BIB_ID
428524
Accession number
MA 14286.33
Creator
Knox, Maria, 1795-1822, sender.
Display Date
Nasirabad, India, 1821 May 29.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (5 pages) ; 25.5 x 20.3 cm
Notes
Address page: Mrs. Colonel Butler / Barrackpore / 29th May.
A lac or lakh is a traditional Indian name for 100,000 of something, very often used in reference to money.
Forms part of a collection (MA 14286.1-66) of letters written by Maria Knox to her mother, Mrs. Harriet Butler.
A lac or lakh is a traditional Indian name for 100,000 of something, very often used in reference to money.
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 Charlotte's fiance (Mr. Charles Walter Welchman) is still ill and commenting on their upcoming marriage. Writing more about the Kennedys going to Calcutta (mentioned in the previous letter). Reporting the arrival of a Captain Webb, and commenting that he "made himself very conspicuous in his passage out with Miss Louisa Ricketts whose marriage to a Mr. Altonbrand you may have seen." Reporting that a Mr. Ravenscroft is suspected of embezzling "three lacs of rupees which are missing from the Company Treasury to his own use." Recalling an unpleasant meal with the Fagans.
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