Letter, Chefoo

Subjects: 1) News of friends of the family. 2) Intense heat is a trial and very heavy rain floods Chefoo and carries earth down to discolour the sea. 3) Pearl has found a replacement for her lost doll in a local shop. 4) Arthur is up much of the night attending to a sick child. Constance fears he ma...

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Date(s) of creation: August 12, 1894
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Summary: Subjects: 1) News of friends of the family. 2) Intense heat is a trial and very heavy rain floods Chefoo and carries earth down to discolour the sea. 3) Pearl has found a replacement for her lost doll in a local shop. 4) Arthur is up much of the night attending to a sick child. Constance fears he may break down from overwork. 5) Isabel is flourishing.
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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Douthwaite's letters to her family, 1887-1896, with additional letters from her husband Arthur Douithwaite MD', unpublished, 2009 [copy available in Special Collections Reading Room]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