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No. 1, Homantin Hill Road,
Kowloon, Hongkong.

September 14, 1938

Conduit Rd

Madame Sun Yat-sen,
Apartment 2B,
11 Connaught Road,
HOngkong.

Dear Madame Sun:

Permit me this opportunity to thank you for your very great kindness in granting me an interview and the great honor of meeting you. Guided by your esteemed advice and inspired by your good wishes, I have but one desire--to carry out my mission in the United States for the cause of our country. I feel that with your moral support I must exert my utmost to make my trip a successful one. With this added impetus and enthusiasm I am quite confident this trip will culminate in success.

You have kindly offered to assist me in many ways and I find it difficult to appropriately express my gratification. You have been good enough to offer to give me several letters of introduction and to supply me a set of war pictures. These I regard as of inestimable value to me.

I am definitely scheduled to leave for the United States on the 22nd of September by the Pan-American Clipper from Hongkong and I shall feel greatly honored again to be granted another meeting with you to receive further advice from you and to obtain the above articles. I shall be pleased to come at any date which will be convenient to you and it will be excellent if the date can be arranged a few days prior to my departure.

Thanking you again for your very kind interest in my humble undertaking, I am,

Very faithfully yours,
Lee Ya Ching