Title
Letter from Thomas Stamford Raffles to Ann Raffles
Year/Period
10 Apr 1822
Region
Bencoolen (Bengkulu, Sumatra)
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 24.7 x 19.5 cm
Accession No.
2019-00228
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, in the wake of the death of his three eldest children, having just sent his only surviving child Ella to England.
