BIB_ID
106076
Accession number
MA 9154
Creator
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
Display Date
1793 July 10.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 22.8 x 19 cm
Notes
Dundas is not identified anywhere on the letter as the recipient, but The Correspondence of Edmund Burke positively identifies him as such based on Dundas's response to this letter, which has survived. See pages 377-378 in the Correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Burke gives the place of writing as "Beconsfield," a spelling he regularly uses for "Beaconsfield."
Docketed.
Removed in 1925 from The Junius Controversy.
Burke gives the place of writing as "Beconsfield," a spelling he regularly uses for "Beaconsfield."
Docketed.
Removed in 1925 from The Junius Controversy.
Summary
Applying for a passage to France for the Duchess de La Trémoille: "She wishes to return to the Continent, animated, I suppose, by some hopes of being able to find her way into her own Country, by some turn of fortune favourable to the allied arms"; explaining further that "as on a former occasion, she very narrowly escaped with Life, she has a natural dread of falling again into the same cruel Hands; & therefore wishes a passage to Ostend, if possible in a Man of War for herself & those with her"; asking that Dundas send the permission directly to the Duchess; adding in a postscript that there is "another Lady with the Dutchess who wishes to accompany her with their Domesticks."
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