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

Identifier: 0263-s1-b1-fe   (https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/35217)

Description: A handwritten letter from Venetia Cox in Hankou, China, to her mother B. T. Cox in Winterville, North Carolina. Venetia discusses learning to read Chinese and struggling with the characters; a recent church union conference with Bishop Roots and Dr. Saunders; troubles with laundry and clothing; and briefly mentions the commonality of dysentery among Westerners in the area. A native of Winterville, Venetia Cox was an Episcopal missionary music teacher in mainland China between 1917 and 1950.