BIB_ID
356935
Accession number
MA 714.6
Creator
Smelt, Leonard, 1719?-1800.
Display Date
"Friday morning" 1789 Apr. 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal to "The Earle of Fife / Whitehall."
Docketed on address panel.
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 the third person.
Docketed on address panel.
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 the third person.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from J. Pearson & Company, 1910.
Summary
Apologizing for not answering his note; reporting on the King's illness; saying "that His Majesty is even better this morning than he was yesterday, when he set out for Town, such pleasures as his majesty there enjoyed must ever produce a good effect in such a mind. Mr. S. is well assured of the real pleasure this intelligence will give Lord Fife."
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