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

Identifier: 0263-s1-b1-fd   (https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/35206)

Description: A handwritten letter from Venetia Cox in the Western Hills of Peking [Beijing], China, to her mother, B. T. Cox, in Winterville, North Carolina. She describes the terracing of the Western Hills and writes about her short vacation exploring the hills. She discusses her Chinese language classes and describes the construction of her house in Beijing. She also briefly mentions the troubles China is experiencing with politics, plague, and flooding. A native of Winterville, Venetia Cox was an Episcopal missionary music teacher in mainland China between 1917 and 1950.