BIB_ID
429179
Accession number
MA 14286.64
Creator
Carmichael-Smyth, Anne, 1792-1864, sender.
Display Date
Kolkata, India, 1820 February 3.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 30.7 x 19.1 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark: Mrs. Butler / Nusseerabad / 3d.
Place of writing is ascertained from the fact that Anne and Henry Carmichael-Smyth left India by ship on February 20, 1820. Calcutta (now Kolkata) was the major port in eastern India. It could be reached by river from their former residence in Agra. See Gordon N. Ray, Thackeray: The Uses of Adversity, 1811-1846 (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1955), 74.
Forms part of a collection (MA 14286.1-66) of letters written by Maria Knox to her mother, Mrs. Harriet Butler.
Place of writing is ascertained from the fact that Anne and Henry Carmichael-Smyth left India by ship on February 20, 1820. Calcutta (now Kolkata) was the major port in eastern India. It could be reached by river from their former residence in Agra. See Gordon N. Ray, Thackeray: The Uses of Adversity, 1811-1846 (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1955), 74.
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
Begins with a partial copy of Mrs. Butler's affidavit for compensation following her husband's death. Anne's letter follows. Commenting on the affidavit and the compensation. Writing that "according to my calculations you will have near 500 £ a year." Commenting on her family's imminent departure for England and on some difficulties in sending money to England for William Makepeace Thackeray's schooling. Relating a story about him.
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