BIB_ID
332620
Accession number
MA 1026.35
Creator
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852.
Display Date
1840 Dec. 27.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1925.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.6 cm
Notes
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 that England and France will soon discover that there is no cause for war; remarking that "we may do to each other, and the world, a great deal of injury by our quarrels" and calling the notion of armed peace "nonsense;" indicating that Britain would be better prepared for war.
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