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Autograph letter : Ramsgate, to Mr. Lucas,, [1778-1803] "Wednesday."

BIB_ID
128582
Accession number
MA 894.11
Creator
Chatham, Mary Elizabeth Townshend, Countess of, 1762-1821.
Display Date
[1778-1803] "Wednesday."
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 19.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmarks to "Mr. ? Lucas / Coachmaster / Liquor pond St / Grays Inn Lane / London."
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.
The year of writing is not given, however Lady Chatham was the Dowager Countess of Chatham from 1778-1803.
Written in the third person to Mr. Lucas, identified in the address panel as the Coachmaster at Grays Inn Lane, London.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1912.
Summary
Requesting that Mr. Lucas send Miss Eliot's carriage to the Dowager Lady Chatham at Burton Pynsent.