Please return all these to A. H. Turner132 Chengtu Road, Tientsin (10) China.
My dear Miss Turner;
This is 8th of December and I am very anxious to get this letter to you before the happy season Christmas. Your letter dated Nov. 9th came and I was happy to hear about Mount Holyoke Art Department. I remember Miss Foss. I read some thing about her work in the Quarterly also. One can hardly realize that time goes very fast. I love to see Mount Holyoke College once more but this must wait. With this letter I would enclose my letter to members of American Delegation for you. Mrs. Anderson was the president and she would type my letter and mail to other members of this delegation. She has a secretary and she said that she would do anything for me. I am taking this advantage for my time is rather limited now with my work as the chairman of International Relief Committee. So many are leaving for Hongkong and inland citites. I do not think that moving would do any good. I do not fear any personal danger as I belong to no party. The Communists are down on government people. I have noticed in the paper that even Brizil [sic] is full of communists. I think that ism is very dangerous for all nations.
Because of bad condition here I have asked Dennis to stay on for another year completing his special certificate for surgery. I think that is what he is working toward. He has gotten his M. S. in Anatomy and Physiology. With the new baby it would be too difficult to live in China at present. So far as need at hospital is concerned I really can have both to help there immediately. But the situation is so uncertain that I hate to do anything to hinder their chances in life. Under communism there would be no perosnal [sic] freedom whatever. I am also concerned with Yoeh Ming and Warren. But I think Warren's home is at Hongkong and so far there is no fighting there. Many are going to Formosa. If both Yueh Ming and Warren can find work they should remain for another year also.
In today's paper there areseveral[sic] hundred U. S. Marines landing at Shanghai to protect American lives and properties.If American marines had stayed in China five years to see both Japanase [sic] and Russian[s] out of China_ this communistic war may have been postponed until China is really strong enough to fight it out herself.
So many Americans have left Tientsin. Our schools are depleted again of English speaking teachers. It is very difficult to get teachers after war. No university or college is moving to communistic free area. We are too poor to move to any place and we would just wait to see what is our destiny in the future. My house is like a godown [sic] now for so many people have stored their boxes and trunks with me. One scholar had three rooms of books and he has gone to Hongkong. He has given this private library to Nankai. I helped with the moving. Everything good should be given to the public. At time of war no one person can be bothered with these volumous [sic] books but they are useful for instruction.
With this letter I am enclosing few copies of paper clippings which I had my office typed. [No longer with the letter.] From these you would learn much about my daily life. I send this letter with my warmest love for you for this hapy [sic] season. I am not able to write to all but if possible kindly share these clippings with Miss Purington and Miss Griffith. My typewriteris getting too old for repair. I have been given a small new one and I am saving it for my tra[...] day. This is one reason that is why so [...] typing.
Yours lovingly.
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