BIB_ID
356590
Accession number
MA 713.12
Display Date
1821 Aug. 14.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
34 items (52 p.) ; 31.5 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters relating to the funeral of Queen Caroline. Letters in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information.
Some of the statements are docketed on the verso.
There are 27 statements that relate to the riots of August 14, 182 at the funeral of Queen Caroline and 7 statements that relate to the riots of August 26, 1821 at the funeral of Richard Honey, a carpenter, and George Francis a bricklayer, who were killed in the riots of August 14, 1821.
Some of the statements are docketed on the verso.
There are 27 statements that relate to the riots of August 14, 182 at the funeral of Queen Caroline and 7 statements that relate to the riots of August 26, 1821 at the funeral of Richard Honey, a carpenter, and George Francis a bricklayer, who were killed in the riots of August 14, 1821.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from J. Pearson & Company, 1910.
Summary
Being eyewitness accounts by guards and policemen who were on duty at the funeral of Queen Caroline on August 14, 1821 when the rioting broke out and eyewitness accounts by guards and policemen who were on duty at the riots twelve days later, August 26, 1821, for the funeral of two men killed in the riots at Queen Caroline's funeral.
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