BIB_ID
352453
Accession number
MA 663.4
Creator
Harvie, J. S.
Display Date
1816 Mar. 21.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal to "The Earl of Buchan."
Docketed on verso and with a note by the Earl of Buchan.
Part of a collection of eight letters from J.S. Harvie to David Steuart Erskine, eleventh Earl of Buchan. Letters have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Written from Windsor Castle.
Docketed on verso and with a note by the Earl of Buchan.
Part of a collection of eight letters from J.S. Harvie to David Steuart Erskine, eleventh Earl of Buchan. Letters have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Written from Windsor Castle.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson in 1910.
Summary
Saying he has been asked by the Princess Elizabeth to paint two portraits and she might also be interested in a "collection of the Brunswick family from the King & Queen of Bohemia to the present time;" asking if he would be willing to write to Lord Breadalbane to suggest that he add the House of Brunswick portraits to that of the Stuart family portraits; reminding him that he said "it would not be right for Lord B. to eat the cow & worry on the tail;" adding in a postscript that "Every one is in a bustle here about the wedding of the princess Charlotte which is to be in Easter week..."
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