132 Chengtu Road, Tientsin, China.Dear Miss Turner;
Your airmail dated April 23rd came to me May 10th. I was so happy to get it as it told me of the weddings. I read your letter three times so really I got the picture of these two weedings [sic] of our girls. Two more Mount Holyoke Quarterly came and I read every page. Everything made me very homesick for America. In regard to Alice I think that she is accepted at Wheaton College. The college is a good one although somewhat smaller than mount [sic] Holyoke. I think Alice is much more serious minded than Mary Jean. She is a ploddder. [sic] I think that Alice will make good as she is also older. The young Mr. Young will be sailing from Shanghai May 20th on Marine Linx. I think the ship will get to San Francisco about June 10th. The boat will stop at Hongkong and Manila and other cities. This boy knows the address of Mary Jean so Mary Jean will see to it that my little gift of bed spread will get to you. The patient made it and she wanted to express her appreciation to me. I want to express my appreciation of what you have done for me personally and my family. I am so hoping that the peaceful condition will be here so we can invite you to visit us in China and stay with us. It would be our pleasure to show a little bit of our love for you.
For the coming summer I expect my nephew S. V. and his wife Mary Kay would be with us. My other niece S. T. and her two boys would be here also. Now there are good boats running between Tientsin and Shanghai taking about 48 hours. This is not too bad. But it seems to me there are too many people going here and there and everywhere. There is that restlessness among people which I have never noticed before. We have now so many students from Szechuan province at Tientsin following the returning of colleges. These students cannot go homes [sic] for vacations and some of them have to stay for four years in college dormitories. These young people are very earnest in their studies considering how little they have in way of physical comforts. Their food is poor, their room space is nothing very spacious and in winter months they had no heat. We are very poor after the war. There is one redeeming feature that is our students love studies. Ofcourse [sic] with almost ten years of disturbance our educational standard as a whole is low today. There are too many students and there are too few schools. It is beyonddoubt [sic] that Russia would be the next foe. She is causing disturbance in every country. Russia accuses America of helping China in her civil war. But the actual truth is she is the one helping our lawless communists. Under communism there is no freedom of religion, no freedom of press and no freedom of speech. It is another form of despotism in polished form. Communists in China have done so many cruel actions that people just hate them. Some American authors have written in flowery language for communism. The book like Thunder Out China. Our National Government is to be blamed for lots lots of things but our leader Chiang has done his best. China is too big and China is too old for one man to change her. We are parying [sic] for peace daily. If communists are cutting railways as they are doing now soon we would be all facing starvation. People are not allowed to cultivate land so there would be no food. It is the fearful condition that communism is trying to create. Russia has depleted Manchuria of every heavy industry. This is just a sad world for people would not learn the real lesson of giving. The later gives happiness.
You remember the picture you sent to Abby years ago with the title My Creed. I have taught all our children these verses by heart. I just joked with Abby if she remembered the verses and if she could put it in writing for me. She did and here she has put down these verse from her childhood memory. We must early teach children these virtures [sic] of being true, pure, strong, brave etc. If all the money spent for war could be averted to be used for scholarships in every country the world may be a happier one than the present one.
I am so happy to hear about your plan to work up the history of the teaching of physiology at Mount Holyoke College and together with the practice of medicine. The practice of medicine is easy now for there are so many specific sulfa drugs and penicillin and now streptomycin. The last is very expensive yet for general use I undertsand. [sic] You are 72 so you have seen this wonderful and interesting age_ these fifty years have accomplished more than last five hundred years.
My Journal of A. M. A. will be up by June. I shall be glad if you can continue this for me for another year. I have some American money but there is no way of getting it out. If I should apply government permit probably the red tape would take me three months for this subscription. There are too few students coming to America now for permits are too difficult to get. For books I want really to know what you have sent me. My nephew S. W. has givenme [sic] Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine. Dr. Brown has given me Journal of Gynecology and Surgery and Modern Medicine. I really have enough journals now. It is better to have just few and be able to read all interesting articles than to have too many that one cannot absorb.
I have just learned that there is only one member of McLeans living. Dr. McLean died the year I was in America. Her sister Miss Jean died 1945. There is only a sisterinlaw living Mrs. Florence McLean to whom I have been able to contact after these years of war. Dr. and her sister have been so kind to me and they did so much for me. I am happy that I am able to give a scholarship at Yenching University to a woman student in memory of Dr. McLean. It started this year. This is a graduate student in School of Religion. China is in need of educated theologians to spread the christian religion. There is no religion that teaches love even your enemies.
This is getting late at night and I am going to close this letter with much love and gratitude to you. You are not getting old for your spirit is young. The spirit lives in us for ever. When I can I would want to write a letter to Miss Wolley [sic] also. She is a great woman with a great mind.
Yours lovingly,
Me_iung.