Dear father and mother:
Seoul, Korea,
January 20,   1935.
a. | I   "     Just 'as I was  sending out my lastiletter
to mail,   your letter was-received.     It was too late to add a
note  saying I had"heard  from you.   It was the  one written just
before Christmas,  and  telling how debilitating the X-ray
ments were.     This news  cast  somewhat of a-gloom over the
hold.     Now whenever a-qletter comes  from.America  everyone
to hear the news.     One time Hstn mbksa wast just leaving when a
letter came,   and he returned and asked me  to look at it in a
hurry and" let him kriow what  special news there was  of my mother's
condition.     His wife has  told her friends,   and they are worrying
about my being so  far away.     But I actually  think  there is  some
compensation in being far away.     No matter what reports  the letters
treat-
house-
waits
bring,   I   can always think  that that has passed already three'weeks
ago,   and in the meantime  there  is always  the possibility  of a
change  for the better.     I  always  tru3t* that  just now,  atrleast,
things are not  so.     Han moksa*3 wife is a (trained nuree,   and is
always very cheerful.     She assures me  that you will certainly  get
well.     I  think  she  feels a duty to keen me  cheered up.
I Every letter that  somes mentions mother's
condition,   and  they all have  fine  things  to say.     It means a   gr&at
deal  to come  from a   family  of such high  standing as mine. U have
thought  several  times of father's approaching birthday,   but never
at a  time when I was writing,   and now it isitoo late to send
greetings.     That is one handicaprfof being far away.    But I'm afraid
there will not be much celebrating on anv  occasion this year.     It
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is  too bad" your Christmas had  to be  spoiled;   but if the  treatments
are necessary  for mother to get well,   it is worth it.     Was  so  glad
to hear that different  friends were  sending in gifts.    vou have
never mentioned  finances,   but I'm  sure vqu have many ex+ra  expenses.
I   felt ashamed  that" other folks were doing better by you than" your
;£xx£h£s own son.     As it does nbtpay to  send money from here,  and
as all my money comes  from that  sidS  of the water anyway,   I want
to renew say offer, * which I wrote a  few weeks ago,   to let you use
out of my account there any amount that you may need in an emergency
I would not want you to be"embarrassed at any time  for lack  of what
I have  there in your keeping. "c
•,e        . -    •" f     :   When I   spoke  of making the account at the
bank  so I  could draw on it here,   I had  forgotten that it was a
savings account and would be drawing a better interest  than it
would as a  checking account.     I don't know how much Ether e is left,
and it may not be worth making the  change.     For the $100 you sent
this  time,I  received  in exchange v 350.10,   which is very  good.
Bro.  Anderson at Songdo  said  that japan's  sending-money into Manchuria affected her exchange  just
country;   and that when Japan paid
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cause a big slump in the value of
wait a while before cashing the check, and see if we couldnot get
a better exchange. But he "was"afraid of taking any chances while
the exchange was as good as it was, and thought we had better go
ahead and be content with it as it was.
like sending money into a foreign
Russia-for the railroad it would
the yen.  I told Han moksa to