[Some paragraph breaks added for ease of reading.]March 6, 1922.
My dear Miss Turner:-
Time is just flying. This is beginning of second week in March. I am on my last service now. This is a very active service - diphtheria. There are one hundred thirty cases of different types of diphtheria in building now. There is plenty material for us to learn. I cannot tell you how thrilled I was of my first intubation and extubation. In laryngeal diphtheria, dyspnea steadily increases. To relieve this condition we put a tub in larynx[.] I have also learned to give antitoxin intravenously. This is by no means easy in young children. The different types of diphtheria - the complications, the segulae [?] are all there. The only thing is to study each case. One can never forget what one learns at bed side.
The resident of this department is unusually good. He is so patient to teach us. There are four of us in that department. Two of them are majors. They are sent here by U. S. government. One happens to be a graduate of Michigan University. So we have much common to talk about. The other major wants to go to China someday. He is also a very congenial man. The third man is from Holland. He is very fine. We just have loads of fun together. We work and we play. I am the only woman interne [sic] here now. The other woman interne has gone for so long - nobody seems to know anything of her. I hope that she would come back. It is bad if she does not finish her time.
I am not only enjoying my work but I am also enjoying the good things in New York City. Friends have invited me to movies and plays. With what time I have left, I visited some Chinese women in town. I have had quite a number of Chinese patients. They all want me to stay at New York City and start my work here. My mission is at home. I can serve more people in China.
Miss Wooley [sic] is back. Miss Burton - her cabin-mate told me that Miss Wooley saw my good friend and sister - Dr. Tsao at Tientsin. I would love to see Miss Wooley again. I am sailing on S. S. Pine Tree State, April 29th from Seattle reaching Shanghai May 16th. Reservation is made and I am getting my passport now. I am not a bit excited. I am happy to go home because I have a definite training with me. The eight years in America have been very pleasant. I have everything to be thankful. I am looking forward to the day when you can visit our hospital. If I give my life to my work, the people at Tientsin would give means to make our hospital an up-to-date one.
I enjoyed your visit. Is your friend better? I have thought of her many many times. Do visit me again if you should happen to be at New York City before I leave.
With much love.
Yours affectionately,
Me-iung Ting.Willard Parker Hospital,
New York City.