Sajikkol, Seoul, Korea,
1 'September 25, 1929.
Dear father and mother;
This time I am late getting mja letter
written because of a trip I took down south to Taiku and Kyungju.
I left on Friday expecting to get back Saturday night, but" I
found there was too much.to do and see; and so had.tp stay over
Sunday and finish up my sightseeing on Monday, and then c°me
back yesterday afternoon, arriving in Seoul about seven o(clock.
I found your letter of August 30 waiting
here for me, and it seemed especially interesting.  I am looking
forward t your next one telling all about your sightseeing with.
Helen and Nelson.  Such hot weather is certainly most exceptional,
and I do hope it did not continue.  Thanks for giving an excerpt
from Lionel1s Jetter." I hope they take that trip up to Lake
Arrowhead, and I hope you could go too.
In the same bunch of mail was also a
letter from Miss Edwards", written from her mother*s home in Texas.
She was telling how much she enjoyed the visit with you and about
the fruit you gave her.  She took some of it' to-her mother.  She
says she fell in love with both of you, and wants me to explain why
you have not heard from her.  She forgot to get your address.
As for my trip this week end, it was a very
sudden idea with me.  I heard that one  of the ancient royal tombs
at Kyungju was being opened and could be seen up till the 26th.
p:0h inquiring further, I learned that aL group of missionaries was
j.gosng from Taiku on Saturday; and so I decided to take advantage
of that excursion, and'got a note of introduction from a Taiku
missionary"attending the Federal Council here in Seoul to another
missionary in Taiku, Mr. Henderson.
Leaving here on the ten o'clock train Friday
morning, I reached Taiku about 5:30. 'Taiku used to be"the second
largest city of Korea, but now Pyeng Yang and Fusan rank ahead 61
it next to Seoul.  It has a population of about thirty thousand,
and is. one of the centers of the Northern Presbyterian Mission,
as veil as the Catholic.  I found the Henderson's home and was
immediately welcomed in, and from'then oh was as much at'home there
83 if we had been old friends.  They have four small children, a
lovely home, a Steinway 0-rand which I greatly enjoyed, and an
abundance of rich milk to drink and thick cream from their two
Jersey* cows.
Early Saturday morning one of the other
missionaries, Mr. Adams, was "taking the dentist and his wife from
Seoul end  an English lady employed by the Standard Oil Co. to
Kyungju in his sedan, and I arranged*to go with them.  From Taiku
it is e lovely drive of fifty miles over the best roads I have seen
in Korea , not paved, but wide and smooth.  The hill's and mountains
were especially beautiful as the early morning mists gradually
lifted and the sun came out bright.
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mgju
.s -aerhans the most historic spot
in Korea,   being the  capital'of' the  Sylla Kingdom for a   thousan
years during the  golden age to'f Koreans prosper!ty•     The  Sylla
'dynasty  dates  from 57 3."cT   to  937 A.D.,' and  in  those  days  the