Dear  father*:
Songdo,  Kor£a,
1935-
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We ar6 havirig a deluge of rain. "It began last night;  a
has ralried steadily all day,f^af times in great downpours. iForiabout
a month now we have had heatfy rains about once a week, and the prosg
pects for a good ricef^ear look favor able triow.  The rice has been. I
mostly set out in the fields thellast week or two. Thi barley* wiiif-
soon be ready to harvest.  In the south the barley"is harvested "before
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fields.  It i
I ^suppose this rain will stop after a day or two.
to harvest. In the south the barleySis harvested bef
et out; so they can get two crops a year from the nice
s hardly time for the sufoifier torrents to begin yet,« so
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J rour description of conditions in some of the middle ^1
western s,€atesfreminded me of Saskatchewan,'though th4  latter wasf '
not quite that bad. | InfSaskatchewan the eropis were'blown out of theik
ground and the earth removed so as "to make farming; impossible in
places, and I saw the sun like aflittle red moon on account of the  -
dust in the air, but it was not so dark that lights had to be burned,,
or that we could not see a fair distance.  It looks again as if Roosevelt's idea of limitingtproduction-is going to be made unnecessary*.
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* Did Bro.fShuler get bamboo sprouts or full grown canes? g
If the latter, they would have tolbe sawed off, I should think. Hope
he succeeds in getting them to grow. " I had "been thinking lastlyear . ■"
thatfif more shoots came up on the south side, the path would be ob-lf
3tructed;Cso|lt was a "good plan to have himftake what "heawanted from
that place. You •wili,|be welcome, I am sure, to all-the stones you ; •
would, want from his place; so you better get some, ^hen if you have i
more common as tones thran you know^what to do with, fou might be able j
to use them along the street. *■I -noticed at a railroad station here
that drains were made by digging small trenches and filling them.with
stones.  That apparently will give drainage while presenting erosion^
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, ' * The ideafof writing a memorial to Mother pleased me trex*y|i
much. • I remember your saying last year that you wanted to dedicate a
book to Mother, as you had already done-so for Nelson and m£. jAnd I
by the way, th,at reminds me that I gave each of the missionaries in*#
Kongju, where I spent ten days at the end of March and early |Aprily*,>
a copy of "Paul's Christmas Gift Returned".  It was a very fconvejfitfint
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gift to-make in recognition^ their kindnesgesfto me.  And those I Jf ^
have seen since h^ve expressed fthemselves v^ry^appreciatively•" £&st ^W
year you were in the midstlof writing*some story, as I remamber it, Ji
when some #interruption camefand ydu never had inspirationjto 'finish it} 1
Hope you may do it some time.   ' '   '    ' '" ' -   ■'     **\i   .
*" • Mother said that she began teachingfa 3.S. class when shtf la
wasxsixteen; and so that makes aboutlfifty years for her. But I had fj
not thought about it until you mentioned thb fifty years. I ffrln*- It |*
would be very interesting to have some of-the letters included. Thos'e
you mentioned, Bishop-Moore'a, Bro. Shuler s,
and I liked Mrs. Bunn!3 and *!iss Hubbel1s. I
see your manuscript^ what I could write for-a
as you suggest; but Just nowfl think of the early memories I have of
attending^missionary meetings with mother and other early impressions
Did you mention your lidea to'mother? I hope the ladies respond^tQ
whom"' you ^appealed for information.il Especially have I wanted to know
what Mrs. Evens could tell about the last months, f       ;   :' f
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and Vina19,  were fine;
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^foreword'1  or ''addition*1