BIB_ID
126919
Accession number
MA 666.12
Creator
Buchan, David Stewart Erskine, Earl of, 1742-1829.
Display Date
[1803-1829].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.3 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of twelve letters from the Earl of Buchan to Lady Anne Hamilton. Letters have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
The letter is undated, however he refers to an artist she sent to him in 1802.
The letter is undated, however he refers to an artist she sent to him in 1802.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson in 1910.
Summary
Asking her to sit for a portrait "as Urania in return for the Lady Margaret Douglas Countess of Lenox...;" asking her to "remember all that I have said to you heretofore & look again & again at my youthful life in your hands & so think and conduct yourself that we may meet at least in the Regions of tranquillity [sic] and immortal Bliss. Farewell."
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