Peiyang Women's Hospital, Tientsin, China.My dear Miss Turner;
I have been rather busy and I have not been able to write to you. Mrs. R. T. Evans has sailed for America and is on her way to Mount Holyoke College. She is taking a small parcel to you which contains a piece of bule silk and two hand woven pictures. That piece of silk is for you and two pictures are for Miss Griffith and Miss Green. Our silk is rather heavy and probably you can use it for a dress with thinner silk for sleeves. With the parcel I am sending you much of my love.
Here I am enclosing a picture of my niece. [no longer with the letter] She is the oldest daughter of my brother. Her mother died in April. She is now a junior at McTyeire School. She finishes next spring and will be ready to enter college fall of 1930. She is a fine student especially in her science. Her teachers think that she is unusual. I know that she has had a good preparation. All these seven years since my home coming I have impressed upon her father the importance of a thorough education. Her Chinese is already of college grade. She writes and speaks English fairly well. She wants to take up a medical course before she enters her professional study. I would like very much for her to enter Mount Holyoke College if she could get a scholarship covering tuition and board. Miss Green mentioned something about that there is such a scholarship for a Chinese student at Mount Holyoke College. If there is one then do apply for me. In my last letter I have sent you her school credits.
I shall not be away much this summer. I have booked on President Madison which sails from Kobe September the first. I am really very happy to think of my leaving. These sven [sic] years have been years of work and strain. Condition in our country is better. We just had two weeks of Health Campaign. This coming week is "swat fly week." Things are improving and condition is hopeful. I wish you a good vacation. With much love.
Yours lovingly,
M. I. Ting.May 30th, 1929.