BIB_ID
428575
Accession number
MA 14286.38
Creator
Knox, Maria, 1795-1822, sender.
Display Date
Nasirabad, India, 1821 July 5.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (5 pages) ; 25.5 x 20.2 cm
Notes
Address page with seal: Mrs. Colonel Butler / Barrackpore / [from] Nusserabad / 5th July 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
Writing that she believes she is pregnant, since "hitherto I have been very regular and now six weeks have passed." Expressing concern for what this will do to her health and asking her mother "How soon after matters have stopped do you begin to reckon? for I'm just as ignorant as it is possible to be." Commenting that "this is our own dear Billy Boys [William Makepeace Thackeray's] tenth birthday." Writing that Alexander has had a falling out with Mr. Roberts and that it was Mr. Roberts who spread false rumors about an affair between Captain Webb and Roberts' own sister Louisa Ricketts. Reporting that Mr. Donelly of Dillir has been arrested for the murder of "a Tailor belonging to the Bazar." The victim "went for the second or third time to demand some money due to him" and Mr. Donelly "took his sword from the rack where it was handing and run him through the body." Reporting that the Paton family has reconciled.
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