BIB_ID
428520
Accession number
MA 14286.32
Creator
Knox, Maria, 1795-1822, sender.
Display Date
Nasirabad, India, 1821 May 23.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 25.4 x 20 cm
Notes
Address panel: Mrs. Colonel Butler / Barrackpore / Nusserabad / 23d May 1821.
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
Reporting that "a vile Scorpion stung me on Sunday and till today I have scarcely had any use of my right hand. The pain was so great for nearly six hours I was very nearly fainting." Writing about Charlotte and her fiancé (Mr. Charles Walter Welchman). Reporting some millitary appointments Alexander was involved in. Retelling the story of a Robert Skinner (the younger brother of noted army officer James Skinner, 1778-1841), who "destroyed himself, his Wife & three Slave Girls."
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