Docketed on verso.
Part of a collection of letters from Edward, Duke of Kent to General Wetherall. Letters have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Thanking him for the gifts of the chess men and the Indian ink, "but as the good King's eyes are now in so darkened a state as to have obliged him to lay aside altogether the game of Chess, I have thought it best to retain them for the present myself and shall always have them forthcoming for either King or Queen should I see an opening for offering them to either;" relating news of "...poor Amelia, she is in a most distressing state and I apprehend there is much more to fear than to hope from the result of the dreadful Illness with which she has been afflicted for more than eleven months past and I cannot describe to you the depression which this occasions in the whole Family;" discussing the situation with the Madras Presidency, Wetherall's recent promotion and his posting to India; relating news of mutual friends; saying he is still trying to clear his name and regain his post; adding, in a postscript, news of the marriage of the Duke of Orleans.