“It was not customary to receive or answer letters at such unreasonable hours.”

— Balbhadra Kunwar

In context of British General Gillespie's letter asking surrender of Gorkhalis during the Anglo-Nepalese War as quoted in page no. 14 of [Fraser, James Baillie, 1820, Journal of a Tour Through Part of the Snowy Range of the Himālā Mountains, and to the Sources of the Rivers Jumna and Ganges, London, Rodwell and Martin, https://books.google.com/?id=7ZlBAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false, 69385527]

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