The author of the letters Emily Eden and her sister Fanny accompanied their brother George Eden
the Governor-General of India in his 2-year trip across India. George and Emily kept a journal
which she sent as a series of letters to another sister in England. This volume covers the
period from October 1837 to 1840 when George Eden went on tour in the upper provinces meeting
local rulers and potentates with a caravan of staff followers and soldiers which often
numbered up to 20 000 people. The journal about this trip is an interesting look at life in the
English upper classes in India before the mutiny and before Victoria was proclaimed Empress.
