BIB_ID
287264
Accession number
MA 755.1-26
Display Date
1786-1830.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 v. (33 items), bound : ill. (ports.) ; 47.5 cm
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1911.
Summary
Collection includes the following: documents and ephemera related to George IV's accension to the throne and coronation (MA 755.2, MA 755.10-11); letters and documents written or signed by George IV (MA 755.3-9, MA 755.12); letters concerning George IV's final illness and death written by Henry Halford and Robert Peel (MA 755.13-14); letters written by Queen Caroline (MA 755.15-17, MA 755.19-21); a letter written by Queen Charlotte (MA 755.18); a letter concerning a witness at Queen Caroline's trial (MA 755.22); letters written by Princess Charlotte (MA 755.1, MA 755.23-24); a letter written by Léopold I (MA 755.25); and a letter written by Maria Anne Fitzherbert (MA 755.26).
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (50.5 cm)
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