Letter, Chefoo

Subjects: 1) The weather unseasonably cool and wet – not good for the harvest. 2) Pearl in a better environment than many missionaries’ children and is learning new words. 3) The Hunters have taken charge of the boys’ school. 4) Starvation due to a bad harvest. 5) Two stories of converts who have ma...

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Date(s) of creation: June 11, 1893
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Summary: Subjects: 1) The weather unseasonably cool and wet – not good for the harvest. 2) Pearl in a better environment than many missionaries’ children and is learning new words. 3) The Hunters have taken charge of the boys’ school. 4) Starvation due to a bad harvest. 5) Two stories of converts who have made good.
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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Douthwaite's letters to her family, 1887-1896, with additional letters from her husband Arthur Douithwaite MD', unpublished, 2009 [copy available in Special Collections Reading Room]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