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Autograph letter signed : Newstead, to Kaye Dowland, 1838 Jan. 30.

BIB_ID
377487
Accession number
MA 1293.15
Creator
Wildman, Thomas, 1787-1859.
Display Date
1838 Jan. 30.
Credit line
Likely purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22.3 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Kaye Dowland Esq. / Magistrate / Togabo."
Docketed.
Part of the Kaye Dowland Byron Collection, a large collection of letters, documents, engravings, photographs, and printed ephemera related to Lord Byron. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 1293-1294 for details.
With postmark and seal.
Provenance
Kaye Dowland.
Summary
Commenting on the importance of the "West Indian Colonies": "the position of our West Indian Colonies is becoming every day more critical, and will soon be a matter of interest to those who have no dependence upon them, as a source of income"; alluding to an insurrection in Canada; mentioning that he was laid up with the gout and blaming it on "the effects of a city feast"; describing festivities for the "young Queen" [Victoria]; praising Queen Victoria's "steady good sense, kind feeling, and intelligence"; reporting that he saw Mrs. Dowland and she "was looking extremely well, and appeared in good spirits."