BIB_ID
359976
Accession number
MA 826.52
Creator
Devonshire, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of, 1758-1824.
Display Date
1819 May 14.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 20.3 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.
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
Sharing gossip about some of their friends and acquaintances; commenting on Mt. Vesuvius's recent activity; mentioning Cardinal Consalvi; talking about a recent quarantine; reporting that she is moving to the Palazzo Spada because "they say in summer that one ought not to be amonst vineyards."
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