Letter, Chefoo

Subjects: 1) A large influx of returning residents fills the compound. 2) Several deaths of missionaries. 3) The new baby to be called Arthur or Isabella when it arrives. 4) Constance helping Arthur in writing answers to questions from the Opium Commission. 5) Examples of Pearl’s mode of speaking.


Date(s) of creation: February 25, 1894
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Summary: Subjects: 1) A large influx of returning residents fills the compound. 2) Several deaths of missionaries. 3) The new baby to be called Arthur or Isabella when it arrives. 4) Constance helping Arthur in writing answers to questions from the Opium Commission. 5) Examples of Pearl’s mode of speaking.
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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Douthwaite's letters to her family, 1887-1896, with additional letters from her husband Arthur Douithwaite MD', unpublished, 2009 [copy available in Special Collections Reading Room]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