Seoul, Korea,
Decern oer
1920.
Dear father and mother;
This will probably reach you about New Year's time, and I
hope you will have a pleasant holiday season, and that the coming
year will bring more'prosperous times, better health, and many
spiritual blessings.  I am afraid the past year lias been rather
hard on you, although you do not say much about your troubles.
You always show me the bright side of things.
Your letter came last Tuesday, which I was very glad to
get, telling about your birthday celebration, the district
[sting, and enclosing Kelson's letter about the Jennings family
meeting.  I was a;lad to know the details about the le#al proofs
required, and can see now why it is so diificult to prove anything.  Bow I think you were wise in not spending money on it.
It seems to me there are plenty of other proofs satisfactory to
the ordinary person, whether the English courts would accept them
or not, so that we need not feel we are without a family even if
the line is not legally proved.  If legal proof is all that can
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be  accomplished,   I am not much interested; f if there   is good hope
of acquiring a
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thousand dollar^s that legally belongs to us,
there is no harm done in trying to
there is little hobe of that.
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fou seem to have occasion every now andjthen to
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the family records that I compiled; so I will tell $ou that the
charts that you have been using are merely outlines of the final
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Peters family records in a board-back notebook, and the iiaupin
family records in a wall-paper covered booklet.  They contain
all that I
of the history.
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Was glad you could be of some comfort to Bro. Reynolds,
is too bad that you must lose your friends one by one;  I hope
there will be others to take their places, so that you may not
be too lonely.
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a novel idea I thought to make persimmon ice
cream. Who would ever have thought of it but you? Do wish I
could have a taste.  And the feijoa salad is equally novel, and I
am sure it must be;excellent.  Also wish I could drop in for a
sample of the avocado salad.  I cannot tell you of the delicacies
I am having, for even if I should give their names, they would
mean nothing to you.  I have a reputation for liking kongjang
(hard, salted beans), keem (seaweed), tubu (a clabber like preparation from beans), and eggs and fruit.  We are having all but the
eggs now, and I get the eggs when I go to the country.
I have as guests during the General Conference Sin moksa,
an old friend of Han Moksa Ts, and two lay delegates from the
Wonsan district, young men, one from Yi Yong DoT s former church
and one from the adjoining circuit which I visited in October.
We have a fine time together and I will be sorry to see then go.
I had expected more to come, but the ^eneral Conference is paving