BIB_ID
333495
Accession number
MA 1026.72
Creator
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852.
Display Date
1843 Aug. 11.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1925.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.4 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
Disagreeing with Raikes's views on Spain, noting that Wellington has "had a knowledge of the politics of Spain for a greater length of time than most men now alive." Also noting that England's foreign policy relationship with Spain has never been explicitly anti-Gallic, but has always attempted to promote a Spanish agenda for Spain.
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