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formerly professor of English in Peiyang University where T'ang Tse Ch'ing worked with him, and now in Dartmouth. Owen himself had long planned a two-year trip across central Asia, and had actually started, w when he hadto return to Peking for further permits to carry arms. He and Denny had been very good friends, and by the time he got back he had decided that they had to get married. So they are secretly going ahead with their plans, and today Dorothy spent a large part of the afternoon shopping for Eleanor's trousseau

Mrs. Ferguson and Mary came over to lunch with us as they are moving from one part of their house to another and today they move the kitchen. 

In the evening Dorothy and I went to Pei Hai to see the lanterns there, but did not stay long enough for the fireworks. This is the Feast of Lanterns, the fifteenth of the first moon, Little New Year, the official end of all the celebrating. On the way home we stopped at the DuNord for a good beefsteak dinner. 

Sunday, 28 February 

This afternoon the Peking Literary Association met at Y. S. C. S. The group, consisting of about fifty members, meets monthly in different libraries, and I had been asked to invite them for this time. Our arrangements were made rather late, so the word did not get that I would make the requested in English [[underlined]] with interpretation [[underlined]], and the combination of fear of English and holiday left-overs kept all but about ten away. We had a good meeting however. They began to come about two and Mr. Fu, Mr. Kuo, and I received them. Shortly after three we gathered in comfortable chairs in a spcaious corner, and I gave my address on problems of our special library and the Western sources for the study of China. Mr. Yuan, the president, gave a summary of my remarks in Chinese. At Fu's instigation I had made an introduction in Chinese, which pleased the group very much. Still I would not risk a full Chinese speech. After the speech we had a picture taken, then had tea. Dorothy and Louise had been househunting, and they came back in time for Dorothy to help us entertain at tea (which the hostel provided), while Lou, more bashful, took hers in my study. Wm. B had been in to see the group before the talk, and Arthur Hummel came in for the end of it and for tea, so we had a well