BIB_ID
428793
Accession number
MA 14286.53
Creator
Knox, Maria, 1795-1822, sender.
Display Date
Nasirabad, India, 1821 November 7.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 25.7 x 20.4 cm
Notes
Address page: Mrs. Colonel Butler / Care of Messrs Cruttenden & Co. [crossed out] / Calcutta [crossed out] / Barrackpore / 7th Novr.
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
Expressing her distress at her mother's intention to return to England without them a few months after the baby arrives. Writing that "we shall go home as soon as we can." Relating local news and military activity. Recalling a visit from Charles Smyth, a relative of Anne's husband Henry and reporting that "Charlotte is quite herself again." Noting that she nearly fired a servant "as she has drank all my Gin!!"
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