Letter from Laura Riddell, Elphinstone Hotel, Madras [Chennai], India, to her son Henry [in Leipzig, Germany]

Reference No:
U DRI/88
Dates:
14 Jun [1887]
Description:
Journey from Bombay [Mumbai]; possible separation from her husband; financial matters; Major Kennedy; hotel service; mosquitoes; drive along the sea front; St. Leonard’s; first arrival in India twenty years previously; family; 2 ½ years until family reunion; recollections of Madras; Lord and Lady Napier and Ettrick; Fred Hope and Aunt Annie; steamer journey to Rangoon; care at Mrs Irvine’s; Clarence; will; Dr Ord; photographs
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Repository:
Hull University Archives
Collection:
Correspondence of the Riddell Family