Letter, Chefoo

Subjects: 1) The Murrays for whom no house is available are Constance’s guests. 2) Stories of exorcism of evil spirits: they migrate to another person. 3) A missionary’s wife is going home leaving her small child behind. 4) Pearl’s behaves well, though distressed, at an unexpectedly long New Year se...

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Date(s) of creation: January 21, 1894
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Summary: Subjects: 1) The Murrays for whom no house is available are Constance’s guests. 2) Stories of exorcism of evil spirits: they migrate to another person. 3) A missionary’s wife is going home leaving her small child behind. 4) Pearl’s behaves well, though distressed, at an unexpectedly long New Year service. 5) Pearl’s amusements: she is enchanted with the new Hunter baby.
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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Douthwaite's letters to her family, 1887-1896, with additional letters from her husband Arthur Douithwaite MD', unpublished, 2009 [copy available in Special Collections Reading Room]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