| Description | Major Hibbert's wife, to Thomas Hibbert, thanking him for the purchase of her husband's commission as Lieutenant Colonel. They are soon to leave for India. "The chances are, so Sir Robert Walpole told me who is learned in such matters, that if Hugh goes to India in command of the regiment he will be Brigadier General before he is 40." He is at present stationed in Malta, "an odious place" where he is suffering from fever. All the officers there are trying to exchange into the other Battalion in India at Ambala, "where the climate for 7 months in the year is like England and being so close to the hills you can escape all the heat." |