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Letter to Wong Kat Yan (Huang Ji Ren) and two other people from a friend in Ogden, Utah (stamped the store's business seal: Wing Hing Lung, 2459 Grant St. Ogden, Utah) on October 14th, 1927 and it was written in Chinese. Dear Brothers Ji Ren, Yan Fa and Zao Qi, My youngest son has just finished without degree from Pui Cheng Middle School as he was supposed to graduate with a diploma in June this year. Yesterday I have just received the letter from Brother Zhen Zhang that there is a ship leaving Hong Kong to Seattle on October 10th. But earlier than that, I learned from his letter that he would take the Matheson Ship on October 5th and that he should arrive in Seattle on the 24th. He is holding a visa issued by the American Embassy and a letter from a principle of an oriental college here, so naturally he should be able to get in the port. But since he is in a strange land without people knowing him, he has to need someone to help him out. I most eagerly hope that you could find some time in your busy schedule to go fetch him at Seattle port and help him to find accommodation. I am enclosing one hundred Yuan and please use it for this purpose. And, when my son applied for the visa here at the province, he claimed that his father does business in China and not in America. I hope you could be discreet about it.

2009.012.012