BIB_ID
359790
Accession number
MA 826.20
Creator
Devonshire, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of, 1758-1824.
Display Date
1812 Oct. 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.6 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 postmark and trace of a seal.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson, 1908.
Summary
Discussing shared acquaintances and an election; giving examples of the "shattered state of [her] nerves"; commenting on the situation in Russia between Napoleon and Alexander I.
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