Letter, Chefoo

Subjects: 1) Pearl shares in Chinese greetings for New Year. 2) News of missionaries’ actual and future movements: Mrs Judd in very poor health. 3) Savage punishment of a Chinese thief by the military prompts Constance to comment on the ugly reality of the Chinese nature. 4) Story of Pearl and the b...

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Date(s) of creation: February 25, 1894
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Summary: Subjects: 1) Pearl shares in Chinese greetings for New Year. 2) News of missionaries’ actual and future movements: Mrs Judd in very poor health. 3) Savage punishment of a Chinese thief by the military prompts Constance to comment on the ugly reality of the Chinese nature. 4) Story of Pearl and the broken looking glass.
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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Douthwaite's letters to her family, 1887-1896, with additional letters from her husband Arthur Douithwaite MD', unpublished, 2009 [copy available in Special Collections Reading Room]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