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

Identifier: 0263-s1-b1-fd   (https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/35207)

Description: A handwritten letter from Venetia Cox at the Anglican Mission's Chung Te School in Peking [Beijing], China, to her mother, B. T. Cox, in Winterville, North Carolina. She writes about moving her room to create a guest bedroom, the Holy Week and Easter decorations and services at the church, her plans for studying over the summer, her living situation when she moves to Hankou, and her revaccination for smallpox. She briefly describes her impressions of Dr. Catherine Travis (1873-1948). A native of Winterville, Venetia Cox was an Episcopal missionary music teacher in mainland China between 1917 and 1950.