The men who write devoid of creed to show the failure of 1 qS 

 missions do not know what they are talking about. . . . We 

 are planning to go home again in 1913. I feel that the strain 

 of 8 l /z years is too much at our age. 



Mother was a bit less concentrated. November 29, 1911, 

 she wrote: 



. . . The Board has been visiting us. They are just giving a 

 few days to each Mission, but no doubt will know all about it 

 when they get home! . . . Dr Noble got a good deal of 

 money while she was in America, also a good big sterilizer, so 

 they are prospering all around. 



Late in December, she continued: 



I am thankful to say that we are all living and pretty well. 

 We had what was called the Bradt party, who are travelling 

 around the world visiting Missions. There were 9 in the party. 

 .... At Dehra your father met Nellie with a lot of Wood- 

 stock girls & came home on the same train with her. When he, 

 your father, got home at 1.30 at night, he saw that 7 was not 

 in bed, and after looking all about & not finding me he asked 

 Mohammed Baksh, where the mem sahib was, and he giggled 

 and said "Dilli Kogaya." The day before Miss James, one of 

 our missionaries, came in & said that she & several other ladies 

 were going, and begged me to go along, so I thought it would 

 be a good joke on your father. . . . They were young Rajahs 

 and looked so nice on their fine horses. That was the day the 

 King & Queen arrived at Delhi. We got there at 5 ock in the 

 morning having left Ludhiana at 2.30 the afternoon before. 

 From the R R station to the Fort — not much more than a 

 mile — the roads were lined with soldiers. A salute of 1 1 guns 

 was fired — first 3 3 guns were fired, then a fieu de joie went off 

 — which was a click of every gun, one quickly after the other 

 — then 3 3 more, then another fieu de joie & 3 5 guns &c. By 

 this time they had reached the Fort by another gate & inside 

 had "received" the Rajahs, then they came out our gate. It 

 was a sight worth seeing & I left at 4 ock that afternoon & 

 reached Ludhiana at 5 in the morning, tired but pleased. I then 

 persuaded your father and Nellie to go down for Coronation 

 Day, which they did, and which they have not regretted. That 



