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Autograph letter signed : Walmer Castle [near Deal, Kent], to Thomas Raikes, 1840 Sept. 5.

BIB_ID
332556
Accession number
MA 1026.5
Creator
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852.
Display Date
1840 Sept. 5.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1925.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 18.5 cm
Notes
Address panel with stamp, seal and several postmarks and addressed to Raikes in Paris.
Part of a collection of letters from the Duke of Wellington to the banker and diarist Thomas Raikes. Items in the collection have been described individually; see related collection-level catalog record for more information.
Provenance
By descent to Raikes's grandson Percy B. Raikes; Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from F.G. Sweet, 1925.
Summary
Noting that the newspapers in France and England are "again becoming less pacific" and fearing that this stance is a reflection of public sentiment; wishing that there was an opportunity to bring the affair [the Oriental Crisis of 1840] to a close peacefully.