Contact With India in Later Life
After 36 years of silence, Kitty was able to establish contact with her grandmother Sharaf un-Nissa with the help of Englishman Henry Russell. Although they never saw each other again, the two women corresponded regularly for six years.
Kitty Phillips died in Torquay, Devon, in 1889.
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