Four Autograph Letters two Signed, two incomplete with no signature, to Auntie [Elsie &] Helen [young lady's experiences in India 1910]

Total 21pp., 8vo (4) and 4to (17), some marking one hole with loss of two letters, but text clear and complete. A visitor to India, she is writing to her family in England. Her letters reflect the privileged lifestyle of the colonial British with accounts of visits to the races, dances at the yacht club, tennis matches, visit by the Sirdar, debilitating climate, and dinners at the Governor's residence. 'It felt like a play ... driving up to this great lighted up house so very unEnglish - a wide outside staircase all white and scarlet - the magnificent long guard in scarlet and all the servants in white with scarlet bands and turbans ...'. Frances Jackson's later dining companions included Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, sister of President Roosevelt. She's fascinating and kept talking about 'Theodore' and his cattle ranch ... The letters contain good local description including an outing on the Governor's launch to the Elephante Caves, visits to the old Hindu quarter of Bombay, to the burning ground, to a monastery where priests sounded notes on shells (little sketch), and an encounter with a mystic. She writes of the shock of local people at the murder of the British official A.M.T. Jackson, shot dead weeks earlier while visiting the theatre at Nasik in a revolutionary conspiracy. They are very distressed about the murder of Mr Jackson and all the unrest of these 'silly silly boys' as they say. (first letter). Note: Jackson was known to be sympathetic towards Indian aspirations, so his murder was not appreciated by Indian Nationalists.