Letter, Chefoo

Subjects: 1) Constance’s assessment of her children’s strengths and weaknesses. 2) Constance looks forward to a life of idleness at home, free of all household responsibilities. 3) Isabel is having bad nights again, and Pearl asks God to make her go to sleep. 4) Constance is getting more and more ex...

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Date(s) of creation: December 1, 1895
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Summary: Subjects: 1) Constance’s assessment of her children’s strengths and weaknesses. 2) Constance looks forward to a life of idleness at home, free of all household responsibilities. 3) Isabel is having bad nights again, and Pearl asks God to make her go to sleep. 4) Constance is getting more and more excited at the prospect of soon being back in Bristol.
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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Douthwaite's letters to her family, 1887-1896, with additional letters from her husband Arthur Douithwaite MD', unpublished, 2009 [copy available in Special Collections Reading Room]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