Dear Daughter Phyllis:—There don't seem much to write about this week but if I wasn't to send off a letter Sunday I don't know when it would get to go. I suppos~ jou being on the seashore can cate the mail boats easy but none of the papers round the Center publish steamer sailings and anyway seems easier just to write a letter and put it in the yest office and fet the government do the rest of "ko worrying. I don't see why Shanghai business men can't do tnat way and not rush, their stenographers so on mail days.
But speaking of boats there's one bringing you a special delivery package, not to say a_ registered setter, and I only hope you won't blame me too much if you don't care for it. You can get Madge to get rid of it for you if are too tenderhearted. Don't worry I haven't hired Jack to act as special messenger to bring you some of my raised doughnuts and cream cookies, much as I'd_ like to. Its Miss Priscilla Cabot Alden who is travelling to, the Orient and asked me for a letter of introduction to you. I' thought she seemed too highfalutin and lahdaydahish for you to enjoy sher much, or for her to associate with working girls, but she says'she wants to meet every' body, she's collecting types, and really she might take a position herself just to acquire local colour. Something in the missionary line or maybe teaching I calculated.
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