BIB_ID
359693
Accession number
MA 826.6
Creator
Devonshire, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of, 1758-1824.
Display Date
1790 May 20.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 14.7 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.
The letter is incomplete.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson, 1908.
Summary
Reporting that Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, may be going into labor; expressing her anxiety over Georgiana's health; giving a favorable report of the house where they are staying [the home of the Duc d'Ahrenberg]; writing later in the day ("Evening 9") to say that "it was all false alarm" [Georgiana gave birth to a boy on May 21, 1790].
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