BIB_ID
189547
Accession number
MA 8948
Creator
Bentinck, William Henry Cavendish, Lord, 1774-1839.
Display Date
undated [1802-1809].
Description
1 items (3 pages) ; 23.5 x 18.8 cm
Notes
Written from Burlington House.
The letter is dated only "Friday Morning", but it appears to have been written in the period between Bentinck's appointment as governor of Madras in 1802-3 and his father's death in 1809.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of Alexis Brialmont, History of the life of Arthur, duke of Wellington (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858-1860); PML 7901-7916; volume iv, page 135.
The letter is dated only "Friday Morning", but it appears to have been written in the period between Bentinck's appointment as governor of Madras in 1802-3 and his father's death in 1809.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of Alexis Brialmont, History of the life of Arthur, duke of Wellington (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858-1860); PML 7901-7916; volume iv, page 135.
Summary
Thanking the recipient of the letter for the "very kind & friendly offer which you made to my Father & which you have now repeated in your letter to me"; assuring him that he feels "the full value of the channels of information proposed to me"; writing that he can inform himself about the history of India at India House (the East India Company's London office), but "to the Practical part of the System, to the internal management of the Country, to opinions formed by experience & abilities, I have as yet had no access"; explaining that "the extreme hurry of Preparation" has entirely taken up all his time in London, which was why he had to decline an earlier invitation, and that he has now been called away from the city for a few days but, on his return, he hopes "to have the pleasure of seeing you & of expressing to you in person how really obliged to you I feel for the interest which you have taken in my Welfare."
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