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Autograph letter : Rome, to [Harriet Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough], 1815 Nov. 8.

BIB_ID
359795
Accession number
MA 826.24
Creator
Devonshire, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of, 1758-1824.
Display Date
1815 Nov. 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 24.7 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Countess of Bessborough / Cavendish Square / London / Inghilterra."
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson, 1908.
Summary
Describing her time in Rome; noting that there is an "extraordinary ... assembly of people" there; mentioning Napoleon.