Letter from Henry to Father, June 13, 1874
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Title
Letter from Henry to Father, June 13, 1874
Subject
Baptism; Death; Poverty; Health
Description
Henry writes to his father about the mission. Lillie is off to Japan, leaving Hattie with lots to do. He talks about the recent baptisms. There was a 17-year-old girl who had been baptized and began working for Miss Shaw but became suddenly sick and died in a week.
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Noyes, Henry Varnum
Source
The College of Wooster, Special Collections, Noyes Collection, Box #3
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Unpublished
Date
1874-06-13
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eng (English)
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Canton June 13th 1874
My dear Father
I presume you
will be quite taken by
surprise to hear from Canton
again so soon as it is only
6 days since we sent out
last letters. The steamer made
a quick passage over from San-
Francisco and they are sending
her out again a hurry.
We have not got the letters yet
but they will come up from
Hong Kong to day as the American
steamer was seen coming into the
harbor just as the Canton str
left Hong Kong on Saturday. We
are all in usual health but
the hot weather is here now
which takes the energy out of
us. Miss Shaw is quite unwell
so that she can do little and
Lillie Happer has gone to Japan
so that it throws more work
upon Hattie than she ought to
have but I hope she will get
through it.
Our Communion was
two weeks ago. There [--were two--] were
two received by baptism. Their
Communion at the other end was
yesterday. There were two baptised
there. One of the church
members died last week. It
was quite an interesting girl.
She was about 17 years old.
Miss Shaw got acquainted with
the family in her visits. They
were so utterly shiftless and
untidy that we have always
called them the "dirty family"
The mother joined the church and
afterward this daughter last year.
She was a very earnest whole
souled girl and very faithful. She
seemed the best of the family. She
met with a good deal of reviling
from the neighbors but was faithful
in her testimony for the Master not-
withstanding. Miss Shaw employed her
to sew for her and she was improving
and getting along very well when
she was suddenly taken sick and
in about a week died. More than
once she and her mother [--ar--] have
gone without food all day Sunday
rather than work to get it and then
the girl would come to her work
on Monday and say nothing to anybody
about it. I do not suppose that she
ever did this after Miss Shaw got
to know how very destitute they were
sometimes. They say that when she
was sewing she would often put down
her work and go into an adjoining
room to pray. I cannot in a short
letter tell all about her, but she was
happy in the near prospect of death
and tried to comfort her father
and mother before she died. None
of us have a doubt but that
she is now with Jesus himself
where they hunger and thirst no
more. The little girl "Shung"
about whom I wrote in the "Foreign
Missionary" has been having a
hard time. I hope that in some
way [--brght--] brighter days are before her
but we do not know just how matters
will turn. She is in [u]our house[/u] now
and so long as she and her mother wish
her to be here. Nothing less than
an official order from the US Consul
shall taker her away. We shall be
able to write about her I hope more sat-
isfactorily after awhile. But I must stop
this morning
With very much love to all
Your Aff Son
-- Henry --
广州 1874 年 6 月 13 日
我亲爱的父亲
我猜你
会被
听到广州的消息感到惊讶
再次尽快，因为它只是
自我们发出后 6 天
最后的字母。做的蒸笼
从
旧金山，他们正在发送
她又急了。
我们还没有收到信
但他们会从
香港今天是美国人
有人看到轮船进入
就像广州海峡一样的海港
周六离开香港。我们
都在正常的健康，但
炎热的天气现在来了
这将能量从
我们。肖小姐身体不适
这样她就可以做的很少，
莉莉·哈珀去了日本
这样它就会产生更多的工作
在海蒂身上，她不应该
有，但我希望她能得到
通过这。
我们的圣餐是
两周前。曾经有
两人受洗。他们的
另一端的圣餐是
昨天。有两个受洗的
那里。教堂之一
成员上周去世。它
是个很有趣的女孩。
她大约17岁。
肖小姐结识了
她来访的家人。他们
如此彻底的无动于衷
不整洁，我们一直
称他们为“肮脏的家庭”
母亲加入了教会，
后来这个女儿去年。
她是一个非常认真的整体
有灵魂的女孩，非常忠诚。她
似乎是家里最好的。她
遭到大量辱骂
来自邻居，但很忠实
尽管在她为师父作的见证中。
肖小姐雇用了她
为她缝制，她正在进步
相处得很好
她突然生病了
在大约一周内死亡。多于
一旦她和她的母亲
星期天一整天没吃东西
而不是努力得到它然后
女孩会来上班
星期一，什么都不对任何人说
关于它。我不认为她
肖小姐得手后有没有这样做过
知道他们有多穷
有时。他们说当她
正在缝衣服，她经常放下
她的工作并进入相邻的
祈祷的空间。我不能在短时间内
信告诉了她的一切，但她是
在濒临死亡的前景中感到高兴
并试图安慰她的父亲
和她死前的母亲。没有任何
我们有一个疑问，但
她现在与耶稣本人在一起
他们在哪里饥渴不
更多的。小女孩“顺”
关于我在“外国
传教士”一直有一个
困难时期。我希望在某些
更光明的日子在她面前
但我们不知道到底有多重要
将转向。她现在在我们家
只要她和她妈妈愿意
她来这里。不低于
美国领事的正式命令
会把她带走。我们将是
能够写她，我希望一段时间后更令人满意。
但我必须停下来
今天早上
怀着对所有人的爱
你的儿子
——亨利——
My dear Father
I presume you
will be quite taken by
surprise to hear from Canton
again so soon as it is only
6 days since we sent out
last letters. The steamer made
a quick passage over from San-
Francisco and they are sending
her out again a hurry.
We have not got the letters yet
but they will come up from
Hong Kong to day as the American
steamer was seen coming into the
harbor just as the Canton str
left Hong Kong on Saturday. We
are all in usual health but
the hot weather is here now
which takes the energy out of
us. Miss Shaw is quite unwell
so that she can do little and
Lillie Happer has gone to Japan
so that it throws more work
upon Hattie than she ought to
have but I hope she will get
through it.
Our Communion was
two weeks ago. There [--were two--] were
two received by baptism. Their
Communion at the other end was
yesterday. There were two baptised
there. One of the church
members died last week. It
was quite an interesting girl.
She was about 17 years old.
Miss Shaw got acquainted with
the family in her visits. They
were so utterly shiftless and
untidy that we have always
called them the "dirty family"
The mother joined the church and
afterward this daughter last year.
She was a very earnest whole
souled girl and very faithful. She
seemed the best of the family. She
met with a good deal of reviling
from the neighbors but was faithful
in her testimony for the Master not-
withstanding. Miss Shaw employed her
to sew for her and she was improving
and getting along very well when
she was suddenly taken sick and
in about a week died. More than
once she and her mother [--ar--] have
gone without food all day Sunday
rather than work to get it and then
the girl would come to her work
on Monday and say nothing to anybody
about it. I do not suppose that she
ever did this after Miss Shaw got
to know how very destitute they were
sometimes. They say that when she
was sewing she would often put down
her work and go into an adjoining
room to pray. I cannot in a short
letter tell all about her, but she was
happy in the near prospect of death
and tried to comfort her father
and mother before she died. None
of us have a doubt but that
she is now with Jesus himself
where they hunger and thirst no
more. The little girl "Shung"
about whom I wrote in the "Foreign
Missionary" has been having a
hard time. I hope that in some
way [--brght--] brighter days are before her
but we do not know just how matters
will turn. She is in [u]our house[/u] now
and so long as she and her mother wish
her to be here. Nothing less than
an official order from the US Consul
shall taker her away. We shall be
able to write about her I hope more sat-
isfactorily after awhile. But I must stop
this morning
With very much love to all
Your Aff Son
-- Henry --
广州 1874 年 6 月 13 日
我亲爱的父亲
我猜你
会被
听到广州的消息感到惊讶
再次尽快，因为它只是
自我们发出后 6 天
最后的字母。做的蒸笼
从
旧金山，他们正在发送
她又急了。
我们还没有收到信
但他们会从
香港今天是美国人
有人看到轮船进入
就像广州海峡一样的海港
周六离开香港。我们
都在正常的健康，但
炎热的天气现在来了
这将能量从
我们。肖小姐身体不适
这样她就可以做的很少，
莉莉·哈珀去了日本
这样它就会产生更多的工作
在海蒂身上，她不应该
有，但我希望她能得到
通过这。
我们的圣餐是
两周前。曾经有
两人受洗。他们的
另一端的圣餐是
昨天。有两个受洗的
那里。教堂之一
成员上周去世。它
是个很有趣的女孩。
她大约17岁。
肖小姐结识了
她来访的家人。他们
如此彻底的无动于衷
不整洁，我们一直
称他们为“肮脏的家庭”
母亲加入了教会，
后来这个女儿去年。
她是一个非常认真的整体
有灵魂的女孩，非常忠诚。她
似乎是家里最好的。她
遭到大量辱骂
来自邻居，但很忠实
尽管在她为师父作的见证中。
肖小姐雇用了她
为她缝制，她正在进步
相处得很好
她突然生病了
在大约一周内死亡。多于
一旦她和她的母亲
星期天一整天没吃东西
而不是努力得到它然后
女孩会来上班
星期一，什么都不对任何人说
关于它。我不认为她
肖小姐得手后有没有这样做过
知道他们有多穷
有时。他们说当她
正在缝衣服，她经常放下
她的工作并进入相邻的
祈祷的空间。我不能在短时间内
信告诉了她的一切，但她是
在濒临死亡的前景中感到高兴
并试图安慰她的父亲
和她死前的母亲。没有任何
我们有一个疑问，但
她现在与耶稣本人在一起
他们在哪里饥渴不
更多的。小女孩“顺”
关于我在“外国
传教士”一直有一个
困难时期。我希望在某些
更光明的日子在她面前
但我们不知道到底有多重要
将转向。她现在在我们家
只要她和她妈妈愿意
她来这里。不低于
美国领事的正式命令
会把她带走。我们将是
能够写她，我希望一段时间后更令人满意。
但我必须停下来
今天早上
怀着对所有人的爱
你的儿子
——亨利——
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Noyes, Henry Varnum, “Letter from Henry to Father, June 13, 1874,” Letters from Harriet Noyes: Missionaries and Women's Education in Nineteenth Century China, accessed May 14, 2024, https://noyesletters.org/items/show/749.