Letter, Chefoo

Subjects: 1) Constance strongly criticizes the [Plymouth?] Brethren, who disparage the C.I.M. but rely on its support for their own missionaries. Neither she nor AWD had much time for the Brethren movement in its more fundamentalist expression, even though her Grandfather Anthony Norris Groves, was...

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Date(s) of creation: January 28, 1894
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Summary: Subjects: 1) Constance strongly criticizes the [Plymouth?] Brethren, who disparage the C.I.M. but rely on its support for their own missionaries. Neither she nor AWD had much time for the Brethren movement in its more fundamentalist expression, even though her Grandfather Anthony Norris Groves, was one of the founding fathers. 2) Constance and Arthur but not Pearl afflicted by local flu epidemic. 3) More about Pearl including an accident, which narrowly escaped doing serious injury to her eye. 4) Photos and missionary news.
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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Douthwaite's letters to her family, 1887-1896, with additional letters from her husband Arthur Douithwaite MD', unpublished, 2009 [copy available in Special Collections Reading Room]
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