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Autograph letter signed : London, to the Earl of Buchan, 1818 Apr. 23.

BIB_ID
352455
Accession number
MA 663.5
Creator
Harvie, J. S.
Display Date
1818 Apr. 23.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 23.1 cm
Notes
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
Sending him a list of the portraits he has completed; discussing the untimely death of Princess Charlotte; saying that he had "other reasons in conjunction with many others to deplore her untimely & melancholy fate, she gave me to understand she had something in view for the exercise of my pencil, which was to have been communicated when Lord Breadalbanes collection was compleated & laid before her;" reiterating his belief that the additional portraits of the Brunswick family would make a good addition to the Stuart portraits for Lord Breadalbane and asking him to speak to Lord Breadalbane on his behalf.