BIB_ID
407088
Accession number
MA 9134
Creator
Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844.
Display Date
1837 February 21.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 10.9 x 9.1 cm
Notes
Burdett gives the place of writing as "St. James's Place." Burdett lived at number 25, St. James's Place, from 1820 to 1844.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of Alexis Brialmont, History of the life of Arthur, duke of Wellington (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858-1860); PML 7901-7916; volume VIII, page 221.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of Alexis Brialmont, History of the life of Arthur, duke of Wellington (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858-1860); PML 7901-7916; volume VIII, page 221.
Summary
Explaining his absence from a social engagement; writing that the "unlucky scrape of my Brothers son, who is now in a sad way from shame, & sorrow" had made him "quite unfit for company"; adding that he has "sent a line to Lord Durham explaining my seeming neglect."
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