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Letter from Maria Knox, Nasirabad, India, to Mrs. Harriet Butler, 1820 February 20 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
428229
Accession number
MA 14286.6
Creator
Knox, Maria, 1795-1822, sender.
Display Date
Nasirabad, India, 1820 February 20.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 20.3 x 12.7 cm
Notes
Address page: Mrs. Butler
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
Wondering whether the letter will reach Mrs. Butler before she sails for England, lamenting that "in losing you I lose the only one in this country who loves me," and that "nothing but their [i.e., Alexander's and Charlotte's] affection would console me." Recalling a dance party she attended with Charlotte.