From Shanghai. He will try and write again on the SS Wingsan bound for Hong Kong, Rangoon and home.
Of all his journeys this has been the most blessed by providence. He is full of thankfulness. The story is in the journal.
He has re-written the Ningpo-Wenchow chapter of his report which is thus completed as far as China is concerned. He hopes to revise it on the way to Hong Kong and then post it from there to Miss [Embleton] at the Mission House. H B R has asked her to let only specified people have copies in STRICT CONFIDENCE. It should not be shown or quoted to anyone at this stage. Emily should start on it with her blue pencil [ie editing it] as he hopes to have it in proof as soon as he returns, so that it can be printed and presented before the first General Committee thereafter.
He is not yet clear about Burma. Unless he can do it by plane, it will hold everything up. He booked his [seat?] on March 21 and if the flight is regular, he would have Thursday April 4 for Burma which would be an almost impossible rush. He assumes that the planes from Hong Kong to Rangoon are fairly numerous and that he should be able to leave on April 5 or 6, arriving in Rangoon a day later. He will probably cable at that point.
The SS Wingsan which he had hoped to join, arrived here thirty minutes after him this morning. She was only supposed to take three days but tides have a lot to do with speed.