BIB_ID
359941
Accession number
MA 826.44
Creator
Devonshire, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of, 1758-1824.
Display Date
1817 Nov. 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.6 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; place of writing is from postmark.
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; place of writing is from postmark.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson, 1908.
Summary
Discussing her plans for visitors who are arriving soon; mentioning various people who are in Rome and asking for information about them; complaining about her brother's visit because his wife always "think[s] herself ill" and their children have had "the measles one after the other"; gossiping about shared acquaintances.
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