Shanghai College
Shanghai.
Aug. 16, 1923
My dear Miss Turner:
Miss Tau is a friend of one of my Y.W.C.A friends in CHina. I am sorry that I did not have the privilege to meet her personally. She is coming to Mt. Holyoke to study and may I introduce her to you? It was such a difference of my year at college because I could come to see you & talk with you. It might be a great difference to her college years when she had the privilege of knowing you.
Your letter of January came safely. I was at Toochow attending a student's spring con. I stayed there a whole month because there was no boat to bring me back. My husband was very patient to look after the two children at home. This summer he has been away most of the time. In July he went with 7 other biologists to Weuchow, a sea port where there are so many fisher towns, for collecting some biological specimens. He came back about first of Aug. and is away again today to Peking to attend an educational conference. He may not be back till middle of September.
Chi-nyok Wang came to see me for a few days. She is having a good school in Soochow. She is working hard and her Christian character among the Chinese girls is fine. Grace Yang has not been very well during last year. She is still working at Y.W.C.A. I see her very often. Poor Mei-iung Han! She was married three years ago and had a child every year. Last year her husband died and left three children for her to look after. She is still in Peking. I have not heard any thing from Dr. Ting. People report that she is getting on fine. Miss Yau-tsih Lau will come to Shanghai to the national Y.W. convention in October. I shall see her then. She is doing a piece of fine educational work at True Light middle school.
This fall I am not going to teach in the college, but am going to devote my time to teach Wei-me and Yien-Chen. Our little girl is 5 years old and the little boy is 2 1/2 yrs. A third one is coming very soon, about in the end of September. Wei-me has her Sunday School with foreign children; so she can talk English quite well. She is learning her Alphabet so that she can write to her Aunt Wilder of Smith.
Enclosed you'll find a little piece of doily which you maybe able to use it for a flower vase. It is but a little thing, but it carrys [sic] my thought from China.
Very truly yours,
Tsoo-Sing Chen.
