BIB_ID
126922
Accession number
MA 666.6
Creator
Buchan, David Stewart Erskine, Earl of, 1742-1829.
Display Date
1802 Aug. 13.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 24.5 cm
Notes
Address panel with part of a seal to "Right Hon.ble / The Lady Anne Hamilton / Palace of Hamilton;" over the address is a note "Tell Eliza that the Picture is / Blount Earl of Newport."
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.
With a note on the verso "You are my Mademoiselle Gournay, / I have left you by my will the first Heiress / of my writings, and so as long as my name lives, yours will be handed down to Posterity. / Mrs. Barbanld [?] is the second."
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.
With a note on the verso "You are my Mademoiselle Gournay, / I have left you by my will the first Heiress / of my writings, and so as long as my name lives, yours will be handed down to Posterity. / Mrs. Barbanld [?] is the second."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson in 1910.
Summary
Referring to being "present at an Election of the Peers of Scotland" and thanking her for her friendship in bringing it about; discussing mutual friends; commending the "Noble conduct of your Princely Father, whom I declare to be the genuine Head of the House of Douglas on its old & original Title of Honour & Spirit..;" expressing his happiness that she is pleased with the picture of the Countess of Lennox; adding that he has written to "investigate the story of the Miniature of Queen Mary which is so old a one that there may be about it some mal-entendre, it being very long since I heard it from the family of Mar;" wishing to "cultivate the Friendship of the House of Hamilton" but expressing his regret of "being born as it were out of due time & in such circumstances that I cannot do it so much or so often as I should wish & do sincerely desire, but however it may be I shall not cease to avail myself of every opportunity of assuring your Ladyship of the sincere esteem of your faithful Servant."
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