Letter from Maria Knox, Nasirabad, India, to Mrs. Harriet Butler, 1819 November 2 : autograph manuscript signed.

Concerning a dinner party that she, Alexander, and Charlotte attended at the home of Major Kennedy and his wife. Noting that they rode in the carriage (mentioned in the letter of 11 September), reporting that at the party she learned that a Mrs. William Ross had committed suicide with laudanum following “flirtations”, and recounting a conversation between Mrs. Kennedy, Mrs. Fagan, Charlotte, and herself about the cause of the suicide, and whether it was caused by excessive “feeling” or “sentiment.” Commenting that she and Charlotte “were horrified & astonished at Mrs. Fagan vindicating the dreadful deed by ascribing it to excess of feeling” and that she herself argued that, “this is another instance of how fatal flirtation can be.” Describing the treatment of a Dr. Reddis by a Dr. Marwell (“He was bled till be fainted which he told the Colonel he was aware was necessary.”).