| Description | He has just returned to the station and describes his disgust at his experience of dealing with feuding indigo planters. Falsehood is the creed of many old residents, he has concluded. He gives an extended account of the row between two brother planters named Lyon and the estate's head man Wight, and the crimes committed by the armed bands employed by both sides. Wight has now impounded the cakes of indigo, which are required by the owners in Calcutta [Kolkata]. Craster sent William to investigate after offices were plundered and Wight requested protection. He describes the locality, the lack of cooperation from the Darojah and opposition from the police in general. Everyone professed ignorance of the office attacks and William outlines his efforts to gain information and his next steps in the matter. He acknowledges letters and gives thanks for the exhibition photographs, beautiful in accuracy and artistic effect. He enquires about the identity of a Mr Turner, who, at the first photographic exhibition at St John's Street, exhibited an image of Hawkhurst Church entitled 'a photographic truth'. He would like a copy of it, if a print exists, and asks that the glass dishes are carefully packed and sent overland. Gray is taking to collodion and they may take some portraits soon. |