Record

RefNoHSF/2/2/51
LevelItem
TitleLetter from James Wemyss, Dera Doon [Dehradun], to 'My dear Herschel' [John Herschel]
CreatorWemyss; James (fl.1860s); British army officer
Date9 September 1863
DescriptionHe thanks Herschel for the photograph and invites him down to Dehradun. He refers to a Mrs T and Bush, 'a man with some 3 or 4,000 £ a year and who has just returned from England to be so infatuated...'. Wemyss asks Herschel if he saw his daughters at a concert. He wishes that the office was back at Deyrah again and hopes Herschel will be there by 15 October. He hears that Logan was to be married to Miss Thomson yesterday, 'he has acted nobly and as an honest man ought to do'. He criticises the club [billiard] tables and notes a conversation on 'the escapade of naughty Mrs T & B'.
Extent2p.
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
AccessStatusOpen
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