Letter from Henry to Clara, June 8, 1873

Letter from Henry to Clara, June 8, 1873

Dreams; Graduation (School); Horses; Sabbath; Sermons

Henry writes to Clara about hoping that Emily will graduate from Wooster University. He wishes that she will be the first woman to graduate. He responds to Clara about an epidemic sweeping the horses back home and says the horses in China can withstand anything. Henry had the sermon to preach Sabbath evening and people seemed please with it and they asked to have it printed.

Noyes, Henry Varnum

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

Unpublished

1873-06-08

Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant

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Wednesday Jun 8th 1873
My dear Sister Clara
The mail came
in last night bringing a
good budget of letters from
home. I am much obliged
to you for dreaming about
Hattie + me so often. I wish
I could dream of home oftener
than I do. But I don't want
your dream to come true
in all respects. When I get
home I don't want to have
to say to anybody that I
"can only stay three hours,"
I feel so sorry about your poor
thumb but of course it was
to be so. I hope it will get
so that you can use it in
play ing on the melodeon or
piano. As to [u]Em's[/u] graduating

[u]of course she must graduate.[/u]
I Expressed my sentiments
to [--ver--] her very freely in
my last letter. I hope she
will get it. Tell her from
me that we want her to
graduate on our account if
not her own. I want her to
be the first lady graduate
now that she can and I
think she will be a very
good one for the Institution
to start off with too.
What a dreadful Epi-
demic that "Eperzootie" (or
whatever you call it is). I hope
it won't kill off all the
nice horses. They will
have to send out here
and get a lot of Chinese
coolies if horses. They can
manage most anything.

No horse or mule or ox
Ever draws anything into
the great city of Canton.
Everything in this great city
that is moved be it great
or small is moved the
strength of men and not
of beasts. Up in the country
however they plough with the
water ox, and also use
him in drawing wide carts.
They also have wheelbarrows,
but in Canton it is nothing
but the coolie and his pole.
We are having cold
weather thermometer down
to 48. Now don't laugh
[u]It is[/u] cold out here when
the thermometer gets down
to that point and for
the last 2 or 3 days has
been dismally rainy.

We are in the midst of the
week of prayers and having very
good meetings. Your brother had
the sermon to preach Sabbath Evening
and the good brethren seemed
so well pleased with it that they
have asked me to have it printed
They promise to take 200 copies.
If I should have it printed I
will of course send you a
copy. The subject is that
given out by the Evangelical
Alliance or rather the last part
of it [illegible] "The Universal Ex-
tension of the Christian Church."
I hope to get time to write
to Hudson by this mail. Will
if I can. I must close this
as it most time to go to
our Evening prayer meeting.
With much love for all
Your Aff Bro
--Henry--



1873 年 6 月 8 日星期三
我亲爱的克拉拉修女
邮件来了
在昨晚带来了一个
良好的信件预算
家。我非常感激
对你的梦想
海蒂和我经常这样。我希望
我可以经常梦想家
比我做的。但我不想
你的梦想成真
在各方面。当我得到
我不想拥有的家
对任何人说我
“只能停留三个小时”
我为你的穷人感到难过
拇指，但当然是
是这样。我希望它会得到
这样你就可以在
弹奏 melodeon 或
钢琴。至于Em毕业

她当然必须毕业。
我表达了我的感受
对她非常自由地
我的最后一封信。我希望她
会得到它。告诉她从
我，我们希望她
如果在我们的帐户上毕业
不是她自己的。我要她
成为第一夫人毕业
现在她可以和我
认为她会是一个非常
对机构来说很好
也开始。
“Eperzootie”（或
不管你怎么称呼它）。我希望
它不会杀死所有的
好马。他们将
必须在这里发送
并获得很多中文
苦力，如果马。他们能
管理大多数事情。

没有马或骡子或牛
曾经吸引任何东西
伟大的城市广州。
这座伟大城市的一切
很感动
或小被移动
男人的力量，而不是
野兽。在国内
然而他们用
水牛，也用
他在画大推车。
他们还有独轮车，
但在广州什么都不是
但是苦力和他的杆子。
我们感冒了
天气温度计下降
到 48. 现在别笑了
这里冷的时候
温度计下降
到那时，为了
过去 2 或 3 天
阴雨连绵。

我们正处于
一周的祈祷和非常
好的会议。你哥哥有
宣讲安息日晚上的布道
好兄弟们似乎
他们对此非常满意
让我打印出来
他们承诺拿走 200 份。
如果我应该把它打印出来，我
当然会寄给你
复制。主题是
福音派发出的
联盟或更确切地说是最后一部分
其中[无法辨认]“通用前-
基督教会的紧张局势。”
希望有时间写
通过这封邮件到哈德逊。将要
如果我能。我必须关闭这个
因为大多数时候去
我们的晚祷会。
对所有人充满爱
你的兄弟
--亨利--

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