Asticou, Maine 

 21 July, 1914 



Dear Dr. Kennedy: 



You know well what medicine, surgery, 

 and sanitation have done for the white race during the 

 last hundred years, the new achievements of preventive 

 medicine, and the desperate need of all the Oriental people 

 for the knowledge and skill which will enable them to con- 

 tend against the ordinary contagious diseases and the pesti- 

 lences which from time to time devour them. I know, too, 

 from your long service on the Committees to visit the 

 courses in Botany and the Gray Herbarium, that you are 

 disposed to help beneficent work in which you believe. I 

 have been much interested from the beginning in The Harvard 

 Medical School of China, which has now completed its third 

 year of work at Shanghai. It has a good Corporation and 

 Executive Committee in Boston, and a good Faculty in Shanghai, 

 composed mostly of young graduates of American medical schools 

 who have felt strongly the medical missionary Impulse. The 

 School has no substantial financial basis, being supported 

 by subscriptions, part of which are annual, and part are 

 pledged for three or five years. In addition, the School 

 has received one gift of $50,000, one of |25,000 (an en- 

 dowment), and one of f 10, 000 for land. Under a contract 

 with the Chinese Red Cross Society, the School has the use 

 of adequate buildings, including a small hospital; and I have 

 just raised the money needed to carry on a well-equipped 

 Out-Patient Department for one year. We are living from 



