BIB_ID
354266
Accession number
MA 698.27
Creator
Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820.
Display Date
1810 Feb. 7.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (9 p.) ; 32.2 cm
Notes
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.
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson in 1910.
Summary
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.
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