BIB_ID
125953
Accession number
MA 150.88
Creator
Londonderry, Frances Pratt, Marchioness of, 1751-1833.
Display Date
[1805 Nov. 15].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.5 cm.
Notes
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
The recipient, Lord Castlereagh, is the stepson of Lady Londonderry; the date, place of writing and the identity of the author and recipient of the original letter are from the published letter.
Written on mourning paper in an unknown hand.
The recipient, Lord Castlereagh, is the stepson of Lady Londonderry; the date, place of writing and the identity of the author and recipient of the original letter are from the published letter.
Written on mourning paper in an unknown hand.
Provenance
By descent to his eldest granddaughter Miss Francis, and in her possession in 1871; sale (London, Sotheby's, 27 November 1897); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1901.
Summary
Replying to her stepson's letter relating news of Trafalgar and the death of Lord Nelson; concluding the letter with "Had I been his Wife or his Mother I would rather have wept him dead, than seen him languish on a less splendid day; in such a Death there is no sting, in such a Grave there is everlasting Victory."
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