BIB_ID
210800
Accession number
MA 9370
Creator
Clifford, Elizabeth Martin, Lady, -1709.
Display Date
1673 November 12.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 21.9 x 17.3 cm
Notes
Identity of recipient inferred from contents of the letter.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of the Royal House of Stuart, vol. 2, p. 33.
The recipient, Lady Bridget Osborne, was the wife of Thomas Osborne, Viscount Latimer, who succeeded Thomas Clifford as Lord High Treasurer in June 1673.
Thomas Clifford died on October 17, 1673.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of the Royal House of Stuart, vol. 2, p. 33.
The recipient, Lady Bridget Osborne, was the wife of Thomas Osborne, Viscount Latimer, who succeeded Thomas Clifford as Lord High Treasurer in June 1673.
Thomas Clifford died on October 17, 1673.
Summary
Thanking her for her advice and for honoring the memory of her husband with her letter and the letter of her husband; saying she is "...the most afflicted and desolat of all women having lost the best husband and freind [sic] that ever any woman had..."
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