BIB_ID
375290
Accession number
MA 755.15
Creator
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821.
Display Date
[1809] Aug. 7.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.4 cm
Notes
Dated "Monday August 7th"; August 7th fell on a Monday in 1809. The reference to the Walcheren Campaign also places the letter in 1809.
Part of a collection of letters, documents, and engravings related to George IV, Queen Caroline, and Princess Charlotte. See main record for MA 755 for details.
Part of a collection of letters, documents, and engravings related to George IV, Queen Caroline, and Princess Charlotte. See main record for MA 755 for details.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1911.
Summary
Announcing "the first success of our Expedition" [the Walcheren Expedition] and hoping that the troops "may succeed upon Flushing"; discussing a trip to Strawberry Hill with Lady Charlotte [Bury] and a visit to Lady Glenbervie [Lady Catherine Anne North]; noting that she was "yesterday for the last time at St. James' Chapel"; mentioning a visit to see Lady Aberdeen [Lady Catherine Elizabeth Hamilton?], "where [she] found Lord Hamilton just returned from Ireland"; sending her "best love to Lady de Clifford."
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