Letter from Henry to Mother, February 9, 1883

Letter from Henry to Mother, February 9, 1883

Children and death; Suffering; Travel; Boarding schools

Henry writes to his mother to say that everyone is doing well now. Richard got over his sickness and is very lively now. They attended a funeral for a little girl who died at three months old; she was the daughter of the British Vice Consul. Mr. White and Dr. Thomson have been trying to get a house because the chapel is too small to have their families stay with them there. He concludes by discussing his plans for his mission school.

Noyes, Henry Varnum

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

Unpublished

1883-02-09

Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant

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Canton Feb 19th 1883
My dear Mother,
I expect I have re-
cieved a number of letters
from you since I wrote
to you last. You understand
though, I know, that I always
[u] think [/u] of all when I [u] write [/u] to
[u] any [/u]. I am glad to hear
that Mattie is improving. I
hope she will get thoroughly
well and strong. I am
anxious to know [--have--]
how Edward's leg serves him
when he gets so that he
can walk about on it, & how
you will all get along on
the farm, during the Spring &
summer. We are all very
well now. Richard Varnum
seems to have got pretty much
over the trouble that he had

and plays around the house
and yard lively now.
There is to be a funeral
this afternoon of a little child
who died last night. She was
only three months old. The
daughter of the British Vice
Consul. She was the first
and only child. Her father
has been in China some
ten years but the mother
Mrs Holland only about a
year. I suppose they will
feel the death very much.
The child had been just
hanging between life and
death for two days. Bella
helped take care of it night
before last and about three
o-clock in the morning it
seemed as though the end
was near but the child

lingered on in a good deal
of suffering until the next
evening. Our Mission
scatter about more than they
used to as we are getting
so much more country work
Mr White has been at Lien-
Chau ever since last [?her?]
He left Nov 10th. I suppose
he will come down for a
visit before long as Mrs
White and the baby are here
Dr Thomson is also up there.
He has just gone back from
a short visit to Canton. They
have been trying to get a
house but have not succeeded
as yet. The chapel is small.
The two men can live in
it a sort of a way but they

cannot take their families to
live there. They think of trying
to live in boats after the warm
weather comes on. We ex-
pect to go for [--at--] another trip
to San-Ui about the middle of
March and will be gone
nearly six weeks. I pre-
sume I shall not be in
the country quite so much
this year as I was last, as
I have commenced teaching
an hour a day in Dr Happer's
school and expect to have
some boarding scholars in
the school on the premises.
Am going to get a cook and
then provide the boys with
bed-boards, musquito-curtains
a table and two stools for each
room and they pay $1.00 a
month towards their rice. The mission
adding about 25 cents more vegetables.
[Written vertically]
Now I must close Love from Bella & the children us
as very much from Your aff Son



广州 1883 年 2 月 19 日
我亲爱的妈妈，
我希望我收到了一些信件
自从我写了你
最后给你。你明白
虽然，我知道，我总是
当我写信时想到所有
任何。我很高兴听到
马蒂正在进步。我
希望她能彻底
又好又强。我是
急于知道
爱德华的腿如何为他服务
当他得到这样他
可以在上面走动，以及如何
你们都会相处的
农场，在春天和
夏天。我们都很
现在好了。理查德·瓦纳姆
似乎得到了很多
在他遇到的麻烦

在房子周围玩耍
现在院子里热闹了。
必须举行葬礼
一个小孩的这个下午
谁昨晚死了。她
只有三个月大。这
英国副总统的女儿
领事。她是第一个
和唯一的孩子。她的父亲
来过中国一些
十年，但母亲
霍兰德夫人只有一个
年。我想他们会
非常感慨死亡。
孩子刚刚
徘徊在生活和之间
死两天。贝拉
晚上帮忙打理
前三点左右
凌晨一点
似乎结束了
就在附近，但孩子

逗留了很多
直到下一次的痛苦
晚上。我们的任务
比他们分散更多
我们已经习惯了
更多的乡村工作
怀特先生一直在 Lien-
周从去年开始
他于 11 月 10 日离开。我想
他会下来
不久前拜访夫人
白和宝宝来了
汤姆森博士也在上面。
他刚从
短暂访问广州。他们
一直试图得到一个
房子但没有成功
到目前为止。礼拜堂很小。
两个人可以住
这是一种方式，但他们

不能带家人去
住在那里。他们想尝试
温暖后住在船上
天气来了。我们希望再去一次旅行
到 San-Ui 大约在
三月会消失
将近六个星期。我想我不会在
这个国家相当多
今年和我去年一样
我已经开始教学
在哈珀医生那里每天一个小时
学校，并期望有
一些寄宿学者
校舍内的学校。
我要请一个厨师和
然后为男孩们提供
床单、蚊帐
每人一张桌子和两个凳子
房间，他们支付 1.00 美元
月朝他们的饭。使命
添加约 25 美分的蔬菜。
【竖着写】
现在我必须关闭贝拉和孩子们的爱
非常来自你的儿子

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