Record ID:
332632
Accession number:
MA 1026.39
Credit:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1925.
Description:
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.3 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.
Summary:
Concerning a meeting of Parliament and his ignorance of the Queen's speech. With a postscript mentioning that he dined with Lord Hertford and fifty peers yesterday.
Provenance:
By descent to Raikes's grandson Percy B. Raikes; Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from F.G. Sweet, 1925.
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