Letter, Chefoo

Subjects: 1) Chinese New Year interrupts the steamer service from Shanghai. 2) Schools’ programme for College of Preceptors exam delayed. 3) Mrs Nevius still much afflicted by grief over her husband’s death. 4) About Pearl and the domestic routine at Chefoo. 5) A boy of six boarding at the school co...

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Date(s) of creation: February 18, 1894
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Summary: Subjects: 1) Chinese New Year interrupts the steamer service from Shanghai. 2) Schools’ programme for College of Preceptors exam delayed. 3) Mrs Nevius still much afflicted by grief over her husband’s death. 4) About Pearl and the domestic routine at Chefoo. 5) A boy of six boarding at the school comforted by a warm fire. 6) Pearl and her dolls in the bath.
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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Douthwaite's letters to her family, 1887-1896, with additional letters from her husband Arthur Douithwaite MD', unpublished, 2009 [copy available in Special Collections Reading Room]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