Narok,
Masai Reserve, Kenya Colony
East
Africa. Nov. 8. 1934
Dear
Folks:
Guess
it is high time to be getting a letter off to you if it’s to
say
Merry Christmas to you. I’m just starting this in school
hoping it
will then get finished in due time. There are several letters
here
from Lo & Co - and a post comes in today so there may be
more. I
haven’t them here with me so will bring Syabei history up to
date.
Guess
I wrote you about a month ago - Mrs. Probst was here. She
seemed to
enjoy herself & we certainly enjoyed her. She’s that
“comfortable” sort of guest that seems more like one of us
than a
guest. She is just a bit older than I am & tho she was
raised
[part of page missing] When Mrs. Probst left the last of Oct.
Mr.
Clarke came home from his furlo that night. that was Wed. and
Sat.
Scudders & Miss Grindley came out. They hadn’t heard from
their home Com. about whether or not they could get a lorry
& as
they were just waiting about, they thot they’d come out for
the
week end. then they left Miss G. til they should know what to
do. so
today we had the wire. We are glad for her help for this short
time
but we’d have liked her to stay longer. only we are glad too
to
have them get to the people up there with the Gospel. & if
they
have a lorry & their car, they should be able to take enuf
things
to be fairly comfortable. We wanted them to come here for Xmas
Evening. Didn’t get very far while at school and now the mail
has
come with another Am. & 2 Readers Digests. one from Al.
and also
an announcement that the Digests are coming for two years -
thanks to
Mrs. Lora Butzbach and last mail an Am. came from Al. and also
a
calendar from the Pub. house but some one must have ordered
it. Thank you very much, Edward, for I’m quite sure it’s due
you. Another thing we got this evening over which I’m not
rejoicing so much, is a wire from Scudders to say they are
about
ready for safari & that Miss Grindley should return on
Wed. We
are so sorry for we are enjoying her so much & she’s doing
such
a lot of typing which helps so much. But I haven’t connected
up
her being here [paper missing] so good. ...in Penn. on a farm
we’ve
had very similar “bringing up”. Grandma Myers, is from Feb. to
June younger than Mother. Both she & Mrs. Probst are very
heavy.
I think Grandma is close onto 200 lbs. and Mrs. Probst must be
180 or
so. She can still get around fairly well. but Grandma pushes a
chair
before her like a baby learning to walk. She managed to get
outside
where they backed a car & got her in & took her to the
hospital - that is, where Miss Stevenson the nurse lives.
& she
took care of her while Mrs. Probst was here. That’s the first
time
she was outside the house since Jan. 1930 when she staid at
R.V.A. to
attend Conf. so it was quite an adventure for her and from all
reports she greatly enjoyed it.
[rest
of letter missing]
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