Catharine Grace Loch, Royal Red Cross, Senior Lady Superintendent Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India : a memoir / edited by A.F. Bradshaw.

  • Loch, Catharine Grace, 1854-1904.
Date:
1905
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Credit: Catharine Grace Loch, Royal Red Cross, Senior Lady Superintendent Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India : a memoir / edited by A.F. Bradshaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1891] AT MEEliUT AND AGRA Jan. 20.—Meerut.-—I arrived yesterday morning. It is a very pretty station with a beautiful Mall and splendid trees and very good public gardens, which do not look at all winter-like as the trees are all green, and there are many flowers and quantities of poinsettias which make a superb show. But the country all round is perfectly flat and dull, and it is much less cold here than at Pindi. Sister Welchman and I went to the Club to see some private theatricals; they have what they call' INIonday Fops^ something every week. When travelling.on duty one is allowed to halt one day for every 100 miles, so I am going to visit Agra on my way to Lucknow which is the end of my ofllcial journey. The distance of that place from Pindi being 800 miles I shall have time enough for a visit to Mhow and a stay there of three days. Jan. 28.—Sister Welchman and I started last Wednes- day morning at nine o^clock and reached Agra at five in the evening. It was getting dusk when we drove from our hotel to the Taj, so we wandered about awhile and then sat on a terrace watching for the moon. AVhen it did rise the view was most inexpressibly beautiful. I do wish I could give some faint idea of what the place is like. There is an immense garden enclosed by high walls, with a large mosque of beautiful red sandstone at each corner and an entrance through other also beautiful buildings of red sandstone in the middle of three of the walls. The chief entrance to which one drives up has an immense arch of sculptured white marble through the centre of it, and when one stands in the middle of the gateway the Taj comes into view as if in a frame. Everyone’s first impression is that