Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

You see those girls cam from all sorts of places even J+m.
Q. These were minly Chinese girls?
.A. Yes, well a lot of them were Chlulese, but they were
-s,
they weren't the American girls. Then I went on a boat
from Nanking. Nanking was fmher nWh than Shanghai ccjnsiderablg but
not an awm lot. But there was a river there and I coqd get to . . .
(pause, looking at map) Well there I visited anyhow, I 4ill have t ) give
you the name. I was ping no&h on this riverboat.
Q. Which river is that?
A. Yangtze, and Nanking is on that river. I had t outh for that
on the river again to Hankow. There is whe~e Olive L
Vachel Lindsay, lived. She was mied to an hric
doctor, and they had children. They mt me; they lm
I had made advance arrangements. Now Hankow is a c
was mre like a b2g business town, a big I'd say heavy
is what it would be.
Q. Did you bow Olive Lindsay before you went?
A. Yes, throw the church. We weren't close at all.
Q. What were they dohg there? 1
A. Missionaries. He was a doctor missionary and she co
She had much train* as an N L and she had b quite a speaker.
She probably was teaching in one way or another. But o
~aising a family too. I stayed overnight there only
was taken around a little. (Looking at the map) N
started at Shanghai, here's Nanking and then I get
Hankow.
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A. . . . hospital. Did I give you this before?
Q. No this is in Peking?
A. I was in touch with them. The nurlses were there in a4vance studying.
They had a home that was arranged to +ve
It was arranged for them to be there qch
the language and that's what they werd doi
wasn't even far enough along tg show that
But they were glad to have me lpecause they had been away
some the, a little longer tha I had. At
the capital of Peking, they togk me on one
And there we went in a j inrikigha. When
hotel of a kind, but we only s$ayed the