Letter from Katharine M Craster, 8/1 Russell Street, Calcutta [India], to her mother Juliana Broadwood, about the Seton Karrs; mentions their ‘bad books’ eg JJ Rousseau and Voltaire and others; describes move to Howrah to their own house; her husband Edmund’s character, housekeeping; no boat exists between Howrah and Calcutta, crossing is by steamer of ‘dingy’ [sic, dinghy] or ‘greenboat’, and that to use small boats you are carried on a small barrow across the mud; mentions Peere’s engagement. With envelope.
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Letter from Katharine M Craster, 8/1 Russell Street, Calcutta [India], to her mother Juliana Broadwood, about the Seton Karrs; mentions their ‘bad books’ eg JJ Rousseau and Voltaire and others; describes move to Howrah to their own house; her husband Edmund’s character, housekeeping; no boat exists between Howrah and Calcutta, crossing is by steamer of ‘dingy’ [sic, dinghy] or ‘greenboat’, and that to use small boats you are carried on a small barrow across the mud; mentions Peere’s engagement. With envelope.
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A letter from Katharine M Craster to her mother Juliana Broadwood dated 22 December 1862.
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About the Seton Karrs; mentions their ‘bad books’ eg JJ Rousseau and Voltaire and others; describes move to Howrah to their own house; her husband Edmund’s character, housekeeping; no boat exists between Howrah and Calcutta, crossing is by steamer of ‘dingy’ [sic, dinghy] or ‘greenboat’, and that to use small boats you are carried on a small barrow across the mud; mentions Peere’s engagement. With envelope.
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Part of the estate and family papers of the Broadwood family of Lyne House, Capel, and London.
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The Broadwood archives were found at Lyne House, Capel, after the death of Captain Evelyn Broadwood in 1975. They were deposited by the Braodwood Trust in 1977, and subsequently donated.
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