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

Identifier: 0263-s1-b1-fd   (https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/35213)

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. Venetia writes of sewing herself a pongee coat, her battle with malaria and dysentery, and a silk scroll she received as a gift from her students. She also requests a raincoat and briefly mentions the flooding in Hunan and Canton [Guangzhou]. A native of Winterville, Venetia Cox was an Episcopal missionary music teacher in mainland China between 1917 and 1950.