Autograph Letter in the third person: “Dwawrkanath Tagore will have much pleasure in dining with Mr & Mrs Hawes on Saturday the 13 June ...”1 page 7 x 4 inches, traces of former album mounting on verso, otherwise good.St Georges Hotel, 31 May 1846.
Rare. Dwarkanath Tagore (1794–1846), was one of the first Indian industrialists and entrepreneurs, was the founder of the Jorasanko branch of the Tagore family, and is notable for making substantial contributions to the Bengal Renaissance. A restless soul, with a firm conviction that his racial identity was not a barrier between him and other Britons as long as he remained loyal to the British Sovereign, Tagore was well received by Queen Victoria and many other British and European notables during his two trips to the West in the 1840s; he died in London after a brief illness. He was the grandfather of Rabindranath Tagore. Sir Benjamin Hawes (1797-1862) and his wife Sophia.