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 : Cliveden, Maidenhead [near Taplow, to Cyrus W. Field], [186-] July 10.

BIB_ID
293060
Accession number
MA 140.19
Creator
Sutherland, Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower, Duchess of, 1806-1868.
Display Date
[186-] July 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.9 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters to Cyrus Field and documents related to the transatlantic telegraph cable. Items in the collection are described in separate records; see MA 140 for more information.
The mourning stationery suggests that the letter may have been written after the Duke of Sutherland's death in 1861.
Written on mourning stationery with a scroll and crown printed at the top.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the New York Co-operative Society, 1909.
Summary
Asking him to extend an invitation to dine and sleep at Cliveden to a Mr. Peabody because she has "so great a wish to make his acquaintance."