Letter, SS Bengal

Subjects: 1) The missionary party went ashore at Gibraltar and visited the underground artillery galleries, the fruit market and the soldiers’ Institute. 2) Constance continues her Chinese classes and her Scandinavian friends teach her a little of their language.


Date(s) of creation: September 12, 1890
Level: Item
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Summary: Subjects: 1) The missionary party went ashore at Gibraltar and visited the underground artillery galleries, the fruit market and the soldiers’ Institute. 2) Constance continues her Chinese classes and her Scandinavian friends teach her a little of their language.
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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Douthwaite's letters to her family, 1887-1896, with additional letters from her husband Arthur Douithwaite MD', unpublished, 2009 [copy available in Special Collections Reading Room]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