Letter from Henry and Hattie to Father, March 14, 1876

Letter from Henry and Hattie to Father, March 14, 1876

Travel; Steamboats; Preaching

Henry is writing to his father from a boat. They are traveling on the Red Sea, headed towards the Suez Canal and Port Said. They were detained in Singapore waiting for the steamer and stopped in Ceylon on the way. They took a train to Kandy. He preached in Ceylon and talked about the congregation numbers.

Noyes, Henry Varnum

The College of Wooster, Special Collections, Noyes Collection, Box #3

Unpublished

1876-03-14

Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant

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Steamer [?Preane?] - Red Sea
March 14th 1876

Dear Father
As we are to have an
opportunity of mailing letters in a
few days I must write something
to send home. We are quietly sailing
along this morning on the blue
waters of the Red Sea and in a
day or two more will be at
Suez - two days through the canal
will take us to Port Said where
we are hoping to get letters from
home. The journey seems rather
long we are so anxious to get
along. We were detained eleven
days in Singapore waiting for
a steamer - and then our steamer
stopped [?5?] days in Colombo on the

island of Ceylon to take in
cargo. It gave us an oppor-
tunity however to see a little
of the island and its inhabi-
tants. We arrived on Thursday
and on Friday morning went
ashore and took a trip of
75 miles into the interior by
railroads to Kandy the capital.
It was the first ride for me
in the cars since leaving
New York ten years ago. The
scenery the latter part of the
way was mountainous and
very fine indeed.
I was much pleased
with the appearance of many
of the people whom I saw.
I should think they would
be an interesting people to labor

among. We went back on Saturday
to Colombo. Mr [?J?]ebb a mission-
ary of the Eng Wes Mission in Kandy
asked me very cordially to remain
over the sabbath and preach for
him but we had not come pre-
pared to do so. I would have
been very glad to have preached
one sermon in Ceylon. Kandy is
not a very large place. Mr
[?J?]ebb said that he usually had
a congregation of about 200
parly English and partly [?Cuigha-
lese?] who can understand
English. We have a service
Every sabbath morning on board
ship. The captain reads the
English service and I preach.
There are 16 passengers besides
9 children in all [u]25[/u]. We have

had a very smooth passage so far
a fortunate circumstance for Bella
as she is always seasick when it
is rough. If we go to Palestine
we shall try to do it as speedily as
possibl[--y--]e as we are very anxious to
get home especially on Frank's ac-
count. But for the fact that it
is probably the only opportunity we
shall ever have of seeing Jerusalem
we could hardly feel willing to stop
at all. We got letters at Singapore
from home the day before we left
which partly reconciled us to the
detention there. It has been
hot weather ever since 3 days
after we left Canton until we
entered the Red Sea and now
as we are moving north at the
rate of nearly 200 miles a day
it is getting cooler so that thick
clothing is comfortable. I must
say good bye for this morning. We
shall have much to talk about when
we get home. Much love to all
Your Aff Son -Henry --
[Note: Additional note sideways on page one]
March 16th at noon We are just off the range of mountains in which
Sinai + Horeb are situated. It seems strange to be looking at the very mountains where
God appeared to Moses and where the ten commandments were written. I will tell

You how they look when I got home.

[Note: Additional note from Harriet on page one]
March 16th - My dear Father Henry has given me permission
to write a few lines in his letter to gratify my fancy of
sending you a few words from the vicinity of
Mt Sinai and Mt Horeb. It is a lovely morning
and we are in sight of land on both sides on
the left we see the land of Egypt and the range
of mountains through which the Israelites
came down to the Red Sea. I will
not write more
for I fear it
will trouble
you to read
With much
love for Mother
and all the
dear ones at
Home from
Your aff daughter
Hattie -



Steamship Preane - 红海
1876 年 3 月 14 日

亲爱的爸爸
正如我们要拥有一个
邮寄信件的机会
几天我必须写点东西
送回家。我们静静地航行
沿着今天早上的蓝色
红海水域和
一天或两天将在
苏伊士 - 两天通过运河
将带我们去塞得港
我们希望收到来自
家。旅程似乎相当
长久以来，我们如此渴望得到
沿着。我们被拘留了十一
在新加坡等待的日子
蒸笼 - 然后是我们的蒸笼
在科伦坡停留 5 天

锡兰岛
货物。它让我们有机会看到一点
岛屿及其居民。我们星期四到达
周五早上去了
上岸旅行
75英里进入内部
通往首都康提的铁路。
这是我的第一次骑行
离开后在车里
十年前的纽约。这
风光后期
路是多山的
确实很好。
我很高兴
随着许多人的出现
我看到的人。
我应该认为他们会
做一个有趣的人

之中。我们星期六回去了
到科伦坡。杰布先生是康提英国卫斯理会的传教士
非常亲切地要求我留下来
在安息日宣讲
他，但我们没有准备好这样做。我会
很高兴传道
在锡兰的一次布道。康提是
不是一个很大的地方。先生
杰布说他通常有
约200人的会众
能听懂英语和部分刚果语的人
英语。我们有服务
每个安息日早上在船上
船。船长朗读
英语服务和我讲道。
除此之外还有16名乘客
总共 9 个孩子 25 个。我们有

到目前为止顺利通过
对贝拉来说是一个幸运的情况
因为她总是晕船
很粗糙。如果我们去巴勒斯坦
我们将尽可能快地做到这一点
可能，因为我们非常渴望
回家，尤其是弗兰克的帐户。但事实上它
可能是我们唯一的机会
将永远看到耶路撒冷
我们几乎不愿意停下来
一点也不。我们在新加坡收到了信件
我们离开的前一天从家里
这部分地使我们对
拘留在那里。它一直
3天以来天气炎热
在我们离开广州之后直到我们
进入红海，现在
当我们向北移动时
每天近200英里的速度
天气越来越冷，这么厚
衣服很舒服。我必须
今天早上说再见。我们
什么时候有很多话要说
我们回家。非常爱所有人
你的爱夫儿子-亨利-
[注：第一页的附加说明]
3 月 16 日中午 我们就在山的范围内
位于西奈和何烈。看着那里的山脉似乎很奇怪
上帝向摩西显现，十诫写在那儿。我会告诉

你看我回家后的样子。

[注：哈里特在第一页的附加说明]
3 月 16 日 - 我亲爱的亨利神父允许我
在他的信中写几行来满足我的幻想
送你几句话从附近
西奈山和何烈山。这是一个美好的早晨
我们看到了两边的土地
左边我们看到埃及的土地和山脉
以色列人经过的山脉
来到红海。我会
不多写
因为我害怕它
会麻烦
你读
有很多
对母亲的爱
和所有的
亲爱的
家从
你的女儿
海蒂——

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