BIB_ID
332701
Accession number
MA 1026.46
Creator
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852.
Display Date
1841 Feb. 25.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1925.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.2 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
Noting that the affairs of the world are in a "curious state" and arguing that, while the first leaders of the democratic revolutions probably did not intend to sow corruption, faction and evil, the second leaders did this. Fearing that Europe has regressed more than a century and thinking it probable that there will never be the opportunity to check "the mischief of anarchy."
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