BIB_ID
408784
Accession number
MA 9192
Creator
George, Prince, Duke of Cambridge, 1819-1904.
Display Date
1862 August 15.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.3 x 11.6 cm + envelope
Notes
The place of writing is given as "[Heath] Lodge." Based on the envelope, it appears that George, Duke of Cambridge, wrote the letter at the Horse Guards in London.
Envelope with seal: "Immediate. / Colonel / Sir Alfred Horsford F.C.B. / Cambridge. Horse Guards."
Envelope with seal: "Immediate. / Colonel / Sir Alfred Horsford F.C.B. / Cambridge. Horse Guards."
Summary
Writing that "[t]he weather looks so doubtful & the glass is still so low that I think it better to give up going to Aldershot tomorrow"; asking Horsford to send a telegraph to Aldershot with the news and to send a letter back by bearer to him to confirm he has received this message.
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