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LevelItem
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)KWH/Q/937
TitleLetter from William Ritchie, Calcutta, [India] to [Truett]
Extent1 item
Date1819
DescriptionWrites of his life and work in Calcutta, referring to the deaths of relatives and acquaintances, the firm of Macintyre & Co of Calcutta, his avoidance of the sun, requirements for servants, views about Calcutta,
6 February 1819

[William Ritchie, merchant, died aged 23 on 5 June 1819 in Calcutta and was buried in South Park Street burial ground, with a monument erected by friends and partners Donald Macintyre and John Anderson: according to the 'Bengal Obituary' (by J. Thomas, Baptist Mission Press, Holmes and Co., Calcutta, India, 1848)]
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