BIB_ID
363064
Accession number
MA 7360.122
Creator
Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813.
Display Date
[1786] July 22.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 23.2 cm
Notes
Mr. Doggett was steward to the Marquis of Buckingham and shot himself in July 1786.
Part of a collection of autograph letters written to Sir Stafford Northcote in the 1860s from British politicians, foreign ministers and other notables of the period. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
The recipient is not identified and the letter is simply dated "Stowe July 22"; a published letter from the Marquis of Buckingham to W.W. Grenville, dated July 1786, refers to Mr. Doggett and appears to have been written just prior to this letter; it establishes that he will be traveling to Stowe and makes it likely that the year is 1786, as July 22nd did fall on a Saturday in that year. Published in the Manuscripts of J.B. Fortescue, Esq., Volume 1. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1892, p. 263.
Part of a collection of autograph letters written to Sir Stafford Northcote in the 1860s from British politicians, foreign ministers and other notables of the period. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
The recipient is not identified and the letter is simply dated "Stowe July 22"; a published letter from the Marquis of Buckingham to W.W. Grenville, dated July 1786, refers to Mr. Doggett and appears to have been written just prior to this letter; it establishes that he will be traveling to Stowe and makes it likely that the year is 1786, as July 22nd did fall on a Saturday in that year. Published in the Manuscripts of J.B. Fortescue, Esq., Volume 1. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1892, p. 263.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Thanking him for his letter "upon the subject of Mr. Doggett;" discussing a possible replacement for Mr. Doggett; seeming to discuss the financial affairs of Mr. Doggett and the circumstances of his two daughters who may need to "depend for subsistence upon the kindness of those who thought well of the father & feel for them."
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