Peiyang Women's Hospital, Tientsin, China.My dear Miss Turner;
What would we do without Sundays! However most people in China are working every day of the year. My father is one of the many. He works every day of the year except the first day of the New Year. I often wonder how is it that he can stand such a life. I have been back just one year and I was about to drop. I am just back from my short vacation. During that week of rest I just had a good time and did nothing. Now I am back at work.
Miss Grace Li daughter of expresident sailed for America August 5th. I asked her to bring a little token of love to you. She is going to Wellesley. Kindly write to her for it. During her busy college days she might forget about it. In the package you will find quite a number of luncheon sets. Select one set for yourself and kindly mail the rest for me to Mrs. Roy C. Jacobson, 6021 Kenwood Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. These luncheon sets are made by our poor women and I am helping them to sell. If you know any one who wants.a [sic] set she would be welcome to have any of them by paying ten dollars for cross stich [sic] work and fourteen dollars for drawn work. As to beads send the smaller kind to Mrs. Roy C. Jacobson. There are two prettier sets one blue other brown. The blue string is for Miss Purington and kindly tell her it is a token of love from me. Kindly mail the brown string of beads to Dr. Rhoda P. Farquharson, 1113 David Whitney Building, Detoit [sic], Michigan. I am asking you to do awful lot for me. It is so hard to send things to America. The duty is often more that [sic] what one pays for the goods. When Miss Li promised to take a small package for me I took the oppotunity. [sic] I thank you for all this trouble.
I have wondered many times where you were this summer. By the time this letter should reach you, college would be in midst of her work again. With love.
Yours lovingly.
M. I. Ting.