We felt the more interested, Amy, in your little letter, which left
Foochow just before Christmas, because the very day it came we had been
talking with a lady who had spent many years in China, and who told us
some very interesting things about its people. We will be pleased to
have you write again, and tell us whether you intend to learn to speak
and write Chinese while you are in the Flowery Land. We would try to do
so if we were there, difficult as it is.
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