BIB_ID
428418
Accession number
MA 14286.23
Creator
Knox, Maria, 1795-1822, sender.
Display Date
Nasirabad, India, 1821 March 9.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (5 pages) ; 25.3 x 20 cm
Notes
Address page with remains of seal: Mrs. Colonel. Butler / Care of G. Cruttenden Esq. [scratched out] / Calcutta [scratched out] / Mannickpore / 9th March.
The dawk or dak was a mail courier service in India.
Calomel is mercury (I) chloride. It was used as a purgative in nineteenth-century medicine.
Forms part of a collection (MA 14286.1-66) of letters written by Maria Knox to her mother, Mrs. Harriet Butler.
The dawk or dak was a mail courier service in India.
Calomel is mercury (I) chloride. It was used as a purgative in nineteenth-century medicine.
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
Expressing anger that some of her prior letters to her mother had not been delivered. Writing that she is “so provoked by that wretch of a dawk man I would beat him.” Recalling a letter Charlotte received from her sister which contained an account of a duel. Reporting a conflict between the surgeon Mr. (Alexander) Halliday and the hospital in which he works. Halliday objected to the over-use of calomel on patients, which his superiors Russell and Jameson took as an attack on their leadership. Reporting that a Committee of Inquiry was formed to punish him, which removed him “from the list of Presidency Surgeons.” Complaining that the government refuses to intervene on his behalf. Commenting on a dream her mother related in a recent letter.
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