Title
Letter from Thomas Stamford Raffles to Ann Raffles
Year/Period
14 Apr 1820
Region
Bencoolen (Bengkulu, Sumatra)
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 24.9 x 20.1 cm
Accession No.
2019-00223
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 mother Ann, for whom he had a great love. In it, Raffles announces the birth of their third child Stamford, and that the other children were well.
