BIB_ID
354723
Accession number
MA 699.10
Creator
Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820.
Display Date
1805 Jan. 3.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmarks and addressed to "Lieut. Gen'l Burton / 20 Upper Brook Street / Grosvenor Square / Kent & Strathearn."
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
Acknowledging receipt of his letter "which gave me the unwelcome information of the failure of your hopes with respect to the 62'd Regiment;" saying that he trusts "it must insure your name being submitted to His Majesty, by the Duke of York, whenever a future vacancy occurs..."
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