BIB_ID
354317
Accession number
MA 698.34
Creator
Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820.
Display Date
1811 May 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (9 p., with address) ; 25.5 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal to "Major General Wetherall / &c &c &c / Madras / Woodford / Kent & Strathern."
Docketed on verso and on address panel.
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 and on address panel.
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
Informing him that the Duke of York has been reinstated as the Commander in Chief of the Army; saying that he hopes this will mean he will "no longer be influenced by the unfounded & ungenerous sentiment that I was an Enemy to his welfare and happiness;" expressing his hopes that he will be made Commander of the Forces in the Mediterranean; referring to the King's health, saying there is "no present prospect of his recovery, but has rather excited fresh alarms of late from the evident relapse;" informing him that his Son will be going to India with the Navy and expressing his hopes that he will soon get his promotion; discussing Regimental business; commenting on the situation in Spain and Portugal saying that "our hopes are much raised as to the attainment of the object of drawing the French if not out of Spain altogether at least to the other side of the Ebro."
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