BIB_ID
378616
Accession number
MA 2909.3
Creator
Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820.
Display Date
1802 Mar. 14.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Douglas C. Ewing, 1972.
Description
1 item (10 p.) ; 23.1 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.
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.
Summary
Acknowledging receipt of his last letter and its enclosures; commenting on the probability that a family's petition for money will be successful; promising to recommend a man at Wetherall's request, but informing him that he is also "under a prior promise" to someone else; discussing military personnel; commenting on the lack of a peace treaty, and noting that things should be settled soon because "categorical instructions have been certainly sent to Lord Cornwallis to bring the matter to issue at once"; remarking that he won't be in North America this year "unless indeed the War should be renewed and it should expressly be requested of [him] to go out"; noting that he hopes their "old friend [Charles] O'Hara chuses to make a vacancy for [him] at Gibraltar" so he doesn't have to return to North America.
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