Sunday, January 28, 2018

Letters of Dr. Harry Lee Canright, China Missionary

Here are the letters of Dr. Harry Lee Canright, China missionary, as they appeared in The Medical Missionary, Vol. XXIII, No. 1, January 1914, a publication of the American Medical Missionary Association (115 Washington Ave., N. Battle Creek, Michigan).

I am not going to take the time now to transcribe the text.  Instead, I have 5 snapshots of the letters.
Here is snapshot 1.  Click on the image and it will become larger and more readable.
Here is snapshot 2. It has a photo of the rear of the hospital at Chengtu.
Here is snapshot 3.
 Here is snapshot 4.  It has a photo of the front of the hospital.

Here is snapshot 5.  The Canright letter is just the one paragraph at the top left.
Here is a snapshot of the publication cover page.

Notice the subscription in 1914 was 50 cents a year for a monthly periodical mailed to your home.  That is about the cost of a single stamp today.  A postage stamp back then was 2 cents. Here is  webpage showing the increasing cost of a 1st class stamp.  This is one measure of inflation:
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/other/postage.html

Robert Canright

PS: there are a number of Robert Canrights.  We are all related.

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