Letter from Hattie to Em, October 10, 1885
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Letter from Hattie to Em, October 10, 1885
Subject
Hospitality; Physicians; Women missionaries; Buildings--Additions
Description
In a letter to Emily, Harriet notes that she is looking forward to seeing Martha soon. It has almost been eight years since she was last home, but she feels she hasn't done as much the past couple of years as she would have liked to. Over the past few months, she and the other women in her house have been caring for their doctors. She and Miss Butler were so relieved when their boarders left. She mentions the Kerrs and Dr. and Mrs. Swan who have stayed with them. Harriet talks about how Mr. Fulton and Dr. Kerr are planning to get a location in the country. They are planning to build a verandah on the back of the school building.
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Noyes, Harriet Newell
Source
The College of Wooster, Special Collections, Noyes Collection, Box #3
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Unpublished
Date
1885-10-10
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eng (English)
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Canton China
Oct 10th 1885.
My dear Em -
I suppose before this
Martha has again left home
and just about the time
this reaches you I will
probably be welcoming her
back to China . I hope she
will keep well and strong so
that she will be able to do
the Mission work she desires
to take up. In five days
more it will be eight years
since I left home. I do
not think it seems as long
as the first eight years.
The work has been interrupted
so much the past two years
that it seems as though
we have not been accomplishing
much. The past six
months we have spent a
good deal of time taking
care of our doctors. During
the summer it was too
hot to keep dressed up for
company all day so we
had to dress to go down to
meals three times a day
and as soon as they were
gone we would come
up stairs and put on our
wrappers. The morning
after they all went away
Miss Butler said she thought
she never felt so much relieved
in her life before. I hope
we will not feel obliged
to take boarders again
soon. We did not take any
board from Dr Kerr and
Dr Swan. They were only
here two weeks. I presume
I have told you that we
like Dr + Mrs Swan very
much Dr Swan especially.
Mrs Swan has fever
today - it is rather soon to
commence having fever.
I hope she will be able
to shake it off. Dr Kerr
has gone for a trip in the
country, with the Fultons.
They are trying their own
plan for getting a location
in the country. No on excepting
themselves has much faith
in their success. I remember
Mr Henry said once the
question in Mr Fulton's case
was to put time where he
would do the least harm.
We hoped Miss Fulton would
exert a [u]steadying[/u] influence
over her brother but she
is just like him only perhaps
a "[u]little more so[/u]." Dr Swan
has lent me Mr Henry's
book. I am as much
distressed by what he [u]did[/u]
say about me as what he
[u]did not[/u] say about Henry.
I would [u]so much rather[/u]
he would have said what
he had to say about Henry.
I do not see why he did not
mention his name with Mr
Fabers who came here only
a little before Henry ---
Henry is like Dr Kerr it
does not seems as though
he has quite his share of
the "praise of men" in this
life but it will be all
right at last. Miss Butler
is writing letters to missionary
societies . I have not
written one this summer and
now the vacation is almost
over. We have seemed
to have our time so
filled up. We have been
having a verandah built
at the back of the school building
about two thirds of the length
of the building , It will
help to break the force of this
North wind which is
sometimes [u]very cold[/u] here
I am so very sleepy that I
must say goodnight. With love
Hattie
中国广州
1885 年 10 月 10 日。
我亲爱的 Em-我想在此之前玛莎再次离开家，
就在你收到这封信的时候，
我可能会欢迎她回到中国。
我希望她能保持健康和坚强，
以便她能够完成她渴望承担的宣教工作。
再过五天，
我离家就八年了。
我觉得好像没有前八年那么长。
在过去的两年里，
这项工作被打断了太多，
以至于我们似乎没有取得多少成就。
在过去的六个月里，
我们花了很多时间照顾我们的医生。
夏天太热了，
整天都穿着衣服去陪伴，
所以我们不得不穿上衣服，
一天三顿饭下来，
他们一走，
我们就上楼梯穿上我们的包装纸。
他们都走后的第二天早上，
巴特勒小姐说她认为她以前从未感到如此轻松过。
我希望我们不会觉得有义务很快再次接受寄宿生。
我们没有接受 Kerr 医生和 Swan 医生的任何董事会。
他们只在这里两周。
我想我已经告诉过你，
我们非常喜欢斯旺医生和斯旺夫人，
尤其是斯旺医生。
斯旺夫人今天发烧了——很快就开始发烧了。
我希望她能摆脱它。
克尔医生和富尔顿一家去乡下旅行了。
他们正在尝试自己的计划，
以在该国获得一席之地。
没有对自己的成功有很大的信心。
我记得亨利先生曾经说过，
富尔顿先生的问题是把时间放在他伤害最小的地方。
我们希望富尔顿小姐能够对她的兄弟施加稳定的影响，
但她和他一样只是也许“多一点”。
斯旺医生把亨利先生的书借给了我。
我对他对我的评价和他对亨利的未评价一样感到苦恼。
我更希望他能说出他对亨利的看法。
我不明白他为什么不向比亨利早一点来到这里的费伯斯先生提起他的名字——亨利就像克尔医生，
似乎他在这方面没有多少“人的赞誉”生活，
但最后一切都会好起来的。
巴特勒小姐正在给传教团体写信。
今年夏天我还没有写一篇，
现在假期快结束了。
我们的时间似乎已经被填满了。
我们一直在学校大楼后面建了一个阳台，
大约是建筑长度的三分之二，
这将有助于打破这里有时很冷的北风的力量。
我很困，
我必须说晚安。
带着爱，
海蒂
Oct 10th 1885.
My dear Em -
I suppose before this
Martha has again left home
and just about the time
this reaches you I will
probably be welcoming her
back to China . I hope she
will keep well and strong so
that she will be able to do
the Mission work she desires
to take up. In five days
more it will be eight years
since I left home. I do
not think it seems as long
as the first eight years.
The work has been interrupted
so much the past two years
that it seems as though
we have not been accomplishing
much. The past six
months we have spent a
good deal of time taking
care of our doctors. During
the summer it was too
hot to keep dressed up for
company all day so we
had to dress to go down to
meals three times a day
and as soon as they were
gone we would come
up stairs and put on our
wrappers. The morning
after they all went away
Miss Butler said she thought
she never felt so much relieved
in her life before. I hope
we will not feel obliged
to take boarders again
soon. We did not take any
board from Dr Kerr and
Dr Swan. They were only
here two weeks. I presume
I have told you that we
like Dr + Mrs Swan very
much Dr Swan especially.
Mrs Swan has fever
today - it is rather soon to
commence having fever.
I hope she will be able
to shake it off. Dr Kerr
has gone for a trip in the
country, with the Fultons.
They are trying their own
plan for getting a location
in the country. No on excepting
themselves has much faith
in their success. I remember
Mr Henry said once the
question in Mr Fulton's case
was to put time where he
would do the least harm.
We hoped Miss Fulton would
exert a [u]steadying[/u] influence
over her brother but she
is just like him only perhaps
a "[u]little more so[/u]." Dr Swan
has lent me Mr Henry's
book. I am as much
distressed by what he [u]did[/u]
say about me as what he
[u]did not[/u] say about Henry.
I would [u]so much rather[/u]
he would have said what
he had to say about Henry.
I do not see why he did not
mention his name with Mr
Fabers who came here only
a little before Henry ---
Henry is like Dr Kerr it
does not seems as though
he has quite his share of
the "praise of men" in this
life but it will be all
right at last. Miss Butler
is writing letters to missionary
societies . I have not
written one this summer and
now the vacation is almost
over. We have seemed
to have our time so
filled up. We have been
having a verandah built
at the back of the school building
about two thirds of the length
of the building , It will
help to break the force of this
North wind which is
sometimes [u]very cold[/u] here
I am so very sleepy that I
must say goodnight. With love
Hattie
中国广州
1885 年 10 月 10 日。
我亲爱的 Em-我想在此之前玛莎再次离开家，
就在你收到这封信的时候，
我可能会欢迎她回到中国。
我希望她能保持健康和坚强，
以便她能够完成她渴望承担的宣教工作。
再过五天，
我离家就八年了。
我觉得好像没有前八年那么长。
在过去的两年里，
这项工作被打断了太多，
以至于我们似乎没有取得多少成就。
在过去的六个月里，
我们花了很多时间照顾我们的医生。
夏天太热了，
整天都穿着衣服去陪伴，
所以我们不得不穿上衣服，
一天三顿饭下来，
他们一走，
我们就上楼梯穿上我们的包装纸。
他们都走后的第二天早上，
巴特勒小姐说她认为她以前从未感到如此轻松过。
我希望我们不会觉得有义务很快再次接受寄宿生。
我们没有接受 Kerr 医生和 Swan 医生的任何董事会。
他们只在这里两周。
我想我已经告诉过你，
我们非常喜欢斯旺医生和斯旺夫人，
尤其是斯旺医生。
斯旺夫人今天发烧了——很快就开始发烧了。
我希望她能摆脱它。
克尔医生和富尔顿一家去乡下旅行了。
他们正在尝试自己的计划，
以在该国获得一席之地。
没有对自己的成功有很大的信心。
我记得亨利先生曾经说过，
富尔顿先生的问题是把时间放在他伤害最小的地方。
我们希望富尔顿小姐能够对她的兄弟施加稳定的影响，
但她和他一样只是也许“多一点”。
斯旺医生把亨利先生的书借给了我。
我对他对我的评价和他对亨利的未评价一样感到苦恼。
我更希望他能说出他对亨利的看法。
我不明白他为什么不向比亨利早一点来到这里的费伯斯先生提起他的名字——亨利就像克尔医生，
似乎他在这方面没有多少“人的赞誉”生活，
但最后一切都会好起来的。
巴特勒小姐正在给传教团体写信。
今年夏天我还没有写一篇，
现在假期快结束了。
我们的时间似乎已经被填满了。
我们一直在学校大楼后面建了一个阳台，
大约是建筑长度的三分之二，
这将有助于打破这里有时很冷的北风的力量。
我很困，
我必须说晚安。
带着爱，
海蒂
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Noyes, Harriet Newell, “Letter from Hattie to Em, October 10, 1885,” Letters from Harriet Noyes: Missionaries and Women's Education in Nineteenth Century China, accessed May 2, 2024, https://noyesletters.org/items/show/440.