Wong Kai Kah to Fannie Bartlett
ca. February 1882

Alas! Friends whom I had associated with so long were  
separated from me without the chance of saying goodbye  
and we know not when we shall see them again. How like  
a dream all these things are happening, I expect some  
day to awake from it. Yang Tsang is now in Canton  
enjoying his leave of absence with his family. Liang  
Tun Yen is in Tientsin teaching the telegraph school  
boys the rudiments of English. Tsai Shou Kee is an  
assistant translator of the Taotai in Tientsin. They  
receive twelve and ten taels respectively. Woo Yang  
Tsang expects to go to the K’ai Ping mines, and the  
rest of the boys are distributed in various places to  
finish (?) their education, not according to their  
predilections nor to the course they had been pursuing  
in America, but more in accordance with the wishes of  
the Chinese Officials whose ignorance and stupidity  
render them unfit to judge in such matters...