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Show 0, I forgot to tell you what Chang &uei Ch'eng said about the .prlce for the work he has dcne. He is chargliîg three dollars^each for the two sets of place doilies and two dollars each for the runners, màking fourteen dollars in ail plus the cuEtoms and postage. This is what the work cost him, he says; he is not charg-n y /ou Liii7 profit, because it is you. I will/ ge„t the mone^ froc Mrs, Ellis wiaora I aokee. to keèp it aatil ;Ue wocrk was finished. As you already know I gave gïatéji ^iss Mc^wigan the let-ter Brom the Board which you sent via me and she a^nswered direetly to the Board i understand. She has not been happy hère and cannot make up her mind to stay another year but perhaps when Miss ^elson aomes out in September and she sees her and realizes how necessary more un-interrupted study is to her if she -is to teach nurses, I think she may décide to stay* I hâve just had a letter from ^iss Nelson herself in addition to the Board's letter saying that she hopes to corne out this Fall and needless.to say x am delighted. X hope nothing arises to prevent» Do you happen to know vjhether or not the Board h«sad from my friend whom I wrote asKing her if she wisheà to assume Miss Nelson's debt in order to permit Miss N. to corne a year earlier? i wrote a-s soon as I had your letter telling me the reason why she could not corne this year. You will remember the friend, Mrs» D. fi Curtis of Oakland in whose home I lived while in Oakland High School. I shall be interested to know what respohse Mrs» Curtis makes. She may not be at home and the letteâ? majc be some time in reau.hing her. Mr. Chandler was dov/n hère during the last of thé bandit troubles just after Dr«Tucker was hère and wrote his letter to you and Mp.c. wrote Mr. Strong in Bostonoarging some sort of relief immediately• The Board promptly responded by sending out $4$ir,uU for the salary for a year for a Chinese doctor. 1t >• cornes in good time for me to hâve Dr. Chang ^now $rs. Hsti, Dr, Hsu's sister-in-law; of Tehchow corne down for the two months a am away at «^eitaiho this summer - rather she will stay two months tho i shall be gone six weeks and Dr. IJsu.two of that time. . . , . X want to find a woman to corne for a permanent position as 1 think there is very little likeljtfiood that we can get a foreign woman to take my place while I am on furlough and if we can get some one now she will be working in as well as reliewing me this year. We hâve no prospect of anyone yet. You hâve heard from the Board that we hâve recèived from the Ltilitary authorities, first Sluuu^uw (G-eneral Ku and the Chamber of Commerce of Lintsing; and later •ç»5uu.uu from the Miliraty Governor at Tsinan to apply on the #i^5o.«y expenses we oacurred "for the soldiery last year, i This was brot about by Mr. MeCarron, the gentleman who died last Feoruary* As tho. ootlmate of our expensoa for this year, exclusive of the repairing of the roof, was $<?Oo«uu more thaa we had in sigliu at the beginning of the year £ no, that is not true, we did count in the $luuw,uu, so that the $!5uu.uÛyjfoes towards the %2J0U,K>U) you can see how grateful we mère at the receipt of the Bialp. Our clinics are soaring and our inpatients, are increaaing,the latter slowly however. During the fourth month fair we had î^w one day, 14? another and eighty another. The ordinary clinies are; large too right along so our work is not going backward by any means in spite of the fact that our prices are higher. We now charge two coppers admission to the clinic and they pay for medicines anywhere from five coppers to fifty according |