Sajikol, Seoul,
September IS, 1928.
Sear father and mother:
There was a. great deal of excitement
In town Saturday when I heard that a letter had arrived for
me.  The news came first when I went to the Carolina Institute in the morning' to find out about my language teacher.
It had been delivered there,' but they had sent it by someone
to the meeting of the Federal Council of the. Churches of
Korea which was then having its annual meeting in the Pierson
Memorial Bible Institute. 't went to the Swinney1s for dinner
and then walked back to the Carolina Institute,"only to find
that the letter had been passed on to someone else who was
to bring it to the Spinney's:  I went back to the Swinney's
and was told that their visitor was not expected till seven.
Then I had' to walk home to the College without it and wait
for it till the next day. ' Someone handed it to Dr. Fisher
at church Sunday morning.  It was well worth all the anticipation and suspense.  Thank you for writing such a good long
one and for sending the pictures. vou should not have parted
with them, but you made a good selection.  I do hope your
knee Is well by this time, and that you keep well. Was so
glad to know that Aunt Fannie was improving.  I hope to hear
good news right along.
I am now moved to the Swinney's.  Left
the Fisher's thife morning about eight, sending all my things
on a cart.  The Koreans asked only ¥1.50 ($.75) for hauling
all that heavy load over the hills two or three miles.  I am
now much more conveniently located for everything, church,
school, and town, being right in town.  The Koreans never
built on the hills; and so they were left for the missionaries.
I think every compound or School I have seen here has been on
a hillside. Here we are just inside the old city wall on the norik-
west side of the city.  The wall was built along the ridge in
1392, and some of it is ibtill in good preservation.  Just at
the base of bur hill the little huts begin, their tile or thatch
roofs looking like a solid pavement of irregular flagstones.
And beyond we have an inspiring view of the rugged peaks
protecting the city on the other side. The mountains in Korea
are not high, as figures go, those about Seoul not being at
the very most more than two thousand feet; but their rocky,
precipitous peaks give them-aneimposing grandeur.
So my view through the window is fine,
but this house is a big, bare, gloomy old thing, as far from
looking comfortable and cozy as possible.  I understand the
Swinneyss lost much of their property in the Chinese wars,
and they have not been able to furnish this house much. They
do not set as good a table as the Fishers either, but they a
very pleasant people, and everybody likes them very much. We
right next door to Mr. Stokes, and he is famed throughout liorei
as a language scholar, and wanted us near him so he could
surjerintend"bur study.  I say %eM because !Ir. and Mrs. Norris
are living in his house.  The new doctor and his wife were
aopointed to Songdo, and will have tohstypy the language there.
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