Title
Letter from Thomas Stamford Raffles to the Revd Thomas Raffles
Year/Period
29 Jan 1822
Region
Bencoolen (Bengkulu, Sumatra)
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 24.9 x 20.0 cm
Accession No.
2019-00195
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Tang Holdings Pte Ltd
Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles established a British East India Company trading factory in Singapore in 1819. This letter is part of a collection of letters he wrote to his cousin, the Revd Thomas Raffles, an influential religious leader in Liverpool to whom Raffles was close and with whom he corresponded frequently. In this letter from Bencoolen, Raffles mentions the deaths of his three eldest children, and his hopes of returning to England.
