Dear father and 'mother;
Sajikkol,   Seoul,
January 27,   1930.
| Hadftwo letters  from mother last week,   one on Monday and
again on Thursday.     I  spoke in my la tit letter of not having had any
the week before,   and I was expecting one 'on'-Monday,   and waa^ot
disappointed.    The  first  one was written on Christmas Day.  | I  thought
on that day that you probably would be writing to me,  as you so often
pick out the  special days to give me a part;  and I was  sorry that i
was not dojng as much for you. f        I -
I  enjoyed reading so much the list of presents,  and I  think
it really.fwas a   good plan to have the things bpened befroehand so
people could enjoy looking »1 them whenfthtey came. > You seem to have
been having a   great many callers.    I have been so feratfeful about
everything that you have  told me about your taking kuch care of yourself and conserving your  strength,   and how you are  gaining right along.
I wps  surprised about the number of fruit cakes and^other eatables;
I   guess the words^have come! true that you c*st your bread upon the
waters and after many days  it comes back to you.    You certainly were
over-liberal  in the abundance of4good thingB you sent me.    3ut how
I have teeen enjoying everything'. % I recently finished another  jar of
fig jam from the first lot you  sent,  and am now trying the fig pickle;
and every day I  enjoy the dried fruit as dessert,  a   little of^which I
keep cooked all the time.
Mrs.
Of course it was a shock-and a great* sorrow to hear about
Fisher. I wish now I had sent her a>|good picture of myself when
she askedlfor it; and I had hoped to talk with her again about the
Orient after I had seen it, as &v memories of her descriptions as she
saw it were so vivid. €;      ;.
I was sorry to find you had already sent a check for Han P.v.
Of course you have my letter by this time asking you to let/me take
pver the account for a time until your circumstances get easier. I
really hope you will do this, as'i"feel as if I should be helping you
now after all the ^ears you have been giving; to me.\  This is too'
small, and I only wish I^miahtfdo something-more to help you out now.
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have written that lovely s+ory of Gaper otherwise, I
ertailily was absorbed in it; it took me off to another
forgotten, and I shed real tearrs over it. I hope you
or yourself;  I shall want to keep this always, and it
orporated with the other account in my booklet.:
What was it Shakespeare said about woes following so hard
upon each other that they tread on each others heels? Poor Korea
seems to be in that plight these days. Onftop of their* persecution
under the government at home comes the news of the tribulation of
all Christians in Russia, buV particularly the foreigners-. The
Christian Koreans Who have gone to Siberia hoping, to make a living,
are now suffering a living death at the hands of a once so-called
Christian nation. They are being driven from their homes and their
work and in this bitterest of winter cut off from every means of help
Those that are registered may be brought back to Korea through the
Japanese consulate; the others will be deported to the far north.