BIB_ID
354714
Accession number
MA 699.9
Creator
Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820.
Display Date
"Tuesday morning" 1804 Jan. 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 19.3 cm
Notes
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.
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson in 1910.
Summary
Writing "in the utmost confidence to acquaint you, that my Father is most favorably disposed towards you, and that from the most undoubted authority, I know all will end comfortably in your return to your district very shortly;" referring to a letter "which caused me so many a bitter reproach...had it but been suffered to proceed to its destination, my opinion would have been proved correct, in the Court Martial being wholly avoided;" asking him to ..."cheer up, better times are not distant, and therefore beg to forget the past."
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