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Autograph letter signed with initials : Mount Lebanon, to her cousin, 1814 Aug. 25.

BIB_ID
118026
Accession number
MA 895.26
Creator
Stanhope, Hester, Lady, 1776-1839.
Display Date
1814 Aug. 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 32.4 cm
Notes
At top of p. [1]: "Private."
Part of a collection of letters from and to William Pitt the Elder and William Pitt the Younger. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 894-895 for more detail.
With annotations in the margin in a different hand.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1912.
Summary
Describing her travels in Lebanon; commenting on the hot weather; mentioning the plague; asking if she can "do any commissions" for her cousin before she "leave[s] this part of the world."