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Date transcribed2011-03-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Draper    
First Name(s)  Elizabeth    
Year of Birth  1744    
Year of Death  1778    
Entry  Daughter of Major Sclater : born at Anjengo, April 5, 1744 : educated in England : went to India, Dec. 1757: married in July, 1758, Daniell Draper, of the E.I. Co.'s Civil Service, Secretary to Government, 20 years her senior. When in England in 1766-7, she met Lawrence Sterne, the humourist, who became infatuated with her, addressing her as Bramine in amorous letters, and writing the Joumal to Eliza for her. She returned to India in 1767, and saw Sterne no more : lived with her husband at Tellicherry, Surat and. Bombay, but unhappily, and, on Jan. 12, 1773, fled from his house at Mazagon, Bombay, with a Naval officer, repairing to her uncle's at Rajamundry : returned to England in 1774. Sterne had died in 1768. She published as Letters of Yorick to Eliza, some of Sterne's letters to her, including her answers. She died Aug. 3, 1778 and was buried in the Cathedral cloisters at Bristol. Draper became a Member of Council, at Bombay, and died Oct. 10, 1782. Her name and story were recalled, by L'Abbe Raynal, who had seen her in India, and by James Forbes in his Oriental Memoirs, and some of her letters have been preserved.     
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