Seoul, Korea,
November 27,1934.
Dear father and mother:
This was a red letter day, as I really had
three letters from you, besides a number of others of more or less
interest.  The one which you began at the *Motor inn*' in Fresno on
Oct. 28 with the letter of August 14 which you addressed to the Pres.
Pierce enclosed was handed to me last night when I returned from my
country trip.  It was already late, and it seemed like too much ofa
luxury to read two letters all at one sitting; I wanted to have trie
pleasure of suspense and anticipation, and so put off the reading
of the August l4 letter till this morning. And then some more mail
that had been laid aside for me while I was gone was brought to me,
and among it I found another envelope from you.  It was the letter
written Nov. 2,*ith Mrs. Fryer's enclosed. Your letter was really
two, one from mother and one from father; and so I might say I had
four from you, which is a record forone day, I think.
While I was gone I thought H«n moksa would
forward some of the mail, but he did not.  I was gone ten days, so
that accounts for the accumulation.  Tha,nk you so much for the stamps,
used and unused, which you enclosed.  I always begrudge keeping an
unused stamp; I feel it ought'to be put tp the work for which It was
made.  But these new scenic stamps are so pretty, that cancellation
mars them, and they will make a very fine looking set in the album.
vou said the succulent I sent still looked
fresh when you received it.  It had probably been picked four wweks
then, as I had intended enclosing it in the previous letter, but forgot
it and it lay in this room a week.  If I send you another piece, I
believe it will grow for ppu.  In the house where we stayed at Long
Arrow last week, there was a succulent hanging up on a nail that wa3
blooming, although it had been there for six months, the Bible woman
said.  The leaves were all dry, and the blossom stalk had reached six
or eight Inches.  The flowers were green, sn&  did not amount tohuch;
and.I^could not tell how the leaves'looked,, but apparently they were
something like a small "hen and chickens'1, only narrower.  The Bible
woman had picked it somewhere on the hills.
Wish I could see the beautiful dahlias and chrysanthemums, and how I would like to be able to show them to everyone
here.  I am sure they would be amazed. People exclaim over flowers
that we would not consider worth mentioning. An errand boy that works
at the Center this year,grew two or three chrysanthemums in pots, and
was so delighted when they actually bloomed. Each one had one big
creamy blossom five or six inches across, and he brought them to
Margaret's house for safe keeping.  I can hardly believe that the ferns
, have grown double in these few months, and it is unbelievable that the
begonia from Aunt Nora could be larger than hers already.  I am surprised
that so many castor beans are coming up.  I did not care much whether
they did or not. I  thought just the fact of the seeds being in the ground
might drive the moles away. I picked one cluster of seeds from the bush
that grows at the bend in the road below Miss Hubbel's.