Title
Letter from Thomas Stamford Raffles to the Revd Thomas Raffles
Year/Period
21 Oct 1825
Region
London
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 25.1 x 20.2 cm
Accession No.
2019-00209
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 brief letter, Raffles writes about looking forward the Christmas season and seeing his cousin.
