Letter, Chefoo

Subjects: 1) Constance celebrates her 20th birthday and describes the many presents she has had from friends at Chefoo and the family at home. 2) Constance has been very busy nursing Mina and reflects that in the first six months of her time in China she has hardly begun the work she came out to do.


Date(s) of creation: October 30, 1887
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Summary: Subjects: 1) Constance celebrates her 20th birthday and describes the many presents she has had from friends at Chefoo and the family at home. 2) Constance has been very busy nursing Mina and reflects that in the first six months of her time in China she has hardly begun the work she came out to do.
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Language: English
Copies: Transcript available in J. D. Owen, J. Gullick & S. McClure (eds.), 'Married to a Missionary: Constance Douthwaite's letters to her family, 1887-1896, with additional letters from her husband Arthur Douithwaite MD', unpublished, 2009 [copy available in Special Collections Reading Room]
Format: Archive