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Elaborate frame suggesting canes and bindweed drawn around photograph in pen and ink. Six women are photographed outside the house, probably Charlotte Mayor and five of her unmarried daughters.

Voyage to Cape Town, visit to Groenekloof: Cape Town

Frame drawn around photograph in Brown ink links it to the other images on the page: a photographic reproduction of a portrait of Robert Mayor on the left, a pen and ink sketch of Acton Church drawn directly on the page, above, and a pen and ink sketch of a building at Baddegama drawn directly on the page, below.

Frame drawn around photograph in red ink links it to the other images on the page: a photographic reproduction of a portrait of Elizabeth Bickersteth on the left, a watercolour sketch of Kirkby Lonsdale drawn directly on the page, above, and a pen and ink sketch of Deansbiggin drawn directly on the page, below.

Preparation and duties before leaving for Ceylon, to be married in early September by John Bickersteth: Liverpool

Building of new school, birth of Robert Bickersteth Mayor who has a native wet-nurse, praise of Charlotte, have been joined by the Wards owing to Benjamin Ward's illness, girl's school teaches Singhalese, caste system, hope of resurrection versus reincarnation, local priests, Sarah's marriage, report of a shipwreck: Point de Galle