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Title: A glimpse of India : being a collection of extracts from the letters Dr. Clara A. Swain, first medical missionary to India of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Swain, Clara A., 1834-1910
Subjects: Methodist Episcopal Church Personal Narratives Physicians
Publisher: New York : James Pott & Co.
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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oyal Wedding Khetriy Rajputana, India, June 22, 1894.. My dear Miss J : Your letter of March 1st reached me in Apriland as soon as I had finished reading it I wrote onesheet in answer and then was called away; now Iwill make another trial which I hope may be suc-cessful. I think our kind Father put it into your heart towrite to me for your letter did me much good, it wasso natural and so cheery. I have felt a fresh inspira-tion ever since; the thought of the crocuses andsnowdrops of my youthful days sometimes gives me alonging for the homeland. I have been without a companion since the 19thof February. Miss Driver who had been with mefour years was obliged to take a change but shedid not expect to be away so long and I thought Icould stay alone for a short time. When I learnedthat she was too ill to return I tried to get some oneto spend the hot season with me but no one seemedwilling to take the long journey in the great heat so Ihave been alone with natives all around me. None (306)
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to s hi A Royal Wedding of them are Christians and I have felt the isolationvery much and have longed sometimes for some oneto speak with in my own language. Letters havebeen a great boon and so have my home papers andbooks, You wish to know of my surroundings. First Iwill tell you about our new house which has been inprocess of building for over four years and is notcompleted yet, though it is so nearly finished that Imoved into it at the beginning of the hot weather.It is a stone building, the walls, roof, and door casingsall of stone, no wood about it except the doors. There is a drawing-room thirty feet by twenty anda bedroom on each side of this twenty by twenty;behind the drawing-room is the dining-room twentyby twenty feet—a lovely room with one fine arch.The walls are colored bufF, panelled with orange andwhite. It is very pretty and is much admired by thenatives. The drawing-room is a deep rose color panelled withwhite and the arches are prettily decorated. Thebedrooms are

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