五艘中国帆船。
报告是他们没有那么多钱
作为相当大的武器托运和
广西弹药。 Sainam返回
广州14日和医生麦克唐纳的葬礼
是在 15 号星期日。尸体被带到吴禅
埋葬。船上的四名印度守望者是
都受了重伤。海盗已经通过
汽船的数量据说有近 100 个。
我们现在很高兴听到我们
要有一个好的领事。最后两个是
罗马天主教徒，我们当然更喜欢
新教。从布朗医生所写的内容来看，我认为
即将到来的就是那个性格。他说霍斯金斯医生有
写信给他，他们很遗憾在贝鲁特失去他
他们刚刚接受的优秀总领事
预约广州 - 中国。他写道，他
对他们的宣教工作产生了浓厚的兴趣
霍斯金斯医生补充说，他是“我所知道的最好的美国领事——”
所以我们希望事情的状态比我们更好
在过去的几年里——
我不需要像你那样写更多新闻
将有来自这方面的“活书信”
世界告诉你。我想是刘州赔款
终于付清了。至少最后一个字母 I
博格斯先生已经把一半存入
银行，他猜想剩下的都来了——因为
没有消息就是好消息，我想已经全部传出
昨天我收到了爱德华兹先生的来信，他
说他们不能在 10 月之前回来
爱德华夫人的健康。
科比特医生似乎很满意
作为大会的主持人——
贝拉和我自己对你们所有人的爱
我们预计下周二出发去广州，然后去
非常愉快的时间使工作相当精神焕发
我们曾经在这里。
你的好兄弟
-亨利-
Original Format
Letter
Collection
Citation
Noyes, Henry Varnum, “Letter from Henry to Dear Ones at Home, July 28, 1906,” Letters from Harriet Noyes: Missionaries and Women's Education in Nineteenth Century China, accessed April 26, 2024, https://noyesletters.org/items/show/922.