BIB_ID
428314
Accession number
MA 14286.22
Creator
Knox, Maria, 1795-1822, sender.
Display Date
Nasirabad, India, 1821 February 24.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (5 pages) ; 25.3 x 20.1 cm
Notes
Address panel with remains of seal: Mrs. Butler / Care of Lieut Colonel Wood / Engineers / Fort William / 24th Feb.y
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
Wishing that her mother could have seen Charlotte's sister in Calcutta. Commenting on her mother's attempts to get compensation following the death of her husband (Edward William Butler). Writing about her new piano and some music she received from Charles Smyth. Complaining that Mrs. Halliday is ignoring Charlotte. Writing of a party she is planning and reporting that "that horrid woman Mrs. Birch has become Mrs. C. Boswell. it can't be legal its impossible."
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