BIB_ID
429175
Accession number
MA 14286.63
Creator
Graham, Harriet, 1790-1820, sender.
Display Date
Gazipur, Bangladesh, 1816 November 11.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 22.5 x 18.5 cm
Notes
Address page with postmark and remains of seal: Mrs. Butler / Cawnpore / Novbr 11th
Cawnpore refers to the city of Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Heading reads "Gazipore Novbr 11." Gazipur was then part of the Bengal Presidency, British India. It is now part of Bangladesh.
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.
Heading reads "Gazipore Novbr 11." Gazipur was then part of the Bengal Presidency, British India. It is now part of Bangladesh.
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
Complaining that an insect has stung her eye, "so violently that it has swollen one side of my face and almost closed one." Reporting that she and her family have arrived in Gazipur, and intend to continue their travels soon and that Anne and her children are well, except that her daughter Mary is teething.
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