Letter, Chefoo

Scope and Content

Subjects: 1) With the opening of the Tientsin river the steamers from Shanghai race to arrive there first. 2) Constance gets on well with Mrs Murray and the latter with Pearl. 3) More about Pearl who plays games with her father. 4) Constance remembers her childhood pleasures; she is troubled by neuralgia.

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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Douthwaite's letters to her family, 1887-1896, with additional letters from her husband Arthur Douithwaite MD', unpublished, 2009 [copy available in Special Collections Reading Room]

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