BIB_ID
356190
Accession number
MA 707.30
Creator
Mary, Duchess of Gloucester, 1776-1857.
Display Date
[18--?] Sept. 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22.5 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark and seal to "Lady Charlotte Belasyse / Poste [illegible] / Boulogne / Sur / Mer."
Part of a collection of letters from William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester to Francis James Jackson and Sir Sidney Smith and from Mary, Duchess of Gloucester to Lady Charlotte Belasyse. Letters in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information.
Part of a collection of letters from William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester to Francis James Jackson and Sir Sidney Smith and from Mary, Duchess of Gloucester to Lady Charlotte Belasyse. Letters in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from J. Pearson & Company, 1910.
Summary
Discussing the health of Lady Charlotte and the position of Lady of the Bed Chamber; saying that "nothing but your uncertain state of health could have made us wish for any change in regard to being the Lady of the Bed Chamber - The situation of things here are so different to former times that they ought not or can they be in any way compared."
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