BIB_ID
301239
Accession number
MA 7348.14
Creator
D'Este, Augustus Frederick, 1794-1848.
Display Date
1845 June 6.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters from Edward Bulwer Lytton to Catherine Hutton. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 7348 for more information.
The end of the letter is missing; it is unclear whether this is in Augustus Frederick D'Este's hand.
The end of the letter is missing; it is unclear whether this is in Augustus Frederick D'Este's hand.
Provenance
Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Thanking her for the engraving and purse she sent him; discussing his "infirmity" and "small stock of strength"; mentioning the recent rejection of his "claim to succeed to the peerages of [his] father" [Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex]; giving details of his mother's decision to adopt an incognito [d'Ameland] after George III demanded that she stop calling herself by her husband's title (because their marriage had been declared invalid under the terms of the Royal Marriages Act).
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