Letter, Chefoo

Subjects: 1) Constance discusses what she might take home with her. 2) Constance confesses that at first she wished her pregnancy might end in miscarriage, but now she feels love beginning to grow. 3) A child’s teething schedule. 4) Cholera carried off eight from the missionary community in Wun-chau...

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Date(s) of creation: October 27, 1895
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Summary: Subjects: 1) Constance discusses what she might take home with her. 2) Constance confesses that at first she wished her pregnancy might end in miscarriage, but now she feels love beginning to grow. 3) A child’s teething schedule. 4) Cholera carried off eight from the missionary community in Wun-chau in four days, and even Constance almost seems to question the way God deals with his children.
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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Douthwaite's letters to her family, 1887-1896, with additional letters from her husband Arthur Douithwaite MD', unpublished, 2009 [copy available in Special Collections Reading Room]
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