From Hankow. Emily's letter of August 1 arrived this week with one or two kind enclosures. The Mission House is 'very kind and welcoming'.
Margery [Walby's] wedding [to Ronald Leslie Upton] has at last been sorted out and all that remains is to make it as special as possible on September 20th.
H B R has had a very nice letter from [Arthur Stanley] Beaty in Ceylon, pressing on him the advisability of spending two weeks on the island in order to get to know the work.
Emily's news of the children is very comforting - he is sure that Peter will benefit from attending [Kingswood School]. The boy has brains and energy and will be kept busy. He hopes that Morley has done as well as Emily seems to think - his religious aims are interesting and H B R knows that Morley was 'greatly stirred last Swanwick. May he go from strength to strength'.
Sisters G. and N. have arrived and have been appointed quite happily to the Hodge [Hospital] and the Theological School respectively. H B R had a long chat with them - [James] Heady's job next time.
Grace [Ridge], Margery's sister Frances [Walby] and [Arthur Preston] Hadwen have also written. He is sorry for Grace and himself that they must part - it has been a wonderful professional partnership and he knows that she had a very different time during his absence. Perhaps H B R came to lean on her too much - he admires the way that Emily has accepted his closeness with other women. She has certainly been free from the slightest jealousy.
In a postscript he encloses another cheque for part of the purchase price of their bungalow - £12.10 which brings the total sent home so far to £171.9.8. He will send more probably by the end of the month. The purchaser of the bungalow is the Chinese manager of the Tayeh cement works - [Nora] Booth says that she would have bought it if she had known. Perhaps it is better not to have had the feeling that they would have got the better of the deal.
He is thinking of preparing sermons around the texts "The eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth" and "Go ye into all the world & preach the gospel to the whole creation".
H B R has also listened to sermons by Cheng Hsih Chu and a Theological School student. He has had [Sarah] Wolfe and Miss Pritchard in for supper and a talk.