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Autograph letter signed : Walmer Castle [near Deal, Kent], to Thomas Raikes, 1840 Oct. 9.

BIB_ID
332568
Accession number
MA 1026.12
Creator
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852.
Display Date
1840 Oct. 9.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1925.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 18 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and 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
Hoping for peace; remarking that Muhammad Ali is acting with "stupid folly" and that he cannot understand how King Louis Philippe may choose to involve the whole world in war "in order to prevent a servant of the Porte [Ottoman Empire] from submitting to the will of his master, to which he declared himself willing to submit."