Letter, Chefoo

Subjects: 1) Mina’s letters from a remote district in India report that she is happy, but rather lonely, as her husband is often away. 2) Two of the Chinese wives of the military commander pay a visit and by their curiosity about everything, expressed in an unfamiliar dialect, leave Constance utterl...

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Date(s) of creation: March 18, 1894
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Summary: Subjects: 1) Mina’s letters from a remote district in India report that she is happy, but rather lonely, as her husband is often away. 2) Two of the Chinese wives of the military commander pay a visit and by their curiosity about everything, expressed in an unfamiliar dialect, leave Constance utterly exhausted.
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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Douthwaite's letters to her family, 1887-1896, with additional letters from her husband Arthur Douithwaite MD', unpublished, 2009 [copy available in Special Collections Reading Room]
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