Letter from Hattie to Em, January 7, 1885
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Letter from Hattie to Em, January 7, 1885
Subject
Prohibition--United States; Missionaries--Study and teaching; Betrothal
Description
Harriet writes to her sister Emily about the new Baptist brother Mr. Hickson and his wife. She talks about Miss Young who is of their Macau mission and who reminds Harriet fondly of Em. She discusses Lucy's wedding and how Lucy thought she would get proposed to by Mr. Painter but ended up engaged to Mr. Leaman. Harriet mentions Lucy's boarding school and also brings up the Prohibitionists that seem to be dividing the Republican party.
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Noyes, Harriet Newell
Source
The College of Wooster, Special Collections, Noyes Collection, Box #3
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Unpublished
Date
1885-01-07
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Canton
Jan 7th 1885
My dear Em,
I have just come back
from the meeting this evening
which was held in Mr Henry's
house now occupied by Miss Stein.
Mr Hickson the new Baptist
brother led the meeting. He
speaks very well after he gets well
commenced. I should think
that he ought to make a good
missionary. Mrs Hickson is quite
pretty but he is one of the very
homeliest men in the world.
His face looks as though it had
been accidentally flattened in
some way. Miss Young of their
mission who is now in Macau
with Miss Lewis and Miss Butler
is a splendid girl. Her name
is Em, and she makes me
think of you in every way all
the time. She is a very superior
girl has an excellent mind and
good education and is very
unusually good and unassuming
and sensible so you can see
for yourself her very strong the
resemblance is. She is large,
and stoops, her eyes are something
like yours but her hair is not, it
is very straight and has a
shade of red in it in the
sunshine but looks brown.
I am glad she could go down
to Macau for a rest. She is persecuted
with kindness. Dr and Mrs Graves
want to make a baby of her, and
pet her so that it is unbearable
and she never can be alone for
a minute scarcely. This must
seem ridiculous to you and it
is. I think if the married
ladies here in Canton would
give more time to mission work
they would not need to take up
so much of our time.
I am so sorry you did not get that
fan. I have had it ever since
Lucy was married and have
carried it a great deal. When I
bought it to carry at her wedding
I intended that you should have
it sometime I wonder whose
hands it has fallen into. There
is a gentleman here from Hong Chow
now a Mr [?Painter?] who I know
Lucy thought would have proposed
to her if Mr Leaman had not,
when she was in Hong Chow.
I do not know whether he had
it in mind or not, but he certainly
is a very different man from
Mr Leaman. He is not a
minister but is a missionary of
the Southern Presbyterian Board.
He went home to take charge
of one of their missionaries Dr
Fishmore whose mind became affected
when he had been out here about two
years. He was not so bad that Mr
Painter could exercise any control
over him but had enough to cause
him an untold amount of anxiety.
I have been owing Lucy a letter
a long time. She opened her
Boarding School Oct 13th
If Martha is still at home you must
tell her I do not write to her because
every letter I expect to hear of her
starting for China. I share with
you all in the grief and mortification
of having such a President as Cleveland.
I am s "Blaine Man" and I have
thought all the time that the
Prohibitionists were making a
great mistake to divide the Republican
party so. Still we will hope that
the Democrats will not wreck
the Ship of State. They no doubt
think it is high time for them to
have their turn.
[Continued vertically on the first page]
We hope
for another
mail from
home this
week.
With much
love for all
from
Hattie.
广州
1885 年 1 月 7 日
我亲爱的 Em，
我刚刚结束今晚在亨利先生家中举行的会议，
该会议现在由 Stein 小姐占据。
新浸信会兄弟希克森先生主持了会议。
在他开始很好之后，
他说得很好。
我认为他应该成为一名优秀的传教士。
希克森夫人很漂亮，
但他是世界上最朴实的人之一。
他的脸看起来好像被某种方式意外地压扁了。
现在与刘易斯小姐和巴特勒小姐一起在澳门的他们使团的杨小姐是一个出色的女孩。
她的名字是Em，
她让我无时无刻不在想你。
她是一个非常优秀的女孩，
有优秀的头脑和良好的教育，
非常好，
谦逊和明智，
所以你可以亲眼看到她非常相似。
她个子高大，
弯着腰，
她的眼睛有点像你的，
但她的头发不是，
头发很直，
在阳光下有点红色，
但看起来是棕色的。
我很高兴她能去澳门休息一下。
她被仁慈地迫害。
格雷夫斯博士和夫人想把她变成一个孩子，
宠爱她，
让她无法忍受，
她一刻也不能独处。
这对你来说一定很荒谬，
而且确实如此。
我想如果广州的已婚女士们愿意花更多的时间来传教，
她们就不需要占用我们太多的时间了。
我很抱歉你没有得到那个风扇。
自从露西结婚以来，
我就一直拥有它，
并且随身携带了很多。
当我买它在她的婚礼上随身携带时，
我打算在某个时候让你拥有它，
我想知道它落入了谁的手中。
这里有一位来自香港的绅士，
现在是一位画家先生，
我知道露西认为如果 Leaman 先生没有，
她在香港的时候会向她求婚。
我不知道他是否有这个想法，
但他肯定是一个与 Leaman 先生截然不同的人。
他不是牧师，
而是南方长老会的传教士。
他回家照顾他们的一位传教士菲什莫尔博士，
当他在这里大约两年时，
他的思想受到了影响。
他并没有那么糟糕，
以至于Painter先生可以对他进行任何控制，
但足以让他感到无尽的焦虑。
我欠露西一封信很久了。
她在 10 月 13 日开设了寄宿学校 如果玛莎还在家里，
你必须告诉她我不会给她写信，
因为我希望听到的每封信都是关于她开始前往中国的。
我与大家分享克利夫兰这样一位总统的悲痛和耻辱。
我是一个“布莱恩人”，
我一直认为禁酒主义者犯了一个很大的错误来分裂共和党。
我们仍然希望民主党不会破坏国家之船。
毫无疑问，
他们认为现在该轮到他们了。
[第一页垂直续] 我们希望这周能收到来自家里的另一封邮件。
海蒂对所有人都充满了爱。
Jan 7th 1885
My dear Em,
I have just come back
from the meeting this evening
which was held in Mr Henry's
house now occupied by Miss Stein.
Mr Hickson the new Baptist
brother led the meeting. He
speaks very well after he gets well
commenced. I should think
that he ought to make a good
missionary. Mrs Hickson is quite
pretty but he is one of the very
homeliest men in the world.
His face looks as though it had
been accidentally flattened in
some way. Miss Young of their
mission who is now in Macau
with Miss Lewis and Miss Butler
is a splendid girl. Her name
is Em, and she makes me
think of you in every way all
the time. She is a very superior
girl has an excellent mind and
good education and is very
unusually good and unassuming
and sensible so you can see
for yourself her very strong the
resemblance is. She is large,
and stoops, her eyes are something
like yours but her hair is not, it
is very straight and has a
shade of red in it in the
sunshine but looks brown.
I am glad she could go down
to Macau for a rest. She is persecuted
with kindness. Dr and Mrs Graves
want to make a baby of her, and
pet her so that it is unbearable
and she never can be alone for
a minute scarcely. This must
seem ridiculous to you and it
is. I think if the married
ladies here in Canton would
give more time to mission work
they would not need to take up
so much of our time.
I am so sorry you did not get that
fan. I have had it ever since
Lucy was married and have
carried it a great deal. When I
bought it to carry at her wedding
I intended that you should have
it sometime I wonder whose
hands it has fallen into. There
is a gentleman here from Hong Chow
now a Mr [?Painter?] who I know
Lucy thought would have proposed
to her if Mr Leaman had not,
when she was in Hong Chow.
I do not know whether he had
it in mind or not, but he certainly
is a very different man from
Mr Leaman. He is not a
minister but is a missionary of
the Southern Presbyterian Board.
He went home to take charge
of one of their missionaries Dr
Fishmore whose mind became affected
when he had been out here about two
years. He was not so bad that Mr
Painter could exercise any control
over him but had enough to cause
him an untold amount of anxiety.
I have been owing Lucy a letter
a long time. She opened her
Boarding School Oct 13th
If Martha is still at home you must
tell her I do not write to her because
every letter I expect to hear of her
starting for China. I share with
you all in the grief and mortification
of having such a President as Cleveland.
I am s "Blaine Man" and I have
thought all the time that the
Prohibitionists were making a
great mistake to divide the Republican
party so. Still we will hope that
the Democrats will not wreck
the Ship of State. They no doubt
think it is high time for them to
have their turn.
[Continued vertically on the first page]
We hope
for another
mail from
home this
week.
With much
love for all
from
Hattie.
广州
1885 年 1 月 7 日
我亲爱的 Em，
我刚刚结束今晚在亨利先生家中举行的会议，
该会议现在由 Stein 小姐占据。
新浸信会兄弟希克森先生主持了会议。
在他开始很好之后，
他说得很好。
我认为他应该成为一名优秀的传教士。
希克森夫人很漂亮，
但他是世界上最朴实的人之一。
他的脸看起来好像被某种方式意外地压扁了。
现在与刘易斯小姐和巴特勒小姐一起在澳门的他们使团的杨小姐是一个出色的女孩。
她的名字是Em，
她让我无时无刻不在想你。
她是一个非常优秀的女孩，
有优秀的头脑和良好的教育，
非常好，
谦逊和明智，
所以你可以亲眼看到她非常相似。
她个子高大，
弯着腰，
她的眼睛有点像你的，
但她的头发不是，
头发很直，
在阳光下有点红色，
但看起来是棕色的。
我很高兴她能去澳门休息一下。
她被仁慈地迫害。
格雷夫斯博士和夫人想把她变成一个孩子，
宠爱她，
让她无法忍受，
她一刻也不能独处。
这对你来说一定很荒谬，
而且确实如此。
我想如果广州的已婚女士们愿意花更多的时间来传教，
她们就不需要占用我们太多的时间了。
我很抱歉你没有得到那个风扇。
自从露西结婚以来，
我就一直拥有它，
并且随身携带了很多。
当我买它在她的婚礼上随身携带时，
我打算在某个时候让你拥有它，
我想知道它落入了谁的手中。
这里有一位来自香港的绅士，
现在是一位画家先生，
我知道露西认为如果 Leaman 先生没有，
她在香港的时候会向她求婚。
我不知道他是否有这个想法，
但他肯定是一个与 Leaman 先生截然不同的人。
他不是牧师，
而是南方长老会的传教士。
他回家照顾他们的一位传教士菲什莫尔博士，
当他在这里大约两年时，
他的思想受到了影响。
他并没有那么糟糕，
以至于Painter先生可以对他进行任何控制，
但足以让他感到无尽的焦虑。
我欠露西一封信很久了。
她在 10 月 13 日开设了寄宿学校 如果玛莎还在家里，
你必须告诉她我不会给她写信，
因为我希望听到的每封信都是关于她开始前往中国的。
我与大家分享克利夫兰这样一位总统的悲痛和耻辱。
我是一个“布莱恩人”，
我一直认为禁酒主义者犯了一个很大的错误来分裂共和党。
我们仍然希望民主党不会破坏国家之船。
毫无疑问，
他们认为现在该轮到他们了。
[第一页垂直续] 我们希望这周能收到来自家里的另一封邮件。
海蒂对所有人都充满了爱。
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Noyes, Harriet Newell, “Letter from Hattie to Em, January 7, 1885,” Letters from Harriet Noyes: Missionaries and Women's Education in Nineteenth Century China, accessed April 29, 2024, https://noyesletters.org/items/show/416.