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
Level: Item
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
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scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
callnumber MS 381056/01/17
callnumber_txt MS 381056/01/17
callnumber-sort MS 381056/01/17
prefix_number 17
title Letter, Chefoo
scb_date_creation October 30, 1887
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description 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.
scb_access_status Restrictions apply
scb_conditions_gov_access Users should consult transcript of item in first instance. Original item can only be consulted with written agreement of the Archivist. Please apply to special.collections@soas.ac.uk
scb_use_restrictions For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance
language English
language_search English
scb_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Douthwaite's letters to her family, 1887-1896, with additional letters from her husband Arthur Douithwaite MD', unpublished, 2009 [copy available in Special Collections Reading Room]
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