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Autograph letter : "Downing Street" [London], to Lady Holdernesse, 1798 Aug. 22.

BIB_ID
129513
Accession number
MA 895.1
Creator
Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
Display Date
1798 Aug. 22.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.9 cm
Notes
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 a separate address panel signed by Pitt and addressed to "The Countess of Holdernesse / Hertford Street."
Written in the third person.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1912.
Summary
Informing her that he has "this day laid before the King [George III] the Warrant for the Renewal of the Grant of the Royalty of Richmond and Middleham."