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65 Rowanwood Ave.
Toronto, Dec. 11th 1922

Dear Miss Hosking:-

I received your letter on Sat, and read it with a great deal of interest, and was particularly struck with the sentence, expressing your wish to go to Africa.

Now this afternoon, in speaking with Miss McGillivray our President, and without her knowing even of your existence, she told me that she had a phone, from Miss Jamison of the Congregational Board this morning, asking if there were more nurses applying than we could use.  Immediately I said to myself, "All things work together for good" etc. and I thought of you, because they want the nurse for Africa.

I am therefore sending your letter on to her to-night, asking her to correspond with you.

You see Miss Hosking we have already accepted more for 1925, than we have money to send out; so it will help us, and you too, if you consider this opening.

Yours sincerely,

J. Emily Steele

per E.H.
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Now this afternoon, in speaking with Miss McGillivray our President, and without her knowing even of your existence, she told me that she had a phone, from Miss Jamison of the Congregational Board this morning, asking if there were more nurses applying than we could use.  Immediately I said to myself, "All things work together for good" etc. and I thought of you, because they want the nurse for Africa.

We see here that Sibyl originally applied to be a Presbyterian missionary to Africa, and that the Presbyterians passed her along to the Congregationalists.  I wonder where the Presbyterian missions in Africa were. 

My impression is that Congregationalists are a little less God-fearing than Presbyterians.  So I asked AG (Sibyl's daughter) how Sibyl's parents would have felt about her being a Congregational missionary rather than a Presbyterian missionary.  AG said: "Not good."

I suspect Sibyl feared the same, because we've got the letter she wrote to her parents about it:

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Emily Steele at the Presbyterian board wrote in this letter that the contact at the Congregational board in Canada was Miss Jamieson, though Miss Steele mis-spelled it as Jamison.  Miss Jamieson is Effie A. Jamieson, and this may be the first time, but certainly not the last time, that we hear about her.  It's definitely the first time that we hear about her in relation to Sibyl.  Fred has probably already had some dealings with Miss Jamieson by this time, but if I've come across them, I haven't noticed them.  The next we hear of her is in a letter that she wrote to Sibyl nearly three years later:
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This is in 1922, and the Simangos (for whom there's a Non-Family page on this website) did their fundraising tour of the US for African missions in 1923.  Conceivably Sibyl had met the Simangos already at this time, but so far I don't know.
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