Letter, Chefoo

Subjects: 1) Constance develops full blown hypostatic pneumonia, and slips peacefully away, trusting that she will soon be with Jesus, and see her baby Lily again. 2) Arthur is devastated. 3) Pearl’s reaction to seeing Constance’s body. 4) Constance’s funeral.


Date(s) of creation: March 22, 1896
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Summary: Subjects: 1) Constance develops full blown hypostatic pneumonia, and slips peacefully away, trusting that she will soon be with Jesus, and see her baby Lily again. 2) Arthur is devastated. 3) Pearl’s reaction to seeing Constance’s body. 4) Constance’s funeral.
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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Douthwaite's letters to her family, 1887-1896, with additional letters from her husband Arthur Douithwaite MD', unpublished, 2009 [copy available in Special Collections Reading Room]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