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
Level: Item
Format: Archive           

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scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
callnumber MS 381056/05/05
callnumber_txt MS 381056/05/05
callnumber-sort MS 381056/05/05
prefix_number 05
title Letter, Chefoo
scb_date_creation October 27, 1895
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description 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.
scb_access_status Restrictions apply
scb_conditions_gov_access Users should consult transcript of item in first instance. Original item can only be consulted with written agreement of the Archivist. Please apply to special.collections@soas.ac.uk
scb_use_restrictions For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance
language English
language_search English
scb_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Douthwaite's letters to her family, 1887-1896, with additional letters from her husband Arthur Douithwaite MD', unpublished, 2009 [copy available in Special Collections Reading Room]
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