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Section of Unsigned Letter

Death; Marriage; Travel; Women missionaries

In this partial letter, Martha writes about how the school opens again soon. She thinks how sad it will be returning home without her father to greet her. Hattie leaves for America in five weeks. She mentions the marriage of Mr. Dunlap and Mary Stoakes.

Kerr, Martha Noyes

Loose, The College of Wooster, Special Collections, Noyes Collection

Unpublished

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Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant

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We are looking for Miss Butler
at our house I mean on
the Hongkong or Macao str
to day. School opens on sat.
and they will no doubt feel
they must come up soon .
Do not know whether Hattie
will come or not. If she does
not the Dr and I will try to
go down and spend her
birthday with her. Am not
sure of this however as the
Dr has a patient it is very
doubtful whether he can leave
There will be guests here
and it may not be very easy
to get away. It does seem
so nice to know you are
even comfortably well. I know
you must be lonely now and
then I was going to say but
this must come over you at
all times and seasons.

It seems whenever I think of
it that I should break down
complete whenever I came in
sight of our dear old home.
Father and Mother have always
been there to welcome me
and I can hear father now
saying "We are glad to have
you back again my daughter"
But he will welcome us in
spirit. I feel he will be looking
down with his old smile and
his welcome will be just the
same only our dull ears will
not quite catch the sound of
the loving voice. He is [u]right
there[/u] only a veil hides him
from our eyes but not us
from his. That is it not us
from his. And when the
trainery he gave us keeps our
feel- from falling he rejoices
just as he alwayss has done
We who are here can not

tell whether he or you will
welcome us first but we are
sure of a welcome from some
of our dear ones at either gate
It is only five weeks from
to day before Hattie leaves for
America. The Dr has written
a note to Dr Ellinwood letting
him know of the possibility
of her coming. The next mail
will no doubt give you the
liberty to speak of it anywhere
Dr Thomson writes up saying
Hattie is "fairly well-" I hope the
home air will do for her
all that is necessary to restore
her. It would seem as though
her going might make our
coming a little doubtful but
we will see, she must go in
any case. The Dr is growing
older all the time and I do
so want to have you all
know him. But we shall

go if it is best. I am talking
about it know as thought it were
settled that we are going that
is to our own two selves - no one
else. A year will fly very quickly
I caught myself conculting
the Chinese Almanac this morning
to see when their year closed
so as to calculate about our
trip Now and then find my
self doing little things of that
kind. "Coming events cast their
shadows before" Mary Stoakes Dunlap
is reported as going on finely -
"Marriage was the making of her"
Had she not married would have
gone home very soon" - "Mr Dunlap
is very popular - and she is pop
ular too." He is bright and cheerful
and evidently a very good mis
sionary. We do get a little
politics sometimes - and [u]we[/u] do
not like the McKinley bill our
convention of Ministers and helpers

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