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And then that Memorial Chapel. I have so often thought of it. I presume it was duly completed. Somehow I had an impression that you were to remain in Europe till this coming Fall and then return home to be present at its dedication. Perhaps I was mistaken in that. I trust you have had the pleasure, to which I know you looked forward with longing anxiety, of praising God with the multitude of your students in the courts of that house.
Our hot weather is again approaching. Mrs.Murch and Jimmie have already gone to Ramleh, where Jimmie is now in school for a few months. They went on the 7th instant. I remain for some five of six weeks longer.
Our Girl's Boarding School was opened last September under most promising circumstances. It goes on so far giving much promise for important work in lifting up what will soon be the women and mothers of the future of this sad land. Had I not already written at such length I might go more fully into the story of the school's work and its promise; but I had better leave that now for another time.
I would be very glad to know if you got any of the books on Egyptology, such as you saw in my Library, and concerning which you wrote me from Syria. I have often reproached myself that I did not instead of answering that letter as I did make application to the British Museum for the grant of certain of those books for the University Library. If you did not get the books, I shall be very glad, I am quite confident, to grant that books in recognition of certain obligations to which they consider themselves under for assistance I have given them at various times in the acquisition of purchases thay have made in Egypt.
Mrs. Murch and Jimmie would join me in kindest regards if they