Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Family Tree -- Pen Portraits: Family and Principal Characters -- List of Maps and Letters -- Introduction: An Epistolary Relationship -- Part I: Intimate Empire -- 1. Evangelical Families -- 2. Letter-writing and the British World -- Part II: The Letters -- 3. Marriage, 1846-1847 -- 4. Early Motherhood, 1847-1851 -- 5. To Shanghai and Back, August 1851-July 1852 -- 6. Homeward Bound, 1852 -- 7. England, 1852-1855 -- 8. Return to Hong Kong, 1855-1856 and 9. At Home in Siam, 1856 -- 10. Sorrow and Bereavement, 1856 -- Part III: At Home in the Empire -- 11. Re-building Her Life -- 12. Bridging the Distance of Empire -- Timeline, 1816-1886 -- Notes -- Bibliography