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Seoul, Chosen, August 30, 1928. Dear father and mother: My long! journey was com- | pleted last night at 7;4-0, when I reached 4,hc station at Seoul. A group of"mlssionaries ^ere. there to meet us, and one of them took me to the home of Dr. Hardie, one of the oldest and most honored in Korea. He and^rs. Hardie had ^ only an hour or two before returned from theijpTl vacation at the beach. Their daughter, Mrs. Fisher, and her husband were there. I was to go home with them; and so they left soon; and we had a long and interesting ride over here. Since early afternoon it had been raining, and by the time we reached Seoul it was coming down in torrents. At one place ontthe road to the Fisher*s the road passed through a tunnel under a railroad. A drainage gutter was on one side, but now in the rain it was a torrent covering the whole width of the tunnel. We thought it might have washed out the dirt road, and we could not tell how deep it wa.S| |^fter a good deal of consultation, we got a %Bviam*'to carry a few necessary articles in af^Ji-eggjR,t on his back, and Be were to go back anotl#^r-^i**y and walk part way. But after he had waded tllrJligh' the water safely, we decided to try driving through. And so in the dark and the mud and the rain von the narrow, hilly road we re.ached the Fi slier home. I am sitting out on the sun porch high above a' valley of terraced rice fields with a fine view of hills and mountain ranges beyond on all sides. It is not raining now, but is still cloudy. We have just finished breakfast. Had a cucumber-shaped melon introduced from China which serves for cantaloupe, apples, wheatena, hot rolls and jelly, and tea. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher are a young couple, in their thirties, I imagine. Mr.- Fisher has completed his work for a Doctor's degree at Columbia; is a teacher of Philosophy of Education here and is the Mission treasurer. I do not know whether my residence is permanent with them. A missionary, Mr. Oxford, who met us at; Yokohama said he thought it had been arranged that I was to stay with the Hardies, speaks in the highest terms of them; I have been told that Mrs. Hardie ''mothers the whole world*'. In good short-story fashion I have opened with a close-up vie?/; now I shall have to go back and pick up the antecedants.
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Full text | Seoul, Chosen, August 30, 1928. Dear father and mother: My long! journey was com- | pleted last night at 7;4-0, when I reached 4,hc station at Seoul. A group of"mlssionaries ^ere. there to meet us, and one of them took me to the home of Dr. Hardie, one of the oldest and most honored in Korea. He and^rs. Hardie had ^ only an hour or two before returned from theijpTl vacation at the beach. Their daughter, Mrs. Fisher, and her husband were there. I was to go home with them; and so they left soon; and we had a long and interesting ride over here. Since early afternoon it had been raining, and by the time we reached Seoul it was coming down in torrents. At one place ontthe road to the Fisher*s the road passed through a tunnel under a railroad. A drainage gutter was on one side, but now in the rain it was a torrent covering the whole width of the tunnel. We thought it might have washed out the dirt road, and we could not tell how deep it wa.S| |^fter a good deal of consultation, we got a %Bviam*'to carry a few necessary articles in af^Ji-eggjR,t on his back, and Be were to go back anotl#^r-^i**y and walk part way. But after he had waded tllrJligh' the water safely, we decided to try driving through. And so in the dark and the mud and the rain von the narrow, hilly road we re.ached the Fi slier home. I am sitting out on the sun porch high above a' valley of terraced rice fields with a fine view of hills and mountain ranges beyond on all sides. It is not raining now, but is still cloudy. We have just finished breakfast. Had a cucumber-shaped melon introduced from China which serves for cantaloupe, apples, wheatena, hot rolls and jelly, and tea. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher are a young couple, in their thirties, I imagine. Mr.- Fisher has completed his work for a Doctor's degree at Columbia; is a teacher of Philosophy of Education here and is the Mission treasurer. I do not know whether my residence is permanent with them. A missionary, Mr. Oxford, who met us at; Yokohama said he thought it had been arranged that I was to stay with the Hardies, speaks in the highest terms of them; I have been told that Mrs. Hardie ''mothers the whole world*'. In good short-story fashion I have opened with a close-up vie?/; now I shall have to go back and pick up the antecedants. |
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