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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence from Martha Noyes Kerr Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kerr, Martha Noyes Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/en/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Description An account of the resource These are letters from Martha Noyes Kerr. Many of the letters were written during her time as a missionary and her marriage to John Glasgow Kerr. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1874-1914 Subject The topic of the resource Letters; Women missionaries; Women in missionary work; Travel; Marriage; Schools; Physicians' spouses; Physicians; Women teachers; Psychiatric hospitals; Hospitals Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document [Note: &c transcribed as etc] Over there in one of the boats is a lad of perhaps 14 years taking a partial bath. Things here are not always done in a corner and there is a boy with two bird cages and the little birds are singing beautifully I do believe I will have to have a bird sometime A nice looking Sin Shang now marches by carrying a fan. When these fans are not in use they put them in the neck of their shams and you almost in- variably see them with this article in the hand blowing away furious- ly or else sticking out at the back of the neck of the sham. This like the stockings and shoes seems to be a passport to respectability These respectable people always wear a close fitting skull cap either of blue [--sik--] silk bound with black or black bound with black satin. I saw one of the officials out the other day in a chair wearing a sham made of material like Mother's satin dress with large sleeve lined with most beautiful blue satin I do think he had the most beautiful hands I ever saw on a human being Perhaps I have already written about him Look at that man leading his little girl by the cue she does not seem to fancy it much and now that he sees me he laughs and seems to keep on in his bad ways Lillie and Miss Shaw just passed on their way to Shawmin and game me an invitation to ac- company them but I begged to be excused To tell the truth I never see the time when I am particularly anxious to promenade up and down the [illegible] and we use various ex- pedients to escape the necessity each as playing blind[--s--]man's buff Quoits etc What has that man got I am sure I do not know something that looks like our straw mats for the table, only many times bigger and there goes a boat rowed by a poor miserable looking woman filled with onions I should say Here comes that man back again with the mats and they prove to be most enormious palm leaf fans .I do think I have seen them 5 times as large as those we have at home If you look across on shawmin you will see some nice looking celestials They do not allow any of the common trash over there but I am sure I would not change places with any of those foreigners There comes a chair but it is so shut up that no [u]one[/u] could possibly tell who was there in There one of the boat women is washing the dishes, I expect she has had her rice and now propose to do up the work. This canal is the most convenient article I ever saw they dip up water to cook with [--get out--] and lean over the side of their boats wash dishes clothes hands babies any every thing. Their dish pan is always ready for any occasion Of course some people might feel an objection to drinking their tea and etc but if they think it is all right whose business is it to ob- ject There go five little ponies over on sha[--w--]min each led by its groom and there behind the last one is a big nice newfoundland dog Oh dear the ponies are little insignificant things but I do wish I could borrow that dog for a little while. If I stand here a little while longer I expect I will see some of the mis- tresses of the mansions on the island out taking an [illegible] on some of those self same horses. Dear dear what a racket these children out here are making their tongues run like [--a--] windmills. If I could rent one of those tongues it would save me some work There goes a man with a basket of Chinese [u]cakes[/u] but I have no wish to interfere with his peac[--e--]able possession of them Well I must stop now as it is team time and I must stop for this time - as I am not ready for our evening call. It looks like rain so we will go in the boat. Our boatman is sitting out on one end of it smoking and looking the personifica tion of comfort-- There is the bell good night Your loving Mattie Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Letter Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Section of a letter from Martha Subject The topic of the resource Fashion; Visitors, Foreign; Rivers; Horses Description An account of the resource Mattie writes from aboard a boat and describes all the things happening around her. She notices that respectable people seem to be wearing silk skull caps that are either blue or black. She sees a boat being rowed by women with onions. Mattie remarks that she would not change places with any foreigners. She notices people using the river for everything from cooking and dishes to washing bodies. Mattie also mentions the animals on board with her. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kerr, Noyes Martha Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Noyes Collection</a>, Box #3 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Unknown Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context noyes_c_cor_727 animals boats clothing fabric sightseeing