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Copy [underscored] N [struck-through] Providence [Rhode Island] 16 June 1863

To R[utson] Maury My kind friend. I hasten to write to you & tell you that Miss B_ has this morning received a note from the English Consul, enclosing letters from her almost distracted Mother & Sister in Cal- =cutta; & her Mother has sent an ample means, not only to pay her passage home, but to discharge all her other obligations; & has put her under the care of the English Consul though the American Consul now in Calcutta. – Mr. Archibald writes her that the letter has not yet been received, but probably will come in the next steamer: - that her Mother wrote that the Money would be sent by the same Mail that took her letter. – Mr. Archibald writes that she will have to come to N[ew] York to receive the money. I would accompany her, if I were only well enough. She would only go

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in the early train & leave, if possible in that ^ at 10 at night But now she will be under the protection of the English Consul; and I fear less harm to her.

The Mother seems, from her letter, to be a religious woman; and in every part of it correlates Miss B’s statement of her position, & names three Trustees of her property, one of whom is a Mr. Roberts, who has been like a father to her.

You know not what a relief all this is to me.

Miss B_ feels very grateful for the kind interest you have manifested in her very sad condition.

I want her to go to Liverpool in a Br[itish] steamer, go to Miss Williams’, who succeeds her sister Mrs. Blodgett in keeping a boarding house in Duck St. & stay there until a vessel sails direct to Calcutta.

yours truly & very gratefully L. A. Lippett.