Letter from Laura Riddell, in Mandalay, Upper Burma, to her daughter Laura [in Leipzig, Germany]

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Performance in a concert; Christmas presents; violin; uncertainty over her passage to India; health worries; conduct during voyage; singing; Miss Phillips; Signor Garnia; Mr. Shakespeare; dancing lessons with Mrs Birch; Mrs Irvine; George’s misdemeanour; departure from Leipzig; her husband’s poor health; Lady Crosthwaite’s ‘at Home’; drive with Mrs Perry; gathering of the Norfolk Regiment at the Mess

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