Wuchang, China
Wednesday, Oct. 13, '15
Dear old Nell -
To say that your note of Aug. 2 surprised me is to be guilty of understating the truth! Can you imagine voluble me ever under-stating the truth? Once I was able to catch my breath again I felt a warm glow of gladness for you. It's awfully nice to be married and if I - who for so long was a man-hater say so - you may be sure that you will also find it so. There's nothing in the world so satisfying as being of supreme importance to some one. I know you'll enjoy the youngsters too. You've taught too long not to know how to get along with them. I am as happy with and for you as can be.
I know you so I suppose it's useless to ask you to write me particulars of your husband, your home, your family and all the things I'm dying to know. Ah well, perhaps sometime we'll meet again!
I had your note just after sending you my contribution to the Class Letter. I couldn't answer at once as you gave no address or name. The wedding announcement came here instead of to Kuling and got mislaid, so it was only the other day I knew how to address you. Hence my delay in telling you how truly I wish you all happiness.
Since you have admired the grass linen things so much I am sending you a lunch-cloth as a wedding gift. I also inclose a bunch of Kodaks for the Class Letter. If they are too late, do as you like with them.
I've been back from Kuling three weeks and have been very busy with a variety of things, - fall sewing, shopping for winter things & Christmas presents, house-cleaning, making over curtains, getting Marian into short clothes, teaching Caesar, getting the Boone Review out, entertaining company, and always the two babies to keep me jumping.
I'd love to talk over housekeeping with you, only of course there's no similarity at all between your problems and mine. I've just been training in a coolie who didn't even know how to turn a door-knob! We buy a great many supplies wholesale. It's been a very wet summer and I've had three pounds of cocoanut [sic] and five boxes of Quaker oats spoil! The reason this letter is so blotted is that the blotter is so saturated with moisture from the air that it won't take up any ink. Last evening we found a large centipede of the poisonous variety in our living room - pleasant!
Good-bye and again my loving congratulations!
Ever yours
Lucy Fish.
