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Communication No 103
Department of Anatomy
Peking Union Medical College Sunday January 16th 1926
Peking, China. Adena's Birthday

Dearest wee mater mine,
Tis Sunday and Adena's Birthday all ay once - and
time to wish you Many Many Happy returns too if so be they are to reach
you on or before the Day. Dear little mother may we spend many of them
together and may you soon be free from that rotten rheumatikiz sos we
can celebrate em in style. Your very welcome letter of Dec 13th reached
me yesterday together with a very large budget of forein mail. While I
think of it tell Gov I have written three times since I recieved his good
birthday letter - sent all care of Head Office so he should have got em.
I hope to write him again by the end of this week. My wee small birthday
remembrance to you will go by next weeks letter. I have to go down to
Tientsin tomorrow for a couple of days to arrange matters connected with
the beginning of our Chou Kou Tien excavation and related research so
I have to leave a lot of things over till the end of the week. We have
recieved letters from Dr Nevitt and from Grace and the reports of Mrs
Nevitte condition are not satisfactory. So we have talked ways and means
intensively and it may be Adena and the kids will go home this summer
and I follow as soon as I can clean up my job. We cannot make a definite
decision yet till the buget has been scanned more carefully but it is
certainly a possibility. Davy has had a very rotten week with a bad cold
which we feared was measles for awhile - but it is clearing up I think -
certainly he is feeling top hole and he was afar from that two days ago. He
has been in bed since Monday last and has just now wakened from his aft.
sleep and is calling "Daddy!! Please you come!!". So I shall go for a minute.
.....That was a long minute - closer on to two hours ! Davy had a bunhc of
different coloured plasticene and was busy making coolie which he
managed very well. Then the grammophone had gone out of order so I stopped
to enquire after its health and found on of the governor springs bust.