History of the Parsis : including their manners, customs, religion and present position : with coloured and other illustrations : in two volumes

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Framji Kavasji's high character and virtues were so deeply appreciated by all classes of his fellowcitizens that on his death, which occurred at the ripe old age of eighty-four, all classes of the communityEuropeans, Parsis, Hindus, and Mahomedans—joined together in a public meeting, convened by the sheriff in the town-hall of Bombay, for the purpose of taking steps to preserve his memory. At this meeting Mr. P. W. LeGeyt, a judge of the then Sadar Adalat (Court of Appeal), presided. Framji’s was the first instance in the history of Western India in which Europeans, as well as natives, joined together to do honour to the memory of a native of

in the Eastern world so closely together that I venture most humbly and most respectfully to lay at your Majesty’s feet some specimens of the celebrated Bombay mangoes, in the earnest hope that this delicious fruit, which has never before been transmitted to Europe, may reach your Majesty in a state of preservation and prove acceptable.

Such precautions have been adopted to preserve the fruit as appear most efficacious, but if the botanists of your Majesty's dominions at home can prescribe a preferable method, it shall be adopted in the transmission of further supplies of this or any other kind of fruit peculiar to the country which has not hitherto been seen in Great Britain.

Your Majesty’s most dutiful and faithful Eastern subject, FraMJI KavasgI.

Bommay, 18th May 1838.

In acknowledgment of this present the Master of the Household conveyed to him the Queen’s approbation of the zeal and enterprise evinced by him, and Her Majesty’s gratification at the dutiful expression of loyalty by which his present was accompanied.