April 25th, 1940.Dear Miss Turner:
Your interesting letter dated March 24th came this morning. I was so happy to hear about your meeting at New Orleans. You know recently I have been thinking of Dr. Krogh. I have learned that he was in America. But I wonder where he is now. Work is going on as usual at P. U. M. C. and that is the reason why the Chinese Journal of Physiology comes to you regularly. Kindly tell Miss Charlotte Haywood your successor that I would continue to subscribe the journal as long as I can to the department. I think it is a good journal. The Journal of Pediatrics comes regularly also and it is very helpful to me.
You remember of my illness last year in January. After my illness of pheumonia I have been annoyed by irritating cough. Becuase [sic] of this trouble I may be forced to change for a better climate. This I will write to you later. The immediate decision is to send Mary Jean away to Northfield. I feel that I am no longer able to carry hospital work and run a home at the same time. Mary Jean is finishing her junior high school this year I am making anapplication for her at Northfield. If she is accepted then she will be there this coming fall. She will be fifteen this coming July. Although she is a little bit younger than most Chinese students coming to America but the life at such a good christian [sic] school will be good for her. I think that she will make an excellent nurse but this I am leaving to her. She is good in domestec [sic] science also. I do not think that she will even go into medicine. In fact I do not want her to enter this field for I have noticed very few Chinese women can stick thru this difficult path. There are about three hundred women physicians in China and only a small portion have done outstanding work either in medical schools or hospitals. We have booked for Mary Jean on S. S. President Pierce sailing from Shanghai August 12th. Mrs. Agnus Shute (a friend of Miss Calder) of Auburndale has consented to be her guardian. I want Mary Jean to enter as a freshman in high school department so she would have four years American training before entering college.
The Salvation Army is sending you a report on flood relief work. From it you would learn my share in this work.
During flood and after flood we took care of some two hundred mothers and new born babies. Our division was considered the brightest spot of our camps. My friend Miss Smith a Salvation Army worker at Tientsin will someday send you another report. We are not deprived of physical comforts or necessities of life. Our general health has been good.
Yung Yuin's address is as following_ Care of Rev. Mckurdy Syracuse in China Hospital, Chungking, Szechuan Province. She is finishing her internship there. She said that she would like to specialize in Pediatrics.
Abby has two more years in junior high school. She has talent in languages and I am going to let her to study her desired languages.
American women are both superior in mental as well as physical capacities. I know of no Chinese woman who can do very much after fifty. You are wonderful in keeping up your teaching as well as your research. After your first year of vacation I would say South Hadley is the best place for a retired professor. It is the spirit that keeps people young. There you would be able to exert your good influence upon young students. You still can do much but you would not have to hurry with academic work. When world is in better condition do come and visit us. This letter takes you mcuh [sic] of our love. There are many things I have not time or chance to tell you now. We are well and cheerful.
Yours lovingly.
Me-iung.