JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE IN INDIA

First edition: 211 pages, hand coloured frontispiece, 16 engraved plates (including the Castle and the Parade in Cape Town) – 2 folding, full calf binding with gilt vignette and gilt border on the covers, the boards are slightly scuffed, rebacked preserving the original back strip with black title labels gilt on the spine and gilt decoration, light foxing and some browning throughout, marbled end papers with reinforced hinges, a very good copy.

Cape of Good Hope pages 174 -180
St. Helena pages 180 -182

Maria Graham (née Dundas; 19 July 1785 – 21 November 1842) later Maria, Lady Callcott, was a British writer of travel books and children's books, and also an accomplished illustrator. She was born near Cockermouth in Cumberland as Maria Dundas, and didn't see much of her father during her childhood and teenage years, as he was one of the many naval officers that the Scottish Dundas clan has raised through the years.

In 1808 when his sea-fighting years were over, her father took an appointment as head of the naval works at the British East India Company's dockyard in Bombay. When he went out to India he brought his now 23-year-old daughter along. During the long trip Maria Dundas fell in love with a young Scottish naval officer aboard, Thomas Graham, third son to Robert Graham, the last Laird of Fintry. They married in India in 1809. In 1811, the young couple returned to England, where Graham published her first book, Journal of a Residence in India, followed soon afterwards by Letters on India. A few years later her father was appointed commissioner of the naval dockyard in Cape Town, where he died in 1814, aged 58, having been promoted rear-admiral just two months earlier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Graham

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