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CHIANG-KAI-SHEK, Madame (Soong Mei-ling). Typed letter signed ("Mayling Soong Chiang") to the author Pearl S. Buck, Chung-King, Szechuan, 15 August 1941. 1 full page, 4to, on headed stationery of "Headquarters of the Generalissimo."
MADAME CHIANG TO PEARL BUCK. "I have been wanting to write you for a very long time. In fact, when Mr. Lin-Yutang was here last year, I thought of sending you a line by him, but I decided to wait for the receipt of the Book of Hope so that I could tell you of its reception by our women.Our women know all about it, and are eagerly awaiting to accord it a welcome, for I shall put it on exhibition. This will, I am sure, bring homethe very real love which you, and other American friends hold for us, and the understanding which you have of our daily and hourly struggle to free China from Japan's stranglehold." She goes on to write of here persistent malaria, but explains that "until the air raids in let up, I feel that I should remain in Chungking.
The successful author energetically raised funds for food and medical supplies for the Nationalist Chinese cause, and invited 1,000 American women to make donations; their names were to be inscribed in a "Book of Hope" as a record of their philanthropy. At this date, Chiang-Kai-Shek's Nationalists, in uneasy alliance with Mao-Tse Tung's armies, had been resisting the Japanese invasion since 1937.
MADAME CHIANG TO PEARL BUCK. "I have been wanting to write you for a very long time. In fact, when Mr. Lin-Yutang was here last year, I thought of sending you a line by him, but I decided to wait for the receipt of the Book of Hope so that I could tell you of its reception by our women.Our women know all about it, and are eagerly awaiting to accord it a welcome, for I shall put it on exhibition. This will, I am sure, bring homethe very real love which you, and other American friends hold for us, and the understanding which you have of our daily and hourly struggle to free China from Japan's stranglehold." She goes on to write of here persistent malaria, but explains that "until the air raids in let up, I feel that I should remain in Chungking.
The successful author energetically raised funds for food and medical supplies for the Nationalist Chinese cause, and invited 1,000 American women to make donations; their names were to be inscribed in a "Book of Hope" as a record of their philanthropy. At this date, Chiang-Kai-Shek's Nationalists, in uneasy alliance with Mao-Tse Tung's armies, had been resisting the Japanese invasion since 1937.
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