BIB_ID
428871
Accession number
MA 14286.57
Creator
Knox, Maria, 1795-1822, sender.
Display Date
Nasirabad, India, 1821 November 18.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 22.7 x 18.5 cm
Notes
Address page: Mrs. Colonel Butler / Care of Misses Cruttenden & Co. [crossed out] / Calcutta [crossed out] / Berhampore / 18th Novr.
Ague was a term for the symptoms of a fever. It often referred to malaria.
Forms part of a collection (MA 14286.1-66) of letters written by Maria Knox to her mother, Mrs. Harriet Butler.
Ague was a term for the symptoms of a fever. It often referred to malaria.
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 Captain Baddeley is visiting and that Anne's husband Henry's father, Dr. James Carmichael-Smyth, has died. Reporting that she is resting for her health, "as it was about this time last year I was unfortunate." Recalling a "melancholy letter from poor Mrs. Hamilton" which stated that her two children have died, "a Boy of twelve months after three days illness, and that Sweet Child Mary from a sore throat." Reporting that "Mrs. Burns died of an ague & fever caught after her confinement." Commenting that "Welchman is getting quite fat between happiness and good food!"
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