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Ping Ting
May 8, 1921
Dear Ida and your boys,
I excuse myself these days in thinking you know that these are strenuous times and will keep writing even if I don�t get written to you personally. There is so much of sickness here (typhus and Relapsing fever and flu) and so much of the hunger that there is little inspiration to write of the joys of life except as we have joys in serving them. I don�t suppose there is anyone here who gets to hear the hunger side of it in such bulk and immensity as I do in the Recruiting Department. But rains have come and new hope and promise have spring up, and we think that some day there will be food again.
I have some of the greatest experiences in my work. Five gangs went off work and went home, something did not suit them. When they got home
Object Description
| Title | Anna V. Blough letter to Ida and boys, May 8, 1921 |
| Creator | Blough, Anna Viola, 1885-1922 |
| Subject |
Blough, Anna Viola, 1885-1922 -- Correspondence Church of the Brethren -- Missions -- China Missions, American -- China -- Shanxi Sheng Missionaries -- China -- Shanxi Sheng |
| Geographic Location | Pingding Xian (China) |
| Description | Anna is in charge of recruiting an organizing the gangs of men who have been hired for the famine projects. It is proving to be rather difficult, but most return after they realize they are hungry. Laura has typhus, and Anna cared for her for six days straight. Deloused all those they were feeding at the mission and sent them home. |
| Publisher | Elizabethtown College |
| Repository | Originals in private collection. Digital images on file at the High Library, Special Collections. |
| Date | 1921.05.08 |
| Date Digital | 2009 |
| Type | Text |
| Format | image/tiff |
| Digital Specifications | Image was scanned by OCLC at the Preservation Service Center/Backstage Library Works in Bethlehem, PA. Archival image is 24 bit color tiffs directly scanned from material at 300 ppi. |
| Identifier | DVD2 1920-1922_0045-0052 |
| Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/ ; For all other uses see the Hess Archives Reproduction Policies and Fee Schedule https://www.etown.edu/library/archives/files/reproduction_fee_schedule.pdf |
| Contributing Institution | Elizabethtown College |
| Sponsorship | This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education. |
| Contact | Hess Archives and Special Collections: https://www.etown.edu/library/archive |
| Original Format | Correspondence |
Description
| Title | Anna V. Blough letter to Ida and boys, May 8, 1921 |
| Creator | Blough, Anna Viola, 1885-1922 |
| Subject |
Blough, Anna Viola, 1885-1922 -- Correspondence Church of the Brethren -- Missions -- China Missions, American -- China -- Shanxi Sheng Missionaries -- China -- Shanxi Sheng |
| Geographic Location | Pingding Xian (China) |
| Transcript | Ping Ting May 8, 1921 Dear Ida and your boys, I excuse myself these days in thinking you know that these are strenuous times and will keep writing even if I don�t get written to you personally. There is so much of sickness here (typhus and Relapsing fever and flu) and so much of the hunger that there is little inspiration to write of the joys of life except as we have joys in serving them. I don�t suppose there is anyone here who gets to hear the hunger side of it in such bulk and immensity as I do in the Recruiting Department. But rains have come and new hope and promise have spring up, and we think that some day there will be food again. I have some of the greatest experiences in my work. Five gangs went off work and went home, something did not suit them. When they got home |
| Publisher | Elizabethtown College |
| Repository | Originals in private collection. Digital images on file at the High Library, Special Collections. |
| Date | May 8, 1921 |
| Date Digital | 2009 |
| Type | Text |
| Format | image/tiff |
| Digital Specifications | Image was scanned by OCLC at the Preservation Service Center/Backstage Library Works in Bethlehem, PA. Archival image is 24 bit color tiffs directly scanned from material at 300 ppi. |
| Identifier | DVD2 1920-1922_0045-0052 |
| Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/ ; For all other uses see the Hess Archives Reproduction Policies and Fee Schedule https://www.etown.edu/library/archives/files/reproduction_fee_schedule.pdf |
| Contributing Institution | Elizabethtown College |
| Sponsorship | This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education. |
| Contact | Hess Archives and Special Collections: https://www.etown.edu/library/archive |
| Original Format | Correspondence |
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