Letter, Chefoo

Subjects: 1) Delays in the transit of parcels. 2) Pearl’s attachment to her rubber dolls. 3) Theft prevails because unpaid officials are corrupt. 4) Conversion of sons leaves parents without heirs to offer customary prayers for their memory when they are dead.


Date(s) of creation: March 4, 1894
Level: Item
Format: Archive           

Summary: Subjects: 1) Delays in the transit of parcels. 2) Pearl’s attachment to her rubber dolls. 3) Theft prevails because unpaid officials are corrupt. 4) Conversion of sons leaves parents without heirs to offer customary prayers for their memory when they are dead.
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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Douthwaite's letters to her family, 1887-1896, with additional letters from her husband Arthur Douithwaite MD', unpublished, 2009 [copy available in Special Collections Reading Room]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