BIB_ID
379282
Accession number
MA 2909.19
Creator
Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820.
Display Date
1803 Oct. 31.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Douglas C. Ewing, 1972.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 34.3 cm
Notes
Docketed.
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: Britannia seated with scepter and shield in an oval surmounted by a crown, initials "P.B." beneath.
Watermark: scroll device and "1799."
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: Britannia seated with scepter and shield in an oval surmounted by a crown, initials "P.B." beneath.
Watermark: scroll device and "1799."
Summary
Discussing military appointments; writing that he will choose for uniforms [for Wetherall's men] "every thing agreeable to [Wetherall's] wishes, and in the choice shall confine [him]self to what is most simple and neat, and to what will put [Wetherall's] officers to the least possible expense"; thanking him for selecting Mr. Ridge to be his agent; sending him "General [William] Harcourt's answer relative to [Wetherall's] second son" and noting that the boy "will be received into the Academy the moment he has completed his thirteenth year; recommending that Wetherall write to General Harcourt to thank him; expressing concern about Lady [John] Wentworth's health.
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