Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life and Letters of Laura Askew Haygood Letters from Yokohama - Arrival and Welcome at Shanghai home-making - Letter to Alumna of Girls' High School Heavy Correspondence - Letter to Mrs. Cheshire - Preparatory School Work - English Bible Classes - Waiting for the Mail Letters to Mrs. W. A. Haygood - New Year Festivities - Mm cries - First Chinese Wedding Feast - Letter to Mr. W. A. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.