BIB_ID
333466
Accession number
MA 1026.63
Creator
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852.
Display Date
1842 Dec. 1.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1925.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.9 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.
Written on mourning paper.
Written on mourning paper.
Provenance
By descent to Raikes's grandson Percy B. Raikes; Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from F.G. Sweet, 1925.
Summary
Thanking him for his letters and apologizing for not responding sooner; remarking that England has finally extracted itself from difficulties in both the East and the West and trusting that the government will not so entangle itself again. Remarking that "matters are awkwardly circumstanced in Portugal as well as in Spain."
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