Autograph letter signed : "Stoke Place', to Lord Fife, 1788 Nov. 27.

Record ID: 
356711
Accession number: 
MA 714.3
Author: 
Howard, George, Sir, 1718-1796.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description: 
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.3 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.

Summary: 

Commenting on the King George's illness; saying "I grieve with my heart that I am not able to send you a satisfactory account of the Good King. My Mind is still so oppressed at the Rapidity with which his Illness has come on, and the State he is in, that I cannot recover my Spirits. However, I trust in God he will recover, though perhaps by slow degrees, and the Physicians have the same Confidence as there are very many Examples of a similar Nature. The Distress and Anxiety of our most amiable Queen is much more easily imagined than expressed."

Provenance: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from J. Pearson & Company, 1910.