Letter, Chefoo

Subjects: 1) The antipathy of Chinese to foreigners can be overcome by healing them. 2) The urgent need for more male missionaries in China. 3) Arthur disagrees with Hudson Taylor over recruitment policy and regrets that the Brethren are accepting men who have failed in the C.I.M. and subsequently l...

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Date(s) of creation: September 25, 1893
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 381056/02/69
callnumber_txt MS 381056/02/69
callnumber-sort MS 381056/02/69
prefix_number 69
title Letter, Chefoo
scb_date_creation September 25, 1893
scb_level Item
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description Subjects: 1) The antipathy of Chinese to foreigners can be overcome by healing them. 2) The urgent need for more male missionaries in China. 3) Arthur disagrees with Hudson Taylor over recruitment policy and regrets that the Brethren are accepting men who have failed in the C.I.M. and subsequently left it. 4) Arthur’s cure for leprosy not yet fully proven: general scepticism over finding any cure for the disease. 5) Pearl so being so restless is a difficult subject to photograph.
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Douthwaite's letters to her family, 1887-1896, with additional letters from her husband Arthur Douithwaite MD', unpublished, 2009 [copy available in Special Collections Reading Room]
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hierarchy_sequence MS_381056.0002.0069