Title
Letter from Thomas Stamford Raffles to Ann Raffles
Year/Period
7 Jan 1821
Region
Bencoolen (Bengkulu, Sumatra)
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 22.9 x 18.2 cm
Accession No.
2019-00226
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. It was written from Bencoolen, where Raffles was Lieutenant-Governor, bearing news of his wife Sophia expecting another child.
