Sajlkol, Seoul,
November 5, 1928.
Dear folks:
Now that it is so near mother1 s birthday I'm
not forgetting to mention it in my letter;  but it seems
that every time for the last few weeks I would £hink of it
just after I had sealed the letter.  T am sorry this will
not be greeting you on time.
Just after I began this, the Swinneys handed
me three letters that came from you on Saturday, Sunday, and
today.  The Saturday letter was written Oct. 1 and 3, a
month before its delivery; while yours of the 8th and 9th
came last Wednesday,' in 21 days.  After reading so much news
from home all at once, I ceratinly feel as if I had had a
fine visit.
The special news this week is that I had a trip
to Songdo, leaving on the 4:30 train Friday afternoon and returning on the 11:50 this morning.  It is about two hours' ride.
Clarence "Weems, who is also boarding here, a son of one of
our missionary families in Songdo, is teaching in the Seoul
Foreign .School, and goes home every week end.  This time a
tennis tournament was arranged between the young folks of
the foreign schools in 'Seoul and Songdo to 'be played at Songdo,
and Clarence wanted me to come with them, He has been wanting
me for some time, but thought this would be an especially good
time.. . About twenty of the stud'ents went and were divided up
between the missionary homes' there.  I stayed with the T7eems,
and they had four-other guests besides their two sons at home.
They have two cows; and so they have milk to drink, whipped
cream, and home-made butter,  ^hey are well-known for their
good table.
Frida^ night we had a party''at the nurses' home
(where the new doctor and his wife who came . on the boat with
me are staving •  Saturday all dav was taken un with the
tennis games-  There were some very good matches, but Songdo
won., They have two very fine 'courts on the compound, set down
in a sort of natural amphitheatre. Benches were set on the
hill sid^ for the rooting sections.  Overlooking this is the
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into,f^  +h ^  afternoon *^,ri'.  Tee^s  took me  al
the   golf  course wiiich  is his pet  interest,   developed   just  the
last^year.     It  is an "eighteen hole   course  in two halves,
covering two beautiful  little valleys  between the mission
Virvi<-«pe       Tbp  PArnrioVi-nri   * 4  >^t  ^sr th p nrsttiest I have   seen  in
Korea .     It  is  far more  extensive  than anything could  be
Seoul -   arid   oecunies-a   gently rolling area   ,!usf right  for the
mos+   attractive  landscaping  with  the  mission homes-spaced
along, the  ridse   in a horse-shoe  arrangement.     The  roads
paths .with  their  long" files-'of  lofty  Lombardies ma-rchihg
a 1 onfe    aTl(1  a   ruftned  mounf a in beak   in the
|. scene   of  rare   beauty^--
"Ofi thei^Mamc   compound  is  the  Textile • Building-'
and   the  Common  Scfcool' * with 'a   locatiOiTnpt   equalled,!,   suppose
■ In Korea \   commanding" a   panorama, of-the   old ■ City ■