Autograph Letter Signed by 'Mohindro Ranjan Raj of Kokina' [Mahima Ranjan Rai Chaudri; Mahendra Ranjan Roy Chowdhury] to his governess Miss Campbell Brewster, writing in English on the occasion of her retirement.

8vo, 3 pp. Bifolium. 50 lines. Text clear and complete. Good, on aged paper. In original envelope, addressed by the Raja to 'Miss Cambell [sic] Brewster | The Palace | Kakina'. He is enclosing a cheque for a month's salary 'as a parting present from the Ranu & myself'. She has been 'precisely like one of the family', and her 'leaving us & the children for good, is a very great wrench to us all'. 'Bunna & Tootie' will miss her 'terribly', and 'it will be not an easy matter to get the place you are vacating, filled in suitably'. Every year that they are 'permitted to celebrate the Ranu's Birthday', they will miss her 'very keenly [...] for on that day on the past two or three years we all felt very proud of you & our two loving daughters'. He praises her 'clear & talented instructions', which have won the girls 'continual rounds of hearty applause from the great gatherings of friends & visitors during their musical & dramatic performances' and 'warm congratulations they received from their excellencies Lord & Lady Carmichael' (Carmichael was Governor of Madras, 1911-1912). Ends by wishing her 'every happiness & success in life'. More information on the Raja is to be found on pp.300-301 of Sir Roper Lethbridge's 'Golden Book of India' (1893).