Letters from Mabel Hutton to her family in England. The letters describe her life in India while her husband was an engineer with the PWD in the United Provinces. In 1915, the couple moved to Kashmir on C H Hutton's retirement, and the letters describe living and travelling in the Princely State.
Elsie Hutton was Mable Hutton's niece. The letters were written to her parents and her sister Lucy while on a visit to India, and are addressed from the Anchor Line ship SS Olympia sailing to India; Taj Mahal Hotel, Bombay; Civil Lines, Meerut; Epiphany School, Cawnpore; Royal Hotel, Lucknow; Al...
Small notebook containing a handwritten account of a journey taken by Charles and Mabel Hutton from Srinagar to Leh in Ladakh, with brief notes on places visited, accounts and a list of Ladakhi words
An account of our trip to Ladakh in the summer of 1918
Scope & Content:
Description of a journey taken by Charles and Mabel Hutton from Gulmarg to Leh in Ladakh, July to September 1918. Mostly typescript with handwritten corrections, plus handwritten notes on the prayer wheel of Ladakh and Tibet, and on the dril-bu (bell) and dorje (scepter) in Tibetan Buddhist ritual.