BIB_ID
429060
Accession number
MA 14286.62
Creator
Knox, Maria, 1795-1822, sender.
Display Date
Daang, India, 1822 February 17.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 22.6 x 18.1 cm
Notes
Address panel: Mrs. Colonel Butler / To be left at the Post Office / Cawnpore / February 17th / 1822.
Cawnpore refers to the city of Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Monghyr refers to the city of Munger, Bihar, India.
Signed "Camp Dang / 30 M. from Nusseerabad." This refers to the village of Daang, Rajasthan, India.
Forms part of a collection (MA 14286.1-66) of letters written by Maria Knox to her mother, Mrs. Harriet Butler.
Cawnpore refers to the city of Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Monghyr refers to the city of Munger, Bihar, India.
Signed "Camp Dang / 30 M. from Nusseerabad." This refers to the village of Daang, Rajasthan, India.
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 she has left Nasirabad on doctor's orders and that she is on her way to Calcutta with Charlotte and Mr. Welchman to go to sea for her health. Writing that she has had to leave Alexander behind. Writing that she "was obliged to undergo the horrid operation of letting him [Mr. Welchman] examine me and it was in consequence of that he became so urgent for my immediate departure." Reporting that she travelled nine miles that day. Commenting on her mother's plans to move to Mongyhr. Hoping for a letter from Anne in England.
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