BIB_ID
378686
Accession number
MA 2909.7
Creator
Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820.
Display Date
1802 Oct. 23.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Douglas C. Ewing, 1972.
Description
1 item (14 p.) ; 25.5 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.
Watermark: Post-horn in an escutcheon surmounted by a crown, "G.R. 1794" below.
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.
Watermark: Post-horn in an escutcheon surmounted by a crown, "G.R. 1794" below.
Summary
Reporting that Parsonage and Robinson arrived at Gibraltar; commenting on a man named Hardyman who serves under him; informing him that he "received a notification from Mr. Addington of the Treasury having determined not to grant [the Duke of Kent] any Compensation for [his] losses," but adding that he still "retain[s] some hopes of redress as far as that claim goes"; noting that his pay amounts to about £7000 per annum; speculating that it will "take three years from the present time before [he] can get clear of [his] debts"; mentioning that Dr. North and Sir Thomas Dyer are coming to Gibraltar; asking him to remember him to Sir John and Lady Wentworth; expressing approval at what Wetherall has done with Dalton and hoping Dalton will arrive in Gibraltar shortly.
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