Dear father:
Seoul, Korea,
May 10, 1936,
vour letter of April 11 came the very day, I think, Jphat
I mailed my lastjletter to you.  And it was a very interesting one.
vour letters come regularly now, and all have been received up to date.
That was a fine letter from the Missionary Society of Glide church,
and I want to thank you for taking the trouble to copy It that I might
have the pleasure of reading it along with you.  I was also glad to
see a letter from Helen and Lloyd Fetterly/ I had not heard from her
for a long time. What books did you send Lio^d? Besides "Applied
Chemistry11, did you send "Chemistry for Nurses" and "Modern Chemistry"?
In a recent letter of Helen's she spoke of his always getting 100 in'
his Chemistry tests.  I never heard of such a remarkable student. Helen
must be very proud of him.  All her boys are very good.  I enjoyed
meeting them in 1933 when I landed in America.
Helen's account of how all the aunts were wanting a copy
of "Fifty Beautiful "ears" was very interesting.  I had not heard
before that her Aunt Barbara was in Mother's Sunday School class
many years ago, I suppose in Columbia.
Helen's letter written April 4 spoke of their having snow
every day for a week. That must be very unusual for Seattle. We
continue to have a good deal of rain, but not almost every other day,
as we did for a while.  And it is much warmer now.  The first burst
of spring blossoms, forsythia, azalea, and cherry, is about over now.
We made a trip out to Suchulli one day the past week, and Han moksa
planted about a half dozen tomato oiants he had bought.  Chung moksa
trees and had planted three on our
already set out peaches, grapes,
squash, and other garden things.
a lot of dried persimmons he had
had
lot
and
ne
secured a number of persimmon
just below the house. He had
other trees, as well as peas,
other day Chung moksa sent me
been saving for me.  They were very large and fine.  I am very fond
of them.  Chung moksa and his wife seem to have a real affection for
me, and do a great many little things like that.
You had not described the flowers at Bonnivue for some time,
and it certainly made me want to see them when you wrote how beautiful
the place was.  I haveobeen wanting to beautify the Suchulli place,
but I have no tools, and I have not been able to do any strenuous
work, and when I am able I shall be too busy.  Anyway the space is too
limited to make any extensile gardening possible.  The whole place is
probably not any larger than Bonnivue's front yard, but that is
considered very roomy for Korea.  The decorations at Trinity for
Easter were very unusually attractive.
"ou had not told me of Mr. Hilton's heart attack.  I am
glad you are able to do something for them. Nei*her had I known of
Mrs. Blackburn's death.  I used to sell blackberries to her when she
lived near Bonnivue. As the days get warmer I am afraid you will
have trouble with your eyes.  I wish something could be done to
pro*ect them. You probably wear dark glasses do you not? I WxSh I
could help with the'irrigating.  Are the scarlet verbenas you spoke
of being under the sunroom windows the variety of unusually -Large
blossoms which we had for some time, but was gone when I was there.