Enclosure No. 4.
Chr
Canton, 26th November 1925
Dear Mr. Clementi,
I thank you for the letter which Dr.
Tso brought. While, as you say, we have not met before, we are not strangers to each other, especially as your reputation as a scholar, of the East as of the West, has long ago reached me. Mentioning
your Uncle Mr. Cecil Clementi Smith, if I remember correctly I had the pleasure of seeing him in company with my late father in London in 1909.
I appreciate your invitation to visit Hongkong, and entirely agree with your suggestion that we should meet as soon as possible. But it is unfortunately difficult, almost physically impossible for me to leave Canton at present
even Dr. Tso
during his short stay here has seen enough to bear me out
-- on account of our exertions to do as much for the people as we can as quickly as possible. However, I have oftener complained to my Hongkong friends, Mr. Fletcher for instance, that they do not visit Canton often enough. Many difficulties can be removed by mutual misunderstanding. I trust it will be possible, even before I get down to Hongkong, for you to pay a visit here. Your old haunts
and associations must make an irresistable appeal
to you.
Yours sincerely,
(sd) C.C.Wu.
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