BIB_ID
428495
Accession number
MA 14286.29
Creator
Knox, Maria, 1795-1822, sender.
Display Date
Nasirabad, India, 1821 April 29-April 30.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 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 / 29th 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
Writing that she has "sent you our dear Nanny's pack on Monday". Reporting that Mrs. Roberts (whose pregnancy is mentioned in an earlier letter) "experiences all the little illnesses attendant on her situation cannot be left alone," that "Charlotte from getting the nettle rash has had terrible head aches" but has recovered, and that she herself is in good health. The letter cuts off and resumes the next day, "for yesterday Mrs. Roberts fainted and today requires constant attention." Relaying that the Kennedys plan on going to Calcutta in the summer and have offered to take Mrs. Butler back with them when they return. Writing that "the blow that robbed us of one of the dearest on earth has rendered England no place for you," (a presumed reference to the death of Maria's sister, Harriet Graham).
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