Letter, Chefoo

Subjects: 1) Looking forward to going home. 2) War and rumours of war. Fear of an uprising by Chinese soldiers. Royal Navy to offer protection to the settlement. 3) Start of school Xmas holidays. 4) More news of Pearl. 5) Present of Water Fairy Flowers bulbs sent home to Bristol.


Date(s) of creation: December 2, 1894
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Summary: Subjects: 1) Looking forward to going home. 2) War and rumours of war. Fear of an uprising by Chinese soldiers. Royal Navy to offer protection to the settlement. 3) Start of school Xmas holidays. 4) More news of Pearl. 5) Present of Water Fairy Flowers bulbs sent home to Bristol.
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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Douthwaite's letters to her family, 1887-1896, with additional letters from her husband Arthur Douithwaite MD', unpublished, 2009 [copy available in Special Collections Reading Room]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