BIB_ID
428494
Accession number
MA 14286.28
Creator
Knox, Maria, 1795-1822, sender.
Display Date
Nasirabad, India, 1821 April 23.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 25.3 x 20.2 cm
Notes
Address panel with remains of seal: Mrs. Colonel. Butler / Care of G. Cruttenden Esq. [crossed out] / Calcutta [crossed out] / Barrackpore / 23rd April.
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
Expressing her excitement that her mother has received a letter from Anne in England, which she is waiting for her to forward. Reporting that Alexander has received a raise of 300 rupees per month. Regretting "the decline of our dear Grandmother" (presumably a reference to her paternal grandmother, Mrs. Anne Becher).
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