Section of Unsigned Letter

Section of Unsigned Letter

Missionaries; Poor--Health and hygiene; Chinese language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers; Rain and rainfall

This section of a letter, most likely written by Martha, mentions a "Bible woman" whose son has studied to be a missionary in Hong Kong and has moved to California. A Miss Taylor has returned whose poor health has slowed her studies for three months. Mr. Faber, a missionary from Germany, has been recalled. He was an accomplished student of Chinese. It has rained constantly, endangering a rice crop and damaging the house.

Kerr, Martha Noyes

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

Unpublished

n. d.

Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant

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to sadden the hearts of any of
our Missionaries. We can
always carry our grief to the
Saviour and he will help
us hear what he has laid
upon us. Do not any of
you feel a moment of anx-
iety about me - for I hope
to get along nicely with my
part of the work while Hattie
is away. I shall not be able
to write nearly as many letters
as she did but we have one
in the house who I am sure
will supply the deficiency in
that line - and if the ladies hear
from one that will do -
I have been troubled since
coming to China about sleeping
but since I have taken charge
of the school I run about so
much during the day that I
find sleep comes of itself --

people say if one eats and
sleeps well there is no fear
but they will be able to get
on in Canton and I can do both
[Note: &c transcribed as etc]

The teacher of the Boarding
school who has been sick for
a few days is better has been
in school again the last two
days -One of our Bible women
is feeling very badly just now
U Sinai the one who has
written to you. Her son a
lad of 17 who has been studying
for the past year in Hong Kong
with an eye to the ministry has
quite suddenly decided to go to
California is to leave on the next
steamer. Of course his Mother is
greatly disappointed She has a son
already in America from whom she
has not heard for years which
greatly increases the trial of parting
with this one. They are spending

their last eve, together in Henrys
study could be alone there and we
felt they ought to have an oppor-
tunity of seeing each other by them
selves. Ship going to Cal. breaks
in upon a good many of our
plans and prospects but no doubt
will work out for the best in
some way -----------
I left this at the ringing of
the door bell and found little
Miss Taylor {Hattie can tell you
all about her} had come in to
spend the eve, so now it is bed
time. The moments are very
precious to us now adays but I
was very glad to give a little of it
to her for she has not been able
from ill health to study for
nearly three months is better now
and we hope it will continue
One of the German Missionaries
Mr Farber called this afternoon
to say good bye preparatory to

leaving for Germany on Thurs.
He has been here 10 years and
his throat is in about the same
state as Henry's I suppose - a
faithful hard working man who
has made more progress in the
study of Chinese then almost any
one considering the time he has
been here. It has been raining
every [u]single[/u] day now for [u]42[/u]
days with [u]2[/u] days of sunshine
for a change - and to night the
clouds look as if we might
expect the [u]same[/u] for the [u]same[/u]
time to come. The farmers
are in great distress lest the
rice crop should prove a fail
ure - and my teacher to day
said he never remembered to have
seen such constant rain for
so long - several times the
walls furniture etc to have been
so wet as to make it necessary
to wipe it all with a cloth and
twice the pictures have wrinkled
up as if dipped into water

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