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W1/2274
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R Downie of Messrs Downie Cruttenden & Co, Calcutta, to Hon Frederick Fitzroy care of Messrs Palmer, Wilson & Co, London
Date free text
19 February 1810
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From: 1810 To: 1810
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As he hears Fitzroy is not to return to India, sends a draft for £400 (enclosed), the balance of his account. Colonel Nightingall, private secretary to Sir George Barlow, has written a recommendation for an East India Company pension as Senior Merchant out of employ. Mentions Fitzroy's two sons now in England, & his daughter in the charge of Major Loveday. "She is said to be very like you and it seems melancholy that the poor thing should be brought up like a native in a zenana - they seem to wish to be freed from the charge of her. Can you suggest anything for the poor girl".
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