Letter from Laura Riddell, Pallaveram near Madras, India, to her daughter Laura [in West Kensington, England]

Scope and Content

Forwarding of letters; Alec Crombie’s future prospects; need to ensure financial security; Magazine of Music; Mr Swete and his fiancé; request for photograph of Alec; refusal to allow Laura to return to Leipzig; Mrs Irvine; Laura’s supposedly dull lifestyle; the Crombie aunts; Laura’s true feelings for Alec; request for a new cloak; return to England; possibility of Henry entering the Indian Civil Service

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