Tientsin, China.
April 12th, 1935.
My dear Miss Turner;
Your last letter to me was written November 22nd, 1934 and since then I have not heard from you. I begin to feel little bit worried aobut you for I never have been so long in not hearing from you. No doubt you must be busy with your teaching. Probably you are making plans to go to Moscow. We are going to have a professor from Harvard at P. U. M. C. as a visiting professor and he is going to Russia from China with some of our physiologists. I shall make plans to go to P. U. M. C. to attend few lectures from this Harvard professor. I do not know his name as it was announced only in Chinese papers and I cannot make out His [sic] English name.
I just had a letter from my niece at Bryn Mawr College saying that she has to have another year of Latin to enetr [sic] Michigan Medical School and she is making up her Latin between now and June. She has four more points in English also. Well, Vung Yuin must learn to plan things ahead. She said that she can make up these points alright and come home for summer after her graduation. Miss Helen Calder is coming to visit her sister Mrs. Thurston also this summer. I hope that they can come to China together. How happy I and we would be if you could come also. If you cannot then we must look forward to another year. Have you seen Barbara Yen much? She will be thru with her freshman year soon. I do not know what is her plan for summer. Her mother thinks that her father may arrange for her to visit him in Moscow. Mrs. Yen is very delicate in health so she cannot follow him to Moscow. I guess that Dr. Yen must feel lonesome without his family. If you should go to Moscow for conference do look up Dr. Yen. He is a very fine statesman.
I have not been so busy with professional service these days as China is suffering from bad business condition also. Many are out of work and people cannot afford to come to hospital. America bought so much silver that China is depleted with silver also. We have too much paper money now on market. With Japan in Manchuria they are manufacturing goods cheaper than we can do; thus our market is in upset condition also. General Chiang has done much for our people with this new life movement. People are learning to buy more home made products. All constructive work takes time. We are building good roads for better communication. We can see some improvements in China expecially [sic] in training of youths. This coming Monday all first year high school boys are going to camps for rigid military training. This means that these boys would learn to do things and be out of doors for spring. This is all good for China. Girls of the same age in high schools are having nursing training. We teach two classes for our government[.] We are glad to be useful to our country. I can see better health among our school children. Our girls are much bigger and taller than ten years ago.
Mary Jean and Abby have gone to Peiping for spring vacation. They have been sick a good deal this past winter. Now they are well and they must be out doors more. I took Mary Jean off her music lessons. I think that she is carrying too heavy a load for a child of her age. She better go slow now and have good health for her future. She is ambitious like her sister Vung Yuin. Abby is growing very tall. She has had mumps recently. We are looking for ward for summer vacation so all can go to beach. My two nephews are with me for few months also. So you see I am a busy aunt with four children under my care. I am preparing one nephew for college. He does not want to come America now so he will enter college here. He is a timid quiet boy and I do not want to urge too much on him. He is rather delicate in health also. Now we have too many subjects in high school that students are not thorough in their lessons. They know lttle of everything and master of none. His English is something terrible and I am tutoring him everyday [sic] one hour to get him to pronouce [sic] words correctly and to write simple sentences correctly. He is good in his mathematics and scinece. [sic] After a year in college we will see if he would like to join his sister in America. By nature my brother's children are good students. They do study well in schools. It is the wrong method of teaching English in our schools now that made him so deficient in this branch. Government is so anxious for scientific training that schools are not giving proper attention to language study. Our government is also doing much for students today. Every large city is building stadium.
When you have time to write I want to hear from you. There are little kodek [sic] pictures of the family, two nephews, Mary Jean, Abby and myself. This was taken in our park. I hope that you are well and that you can attend that conference in Moscow. With much love.
Yours lovingly,
Me_iung
