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Subjects: 1) Afternoon prayer meetings with missionaries from Temple Hill. Frances Willard and the temperance movement in the States. 2) Mr Mudditt, a missionary with the Plymouth Brethren, shares a service with other missionaries of which his colleagues disapproved. Constance likens them to “Spiritual Ishmaelites”!! 3) Miss Selby, another sick missionary. 4) English ship aground with resultant drunken and disorderly behaviour of the crew. 5) Missionaries provide food for desperate poor of Shihtao. 6) Winter weather returns, and Pearl “bays for the moon”.
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English
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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Douthwaite's letters to her family, 1887-1896, with additional letters from her husband Arthur Douithwaite MD', unpublished, 2009 [copy available in Special Collections Reading Room] |
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