The journals of Honoria Lawrence: India observed 1837-1854

In Nair, P.Thankappan, 1989. Calcutta in the 19th century (Company’s days). Calcutta, Firma KLM, pp. 613-614
The journals of Honoria Lawrence: India observed 1837-1854, edited by Lawrence & Audrey Woodiwiss. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1980
Calcutta in 1837
p.45 Near Cossipore is a house with large grounds, belonging to a Hindoo. We went into the grounds one evening to look at his pet rhinoceros. There were four or five of these curious creatures, walking about tame and grazing or rather grubbing in the earth for roots. Their keepers sat by, but their office was only to watch that their charge did not wander away. The animals were perfectly tame and allowed us to pat them, they followed their keepers and are quite harmless. Footnote: The reference is perhaps to Raja Buddynath Roy’s menagerie, which is still remembered by “Chiriyamore”
Honoria Lawrence (1808-1854), wife of Henry Lawrence (Brigadier-General Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence, 1806-1857)