Place: Sycamore Cottage [Derbyshire, England]
From: Anne Alsop and Catherine Wasse
To: The Rev’ J. Smithurst / Church Missionary House, Fleet Street, London
Delivery: Forwarded by the Church Missionary Society to Red River Settlement via Hudson’s Bay Company supply ship and canoe brigade, and thence by courier to the Indian Settlement at Netley Creek
Details: 4pp (partly cross-written) + integral address face
Notes: Composite letter from friend and her aunt on family matters. Mentions annual visit of Mr. Nightingale (father of Florence Nightingale – John Smithurst’s first cousin) with details on their losses owing to a bank failure.
Alsop, Anne