BIB_ID
359852
Accession number
MA 826.28
Creator
Devonshire, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of, 1758-1824.
Display Date
1815 Sept. 26.
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 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.
With postmark and seal.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson, 1908.
Summary
Thanking her for her letter with its account of Waterloo and a copy of Lord Byron's Hebrew Melodies; mentioning various people she has seen in Italy; noting that "Bonaparte has ended his drama without any dignity."
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