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Subjects: 1) Arthur’s tendency to buy too many new clothes upsets Constance somewhat. 2) The Wilson family arrives in Chefoo. 3) Tales of evangelism being promoted through Western health care. 4) Constance bemoans the ignorance of the Chinese and their obsession with “the affairs of this life”. 5) Pearl gets some sweeties, and learns a new word.
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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Douthwaite's letters to her family, 1887-1896, with additional letters from her husband Arthur Douithwaite MD', unpublished, 2009 [copy available in Special Collections Reading Room] |
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