Autograph letter signed with initials : E[ast] I[ndia] Board [London], to his sisters Hannah and Margaret, 1832 June 21.

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Autograph letter signed with initials : E[ast] I[ndia] Board [London], to his sisters Hannah and Margaret, 1832 June 21.

Telling them he learned from Nancy that they are "seeing sights ... and have no time to write at length"; asking them to describe their "journey by steam"; alluding to Frances Trollope's The Domestic Manners of the Americans, Fanny Burney's Evelina, and Samuel Richardson's Clarissa; requesting them to "above all tell [him] tales of each other"; mentioning the business of Parliament; noting that he is stuck in London until September.

1 item (6 p., with address) ; 23.2 cm

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