Record ID:
359763
Accession number:
MA 826.17
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description:
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 17.7 cm
Notes:
With trace of a seal.
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.
Summary:
Discussing the political situation in Russia, Spain, and England; wishing that "our friends the Spaniards could be brought to a little more exertion"; mentioning [Richard Brinsley] Sheridan.
Provenance:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson, 1908.
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