BIB_ID
332580
Accession number
MA 1026.17
Creator
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852.
Display Date
1840 Oct. 26.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1925.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 18.4 cm
Notes
Address panel with stamp, 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.
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
Saying he is glad to learn that an administration will be successfully formed in France and that "the settlement of the foreign question [the Oriental Crisis of 1840] is simplified;" referencing in passing the British Cabinet's relationship to Thiers and Guizot.
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