My dear Archbishop,
November 26th 1920.
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I do not think I can do bettor than
enclose a copy of a Hinute recently made for me in the
office on a similar memorandum distributed by Mrs.
Haslewood.
The essential point about the situation
somia to me to be that you are dealing not with any
legal status, but with the family customs of the Chinese. ·
There is no such thing as slavery in Hong Kong in the
sense that one person can acquire any rights over another
by an act of purchase: these domestics are in the eye
On the
of the law perfectly free and in onse any i1l usage
comes to light can be, and indeed are, at once removed
from thefamily with which they are living and are placed
in an Institution, or with another family.
other land you have the univoreal and immemorial custom
of China that the ordinary domestic work of the house
is done either by the deuchtors of the house between
the ages of ten or twelve and marringe, or,falling a
sufficiency of daughters, by these so-called adopted
daughters. I had a very full talk the other day with
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