Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to Digby P. Starkey, [1847].

BIB_ID
195883
Accession number
MA 13645
Creator
Carleton, William, 1794-1869.
Display Date
[1847].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 19 x 11.8 cm
Notes
Date based on internal evidence; a memorial petitioning the British government to provide Carleton with a pension was prepared by his supporters in 1847 and Carleton was granted a pension of £200 by Lord John Russell the following year.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Asking him to get Maria Edgeworth's signature for his "memorial" [i.e. a memorial bearing the signatures of various prominent people of the day to be presented to the British Government on Carleton's behalf asking that he be granted a pension].