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Show T»ung Chou,Peking,July I9th,I8I5, Bear Dr«Tallmon,and Miss Edith; Thank you very much for your kind greetings on my birthday,which was officially yesterdayjtho'my Wife-with her partners hetre and in Peking-got up a surprise Picnic for me^which took place early in the? p, zxu,and the Chinese preachers & teachers whom we had invited came after 4^and each party affected to have had a good time^in each case ameliorated by liberal doses of ice-cream and caw • I am glad to near such good accounts of lit-tla^ rthur,who is a Prodigy,but wait till the next One gets his work in and it will be 'nip and tuck*. With 'warm* regards-and much love also, $* %~AX& OUL^^X ^*-~* o. Sincerely yours, c*~ |
