BIB_ID
378612
Accession number
MA 2909.2
Creator
Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820.
Display Date
1802 Feb. 1.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Douglas C. Ewing, 1972.
Description
1 item (7 p.) ; 25 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
Part of a collection of letters from Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, to Colonel Frederick Augustus Wetherall. Items in the collection are described in separate records; see MA 2909 for details.
With trace of a seal.
Part of a collection of letters from Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, to Colonel Frederick Augustus Wetherall. Items in the collection are described in separate records; see MA 2909 for details.
With trace of a seal.
Summary
Mentioning bills; noting that "the fencible and provincial Corps in North American [may] be disbanded," and promising to act on Wetherall's "very judicious suggestion relative to the recruits that might be obtained from them"; commenting on military personnel in British North America; discussing the "transfers of the Men from the Fusiliers to the Royals"; sending Madame de Laurent's "kindest acknowledgments"; expressing their concern about Mrs. Wetherall's poor health.
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