July 30, 1950.
7A Granville Road, Kowloon, Hongkong.My dear Miss Turner,
I am like a flying fish who comes to serface [sic] of water for a breath of air. Life has been very diffucult [sic] thse [sic] recent two years. One is living under fear all the time. In a communistic country one can just make bread to live but no freedom for anything. There is really no freedom of thought, word and action. Rusisia [sic] is a police state so is China now. The outside can know very little as mail is censored and people do not say very much. On account of a nervous breakdown on my part so I have decided to take a six months vacation. My sisterinlaw [sic] is also needing a medical consultation. With this excuse I got a six months leave for Hongkong. I so hope to come to see you but the difficulty is visa question. What I am telling you now is all just for you, Miss Purington. I do not want any one know about my plan which I am going to tell you. I have gotten a special permit to go on vacation for six months in England without any visa. If I can get a special permit to America then I would fly over from London to New York City. The last is my difficulty for no visa is given now without a passport from Chinese government. I am from communistic China so certainly I would have no passport. National government would hesitate to give me a passport as I live on the otherside [sic] no matter what should be my political views. In fact I have no political views like many common people. We just want peace and happiness in our daily life. I am very anxious to know your present condition. I hope that you are able to be in the open daily.
Just now I am staying at my second brother's house. My brother and my nephew are both refugees at Hongkong. Fortunately each has a profession so they are able to support thier [sic] family. I was at Shanghai in May and our old home is like a poor house with so many people. All good things have gone from our house. I guess our people at Hongkong would not think of moving back until a real peaceful time if there will be one in this near future. Yuch Ming's family is a very large one. Yesterday I spent a day with my nephew's family that is Y.M.'s father. There are six children four girls and two boys. There is one who is about to be thru with high school. She wants to study nursing and this would be a good profession with so many girls. There is one fifteen year old sister and she is so capable and bright. She took me home from Hongkong to Kowloon. There is a ferry between. I am just getting to know a little about this place. It rains very much. In the pouring rain this girl went and got tickets for movie for the family. My sisterinlaw wanted to treat her country sister from Tientsin so I went even in this pouring rain. On Warren's side both his father and mother are very anxious to have the whole family back. For any one practicing at Hongkong one has to have a Britsish [sic] diploma so I have told Y.M. about this. She can go to Canada and get one easily within one year's study in any postgraduate work.
We common people are not concerned with all these high sounding isms. Poor America has to face a very fierce foe Russia. Communism is spreading like wild fire. All colonies here in Asia are being ruled with laws and regulations but not with reason and kindness. The selected few must come down to know the common people and share thier [sic] problems with love. I am just a foreigner in this colony. The rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. The contrast is heart breaking. My back door has a shack with an old woman who can not make enough to live. I have told our cook at house to save everything for her if we have any left over. Poor old woman does not know how to get a license and she was trying to sell her goods on street. She was taken by police and all her goods confiscated. It is very difficult to get a license. The authority only allows a certain number. The population is too large for the colony. It is difficult for people to make a living. Few selfish men give suffering to the common people in every country. Communism is easy to spread becuase [sic] of poverty in Asia.
Kindly write me and tell me about yourself and how you are now. Thru two doctors Dr. Daniels and Dr. Gabriel I have asked them to write to you for me. They passed thier [sic] way at Tientsin before coming to Hongkong to take thier [sic] boats for America. I hope you have heard from them.
I close this hurriedly written letter with much love to you and your night nurse..
Yours lovingly.
Meiung.