Title
Letter from Lady Raffles to Alexander Guthrie
Year/Period
18 Oct 1839
Region
London
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 22.8 x 18.8 cm
Accession No.
2019-00298
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Tang Holdings Pte Ltd
Lady Sophia Raffles was the wife of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, having married him in 1817. This letter was written from her home in High Wood in 1839, sometime after Raffles’ death in 1826. She writes to the Singapore merchant Alexander Guthrie, who was friends with Raffles, relating to property inherited from Captain William Flint and Mary Ann Flint. Mary Ann was Raffles’ sister and Flint her husband.
