Language: English
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
octavo, 12 pages, illustrated with several pen and ink line sketches, in very good, clean and legible condition. Ryan writes a highly detailed letter describing his work and life in India. Ryan was a Civil Engineer, engaged in building rail lines for the Indian Government, at the time he wrote this letter he was then in charge of the Khanpur division of the Indus Valley Line. Ryan contracted malaria while engaged in this work and died in 1876 after leaving India.