19 Jan. 1947, 19 Jan. 1947

On the day before leaving Istanbul for the mid-term vacation, Kierstead writes of a change of plans. She will now be visiting the region surrounding Tarsus with just one friend, Dorothy Wood, since the others have come down with dysentery. She tells of a recent trip with Wood to Saint Sophia and gives detailed descriptions of the ornamented column capitals from the excavated "second Saint Sophia" that stood during the early Christian period.