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Letter from Maria Knox, Nasirabad, India, to Mrs. Harriet Butler, 1819 August 17 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
427539
Accession number
MA 14286.1
Creator
Knox, Maria, 1795-1822, sender.
Display Date
Nasirabad, India, 1819 August 17.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 25.1 x 20.2 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal: Mrs. Butler / Agra / 17th.
Forms part of a collection (MA 14286.1-66) of letters written by Maria Knox to her mother, Mrs. Harriet Butler.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Writing that she is recovering from a bout of illness and that she can barely walk, and will therefore be unable to visit her mother as planned; informing her that her sister Harriet is ill but hopes that her upcoming journey to England will improve her condition; consoling her mother for her "lost happiness" (an allusion to the death of her husband, Lieutenant-Colonel Edward William Butler, on August 1, 1819).