Letter from Laura Riddell, in Mandalay, Upper Burma, to her daughter Laura [in Leipzig, Germany]

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Her daughter’s unhappy Christmas; the Mauran family; desire for Laura to stay with Mrs Donaldson in England; Auntie; Christmas dinner; Lottie; Mabel Loraine Greirs; Emily Lamb; Laura’s virtues; womanly traits; Miss Clark Kennedy; George; debt; food; ice skating; journey to India; music tuition; ancestry; payment of Mrs Irvine; letter from Mr Brackenbury regarding George; her husband’s trip; subscription dance for the Officers of the 4th Cavalry Hyderabad Contingent; ride with Mr Cockerill; Lady Crosthwaite’s ‘at Home’; Dr. Swayne; clothes for the voyage to India; singing lessons; finances; Col. Walker; Aggie Riddell’s illness; sleeping with Hilda Street; Auntie; Sir Charles MacGregor

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