BIB_ID
359769
Accession number
MA 826.18
Creator
Devonshire, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of, 1758-1824.
Display Date
1812 Sept. 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 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.
With trace of a seal.
With trace of a seal.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson, 1908.
Summary
Hoping she has the same fair weather they are getting; asking what accounts she has of little George; commenting on developments in the Napoleonic Wars.
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