BIB_ID
354670
Accession number
MA 699.3
Creator
Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820.
Display Date
1800 Apr. 14.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 32.3 cm
Notes
Address panel to "Major General Burton / Commanding at / Montreal / Lower Canada."
Docketed on verso.
Part of a collection of letters from Edward, Duke of Kent to General Napier Christie-Burton and others. Letters have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Signed as "General and Commander in / Chief of His Majesty's Forces / Serving in British North Am."
Docketed on verso.
Part of a collection of letters from Edward, Duke of Kent to General Napier Christie-Burton and others. Letters have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Signed as "General and Commander in / Chief of His Majesty's Forces / Serving in British North Am."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson in 1910.
Summary
Concerning Regimental business; discussing the pay for Lieutenant Christie; saying he has the ability to recommend someone for a vacancy but does not have the power to fill the position; discussing possible reimbursement to Burton for the extra expense occurred in his passage to Canada; informing him that he hopes to visit Canada in the summer.
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