BIB_ID
428301
Accession number
MA 14286.18
Creator
Knox, Maria, 1795-1822, sender.
Display Date
Nasirabad, India, 1821 January 20.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 25.2 x 20.1 cm
Notes
Address panel with remains of seal: Mrs. Butler / Barrackpore [prior address is scratched out] / 20th 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
Reporting that she has suffered from headaches for the past two days that prevented her from writing. Commenting on her mother's journey to Calcutta, and her decision of whether to sail from there to England. Reporting the arrival of Captain Roberts and commenting on his character, writing that "one has heard so much of this Captain Roberts and what he was to do and make others do and the numerous things he was to have that the original dwindles into a nonentity." Writing that "the foolish Fagans are making themselves more & more disliked." Commenting on some issues concerning Charlotte and Mr. Halliday.
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