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yourself.
One other omission of which I am very conscious is that I have not yet sent off the list of books to Longman's Greene. I have the list practically complete now, and will send you a copy in my next letter when I send the photographic copies of the diploma.
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as it took My journey out here was rather a long one, 31 days to reach Alexandria by boat. From Egypt onwards every- thing went very well. My wife reached Colombo by air from Australia on the same day that I arrived in Calcutta, and we met in Calcutta three days later. Work has been very heavy since my return, and in the Shanghai Medical College we are now about to embark on an U.N.R.R.A. training scheme for medical personnel, which is in addition to our ordinary work. Conditions go from bad to worse here as regards finance. The U.S. dollar was selling on the black market for $3,500 last week, which is about equivalent to the non- black market figure for the pound this month. Local prices of most things have increased from 5 to 10 times since I left China last autumn. Standards of nutrition and ordinary resistance to disease are at a very low ebb among themembers of this College, and two of my own staff members have gone down with tuberculosis during the last month. These things are all very worrying, but one is helpless to do very much about it.
In many respects I shall not be sorry to receive the summons to proceed to another field of work.
I will be writing to you again very shortly about the other matters mentioned above.
With kind regards,
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Yours sincerely,
Garstan
Gordon King.
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