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Calcutta.—Was delighted to hear of his uncle Edwin’s baronetcy. Has decided to go to Sahdol to view the eclipse. Refers to his activities at Calcutta.
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Calcutta
c/o Thos Cook & Son
Bombay
Jany 12 98
My dear Tante
It was ripping news to hear of Uncle Edwin’s getting his baronetcy. I was tremendously delighted.
Ever so many thanks for all your good wishes for Xmas, Birthday & New Year. Letters get a good bit delayed in coming to me but if you send them to Cook’s at Bombay I shall get them very much sooner.
I have only just settled to go to Sahdol for the eclipse; it is a small place somewhere near Jubbulpore; if you have a map of India showing the railways you will find it on the line from Katni to Bilaspore. Campbell is going there with the Astronomer from Madras; {1} & I fancy Christie & Dr Common are to be there also. But by the time you have got this letter, the eclipse will be a thing of the past, and you will know how far the observations of it have been successful.
I have been generally “sloping” round in Calcutta. Last week I went to the State Ball, yesterday I went to an evening party at Government House, & to-morrow I am going to see the ceremony of Investiture; the natives are very resplendent in their jewels, & their costumes are interesting. I have also been to the Botanical Gardens where the trees are very fine; one Banyon tree has a circumference of 926 feet at its crown! You know it puts down fresh trunks in different places.
One way and another I have a fair number of friends here & I go out to dine with them some evenings.
I have been to see Mozoomdar whom you may possibly remember as a leader of the Bramah Somaj; & on Sunday afternoon I am going to meet a number of their people and talk a bit about Cambridge. Then on Monday I leave for Sahdol, & after the eclipse go back for a few days to Mozuffapore, then to Darjiling to see Mt Everest, then Benares, Delhi, Agra & down to South Canara, back to Madras, & so to Colombo some time in April & from there to Australia!
This afternoon I am going “slumming” with a member of the Oxford Mission.
With love to all & kisses to Dora
Ever your affte Neffe
Fredk W Lawrence
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{1} Charles Michie Smith.
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- Lawrence, Edith Jane Durning- (1844-1929), wife of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence (Subject)
- Lawrence, Sir Edwin Durning- (1837-1914), 1st Baronet, politician and writer (Subject)
- Mozoomdar, Protap Chunder (1840-1905), leader of the Bramo Samaj (Subject)
- Bramo Samaj (Subject)
- Christie, Sir William Henry Mahoney (1845-1922), knight, astronomer (Subject)
- Common, Andrew Ainslie (1841-1903), astronomer and astronomical photographer (Subject)
- Smith, Charles Michie (1854-1922), astronomer (Subject)
- Campbell, Sir Archibald Young Gipps (1872-1957), knight, civil servant in India (Subject)
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This description was created by A. C. Green in 2020.