BIB_ID
360085
Accession number
MA 826.67
Creator
Devonshire, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of, 1758-1824.
Display Date
ca. 1817.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.3 cm
Notes
Date is based on the mention of the Stuart papers. Consalvi and the Duchess helped secure the return of the Stuart papers to Windsor in 1817.
Lacking the beginning of the letter.
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.
Possibly to Harriet Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough.
Lacking the beginning of the letter.
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.
Possibly to Harriet Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson, 1908.
Summary
Reporting that "the Stuart papers are secured"; mentioning Cardinal Consalvi; commenting on a man named [Robert] Watson who fled England to avoid trial and was involved in a dispute over the ownership of the Stuart papers.
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