Letter from Laura Riddell, Pallaveram near Madras [Chennai], India, to her daughter Laura [in West Kensington, England]

Reference No:
U DRI/151
Dates:
14 Jan 1890
Description:
Accommodation needs in England; her and her husband’s ill health; application for leave for the Shevaroy Hills; anxieties over return to England; pension entitlements; dressmaker in Madras; lack of friends; influenza epidemic; dislike of Mr Gladstone; George’s education and shabby appearance; Mr Brackenbury’s neglect; Henry’s application for Sandhurst if he should fail his Indian Civil Service examinations; the army as a poor and risky profession; Auntie; clothing
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Repository:
Hull University Archives
Collection:
Correspondence of the Riddell Family