BIB_ID
356639
Accession number
MA 714.1
Creator
Fife, James Duff, Earl of, 1729-1809.
Display Date
[1789?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 23.5 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters relating to the illness of King George III. Letters in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information.
Written in an unknown hand and neither signed nor dated.
Written in an unknown hand and neither signed nor dated.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from J. Pearson & Company, 1910.
Summary
Being an account of the King's illness and recovery from June 4, 1788 through Thursday, March 26, 1789; providing details of the occasions on which he saw the King and details of the medical care he was receiving; discussing the Regency crisis in Parliament and the opposition sentiment; concluding with a summary of the Queen's appearance, with her daughters, at the Grand Restoration Drawing Room on March 26, 1789.
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