BIB_ID
428296
Accession number
MA 14286.19
Creator
Knox, Maria, 1795-1822, sender.
Display Date
Nasirabad, India, 1821 January 28.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 31.9 x 20.2 cm
Notes
Address panel with remains of seal: Mrs. Butler / Care of Lieut Colonel Wood / Engineers / Fort William [crossed out] / Barkpre [abbreviation for Barrackpore] / 30th Jany
Forms part of a collection (MA 14286.1-66) of letters written by Maria Knox to her mother, Mrs. Harriet 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
Writing that her mother "must be in Calcutta now", and that "if Captain Lee has not sailed and you find affairs wear a tolerable aspect I had almost rather you should join dear Harry," (her sister Harriet). Relating a pleasant visit from Colonel Paton, a friend of Alexander and her mother. Commenting on the arrival of their new grand piano and the quality of its sound. Reporting various local and personal news. Recalling a story Colonel Paton told about a George Fagan (not the Fagan who had previously offended Alexander), that he suffered from "deprivation of his senses," and that the illness "was sufficiently violent as to render confinement necessary, & that it was hereditary."
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