Letter, Chefoo

Subjects: 1) The house overcrowded with visitors. 2) Steamer sails without the Ballers who had booked a passage. 3) Arthur obliged to go out in a bad typhoon. 4) Mr Smith, an old friend of Constance, overstays his welcome. 5) The canary flies away and her horse, unsafe to ride, has to be sold.


Date(s) of creation: September 7, 1891
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Summary: Subjects: 1) The house overcrowded with visitors. 2) Steamer sails without the Ballers who had booked a passage. 3) Arthur obliged to go out in a bad typhoon. 4) Mr Smith, an old friend of Constance, overstays his welcome. 5) The canary flies away and her horse, unsafe to ride, has to be sold.
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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Douthwaite's letters to her family, 1887-1896, with additional letters from her husband Arthur Douithwaite MD', unpublished, 2009 [copy available in Special Collections Reading Room]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