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Limwna? Korea,
May 24, 1939.
Dear Father:
p   .■; !fT,his  id Wednesday afternoon aid pi want  to  finish
'this in time to go out on the evening mail'so it will, not be
any later than possible. -Monday I made a trip out topagok,
and yesterday  it  seemed I
kept busy all  the day.     ThisiNorning
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th!s mother left for Songdo.  she was here nearly a
and "was a great help-to uc.
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Je' couxu have hardly  got  along
without her.     It would  be nice  if  she  could  s+ay longer,   but
she  is  needed at home' too.    Ruth1 s  grandmother  came and kept
house  for the two sbbys while the mother was hers,   but that"
could-be  only temporary.     It is  good to have an older --person
with'  experience about;   it helps  to  put  one's mind at rest
should  anything unusual happen.     She ha't ed-": t o leave,   too,   I
think.'    Early  this 'morning on waking 3he looked at  thelbaby
a long time,. Ruth  said,   thi'riking how -she wouldlsoon have to
leave, lapparently.     She  said  shsiwi^hed we  could  live  in the
same  town.  : She would bringfin special dishes  often-     ^v.en
asnit  is,   she brings-many': th Inge  every time .she  comes,   a nd
,in between times  often  sends  things,     she  is very generous
and
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Ruth is feeling :*well and. thin*
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church for the firs + time nex4- Sunday.  She takes a little
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sv}f day ,   and enjoys  see 1 ng g ow
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have grown1.. ": The purple  iris  and double azalea, have
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now some wild iriB^^^ Ipx* red rose are J^ery attractive; in
our own front yard, .Things a's' yet'-are;'. pretty bare about our
house, but' when thep annuals get in bloom ;thro/a^h. the summer
it will not be bad.  The- place looks about as Bonnivue did
the first year.
Your letterjpf April 17 came some days ago
Before that I had teceiv
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Thank  you very much.     It   is  a  very beautiful  little
In the  near future  I want  to do  something I have been thinking
about  for  a long time;   tpha4-.   is  to five in place of a  sermon
or  two your  story  of Paul's  Christmas  0-ift Returned  at   oar
church."   I rant to announce  !#• before hand  so there will be
a  good attendance.
|lien you spoke  of having strawberry  shortcake at
be wish  I  could have been there.     Our
id  In a month we  oughu   u^
Aunt  Iva's  itfnade i—w-—-  - m --
strawberry  plants are doingCweli and
have a  good mkrif berries.    Was  sorry  to hear you would make
no more visits at 427 iuirfield.     What  are Uncle George and
Hunt Floy  goingfto do?    Have they bough4-  another house?     Is
Vincent livin«~with  them?     Intthe  early ^spring Bernie  sent me
a  picture of her boy,   and  I was {impressed by his resemblance
d  there lis  no  one at  LongfBeach now to
Mavells would have""wanted  to keep
Angeles it probably was too
to her.     It is too ba
visit'*     I  should   think  the
the  apartments,   but being  in Los