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Letter from Maria Knox, Nasirabad, India, to Mrs. Harriet Butler, 1821 June 20 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
428569
Accession number
MA 14286.35
Creator
Knox, Maria, 1795-1822, sender.
Display Date
Nasirabad, India, 1821 June 20.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (5 pages) ; 25.5 x 20.3 cm
Notes
Address page with remains of seal: Mrs. Colonel Butler / Barrackpore / 20th June.
Kairabad was a village near Kota, Rajasthan.
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 ambivalence as to whether her mother should go to England to care for Harriet's orphaned daughter Mary or remain in India. Writing that she is "full of doubt and anxiety regarding you." Reporting that Alexander has received a positive letter from his brother in England and "says if he could only get a Regiment he would sell all he has and go, and I'm sure I should gladly do so." Complaining about Anne's husband Henry "allowing the dear Girl to go to Farnham alone at a period when there was so much to apprehend." Stating that "Charlotte will be Mrs. Welchman by the end of the month" and that "Welchman is in boisterous spirits. he dines here every night." Reporting that she heard that Mr. Ravenscroft (the suspected embezzler from a previous letter) "was dying of a fever caught in the Jungle near Kairabad and that Dr. Matthew had been sent off dawk to him."