BIB_ID
428425
Accession number
MA 14286.25
Creator
Knox, Maria, 1795-1822, sender.
Display Date
Nasirabad, India, 1821 April 8.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (5 pages) ; 25.3 x 20.2 cm
Notes
Address page with remains of seal: Mrs. Colonel. Butler / Care of G. Cruttenden Esq. [crossed out] / Calcutta [crossed out] / Barrackpore / April 8th.
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
Responding to her mother's concerns that Maria's dancing at parties will harm her health and claiming that "I have never enjoyed my health so uninterrupted for years. Writing she is "quite glad you will have little Charley to occupy your attention," and commenting on how to pay for his schooling. Writing that she and Alexander have sent orders for supplies for her. Reporting a controversy between "Henry's brother William" and a Dr. Gilchrist back in England, having to do with Dr. Gilchrist's reformist political views.
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