Letter, Chefoo

Subjects: 1) Chinese form of address to elderly women. 2) Pearl making progress in learning to speak, including Chinese words. 3) Two teachers recruited for the girls’ school. 4) Constance much aware of her duty to care for her mother in old age. 5) Pearl much enjoys paddling in the shallows when Co...

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Date(s) of creation: August 20, 1893
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Summary: Subjects: 1) Chinese form of address to elderly women. 2) Pearl making progress in learning to speak, including Chinese words. 3) Two teachers recruited for the girls’ school. 4) Constance much aware of her duty to care for her mother in old age. 5) Pearl much enjoys paddling in the shallows when Constance bathes.
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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Douthwaite's letters to her family, 1887-1896, with additional letters from her husband Arthur Douithwaite MD', unpublished, 2009 [copy available in Special Collections Reading Room]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