Letter, Chefoo

Subjects: 1) Taking the children for a paddle; Pearl timid, Isabel fearless. 2) End of term celebrations at the girls’ school. 3) Sudden death of a visitor from cholera. 4) A moving sermon from Mr. Hunter. 5) Another death from cholera: this time Duncan MacFarlane, aged five!!


Date(s) of creation: August 4, 1895
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Summary: Subjects: 1) Taking the children for a paddle; Pearl timid, Isabel fearless. 2) End of term celebrations at the girls’ school. 3) Sudden death of a visitor from cholera. 4) A moving sermon from Mr. Hunter. 5) Another death from cholera: this time Duncan MacFarlane, aged five!!
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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Douthwaite's letters to her family, 1887-1896, with additional letters from her husband Arthur Douithwaite MD', unpublished, 2009 [copy available in Special Collections Reading Room]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