BIB_ID
360045
Accession number
MA 826.61
Creator
Devonshire, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of, 1758-1824.
Display Date
1821 May 12-19.
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
Telling her not to send letters "to the foreign office" because "they don't arrive for ages"; discussing family members and friends; complaining about the presence of Austrians in Italy and wondering why "England and France [are] allowing such an exercise of power"; wondering where her sister is and where she is planning to go; commenting on the political upheaval in Greece.
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