Title: Letter from Venetia Cox to B. T. Cox

Identifier: 0263-s1-b1-fd   (https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/35204)

Description: A handwritten letter from Venetia Cox at the Union Language School in Peking [Beijing], China, to her mother, B. T. Cox, in Winterville, North Carolina. She writes about suffering from the dust storms, an ongoing series of lectures alternating at the American and English Legations, and the disparity in pay between the American and British missionaries. She comments particularly on the perceived wealth of America and the American tendency to care more about outward appearances. A native of Winterville, Venetia Cox was an Episcopal missionary music teacher in mainland China between 1917 and 1950.