BIB_ID
428244
Accession number
MA 14286.7
Creator
Knox, Maria, 1795-1822, sender.
Display Date
Nasirabad, India, 1820 October 8.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.4 x 10.7 cm and 18.6 x 22.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal: Mrs. Butler / Biana or / Neebhera / M.K. / Sorote 8th / Oct.
Futtypore Sicri refers to the town of Fatehpur Sikra, Agra District, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Sorote refers to the town of Suroth, Karauli District, Rajasthan, India.
Neebhera refers to the village of Nibhera, Bharatpur District, Rajasthan, India.
Biana refers to the town of Bayana, Bharatpur District, Rajasthan, India.
Forms part of a collection (MA 14286.1-66) of letters written by Maria Knox to her mother, Mrs. Harriet Butler.
Futtypore Sicri refers to the town of Fatehpur Sikra, Agra District, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Sorote refers to the town of Suroth, Karauli District, Rajasthan, India.
Neebhera refers to the village of Nibhera, Bharatpur District, Rajasthan, India.
Biana refers to the town of Bayana, Bharatpur District, Rajasthan, India.
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
Reporting that "A Sepoy of the 7th informed me last night he had left you at Futtypore Sicri"; expecting to meet up with her mother "tomorrow or the next day at the latest" and promising to send a horseman to meet her at Nibhera (called Neebhera) or Bayana (called Biana). Advising her mother to "take more care of yourself than the Man tells me you are doing."
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