Archive / Papers / Cartwright Papers

Description

Mrs. P. Cartwright)

Small Collections Box 6

Rajputana; Punjab; Baluchistan

TS: Notes on life in India from 1910 – 1919 and 1928 – 1932. 10pp. Childhood memories 1914, Forest bungalow, Bikaner for Christmas shoot. Jodhpur, Mt. Abu and Simla where her mother started a school; arrival of first aeroplane at Annandale. Kohat: remembers murder of Colonel and Mrs. Foulkes. Left in 1919 and returned to England. Returned in 1928 aged 18 and went with parents to Baluchistan and Pishin and Chaman. Brief remembrance of eccentric Lady Harrington in Quetta. Social life. Memories are slight and concentrated on a girlhood in an alien surrounding.