Letter from CT Ramage to his mother from Naples
Reference code
RAM/02/05
Title
Letter from CT Ramage to his mother from Naples
Date
9 March 1826
Level of description
item
Scope and content
Letter sent by CT Ramage to his mother from Naples on 9 March 1826 complaining of difficulties with correspondence and commenting on the cold and snowy winter weather that past winter in Naples. Observations of the two weeks of Carnival, with masks worn and friends pelted with sugar plums, at which 100,000 people were estimated to be present. At the close of the Carnival Lady Drummon held an immense party for 300, which the Princess of Parma ('remarkably pretty')attended. Further comments on Lenten customs following Carnival. Reports on his work as tutor to the children of Sir Henry Lushington, 2nd Baronet. References experience of an earthquake a few weeks earlier. Post-script dated 14 March 1826 notes that The Revenge is in sight and 'Miss Louisa's heart leaps for joy'.
Creator
Ramage, Craufurd Tait (1803-1878), clergyman, private tutor and author