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Autograph letter : place not specified, to [Harriet Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough?], 1790 May 19-20.

BIB_ID
359674
Accession number
MA 826.5
Creator
Devonshire, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of, 1758-1824.
Display Date
1790 May 19-20.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 16.3 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters from Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, to Henrietta Frances Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 826 for more information.
The letter is incomplete.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson, 1908.
Summary
Promising to write more and explaining how busy she has been; saying, "there is nothing friendship can imagine ... that [she] will not do for [Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire] and [Harriet, Georgiana's sister]"; discussing shared acquaintances.