BIB_ID
356191
Accession number
MA 709.18
Creator
Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, 1771-1851.
Display Date
1818 May 19.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters from Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, to Queen Charlotte (his mother) and Captain Charles Jones. Letters are described in individual records; see record for MA 709 for more information.
Written on mourning stationery.
Written on mourning stationery.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson, 1910.
Summary
Wishing her many happy returns of the day by letter since he is "deprived of the grateful opportunity of appraching [her] personally"; expressing his concern at her "late indisposition; noting that this is "probably the last birthday for some time that [he will] witness in England"; expressing his affection for her.
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