BIB_ID
354304
Accession number
MA 698.32
Creator
Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820.
Display Date
1810 08 04.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item ( p., with address) ; 25.1 cm
Notes
Address panel to "M. Gen'l Wetherall / &c &c &c / K&S."
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.
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson in 1910.
Summary
Discussing the departure of his godson, Lieutenant Raynsford, for the Cape; discussing his character and relating news of the Raynsford family situation since the death of Mr. Raynsford; commenting on the continuing illness of his sister [Amelia] saying "...alas! she is still in the same lingering state she has been in for months past, resembling more a Corpse than a living creature, and at this the Physicians yet hold out hopes of her ultimate recovery, I own I am not Sanguine enough to dare look forward to it--and if such is to be the result, her end would be a great release to her, as she is never without the most excruciating pain, and in fact the Medical Men, who have tried all means within their knowledge are to this hour ignorant as to the real nature of her complaint;" discussing his debts and a decrease in his Parliamentary income; relating news of appointments and promotions.
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