Eimwha., Kore^
Julv
193o.
Dear Father:
mv,
'his is Sunday afternoon, and I an alone in the parsonage
at Kimwha.  I came d-own from Seoul yesterday on the corning train,
leaving Suchulii about 7:40 and arriving here at 12:20.  Han moksa did
not come with me this time.  I am expecting a student from the Pyeng-
yahg Seminary to come this Wednesday to help me during the summer. He
is the son of the pastor at whose church I held a revival last winter
beginning the day after Christmas. He is the one who plays the cornef
and trombone well and helped with the music  So I will have company
after a dew days.  However, I cannot be lonesome while so many children
are playing in the street Just beneath my window and running through the
church yard.  It is a hubbub all the time.  0 V*
By the way, while I think of it, I was wondering if it
would be too much trouble ^or you to find a used trombone which you
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could bring out with you.  Of course it would not be as good a one as
you got for me; I was thinking of one costing perhaps about $25 or
This student is really too stood a player and too much of a help to
church not to have an instrument of his own. While in the College ;
Pyengyang (Union Christian, of which Dr.nMcCune was president), he
the college instruments in the band; but since his graduation he has
none to use.  In the winter, when I wrote about that meeting i which
Hyo Han helped so much, Helen Johnson answered that she would try to
find a used instrvpient there; she said as they read the letter Ag said
he had a friend who did not use his instrument any more and wondered if
they could get it.i Later she wrote that the friend did not want to sell;
but she was hoping! to find one sind 'wanted to pay something toward it.  If
you are too buiy or find it difficult, do not try too hard to get one.
But if you should be able to get it, take the money from my account.
Another thing I must trouble you about.  I am enclosing a
letter from the League of Evangelical Students in which a eourse of
Bible study for colleges is mentioned.  For this I would like you to
send for me $5, and I was wondering if they would send me a copy when it
is published; it might be a good thing to translate into Korean.  And
while you are sending the §5 it might save trouble to add f2 for my
1937 subscription to^the Evangelical Student, organ of the League. You
may site my address as ''Kinkocho, Seoul'1.  That is the Japanese pronun-
ciation of Koom-ho-chung.  The League was organized at Princeton my first
year there, and I was a charter member. My classmate and good friend,
W. J. Jones, became the field secretary of the League, and only recently
was succeeded by the Calvin Cummings who wrote this letter.
And while I am asking., I might as well make a good job of it.
When you pack up for your trip,"could you find a corner to tuck in a few
seeds? I*was thinking of some good variety of corn, perhfps Country
Gentleman, as I have seen none of it here. But I do not mean to have you
buy any seed.  I thought you always had enough raised at Bonnlvue. You
would not need to bring many kernels, as we do not have a large garden.
Do you still have*any of the ground cherry which Aunt Fannie sent some
years ago? ^hen I wanted some sweet peas.  I don't know whether California poppies would do weillhere; probably no*; but I would like to try
them. "Petunias, gaillardias, cornflower, stock, anything you may have
handy would be welcome; as we have none, of the^; and I think I have not
seen them in Korea. SIf vou have space, I would like to have a few bulbs
of the Jonquils and narcissus.  In coming into Japan, the authorities