BIB_ID
408880
Accession number
MA 9201
Creator
Camden, John Jeffreys Pratt, Marquis of, 1759-1840
Display Date
1817 September 12.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 23.6 x 18.6 cm
Notes
Written in the third person.
Bayham Abbey was the family estate of the Camdens. It became the Marquis of Camden's principal residence after 1805.
Docketed twice in two different hands.
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 1.
Bayham Abbey was the family estate of the Camdens. It became the Marquis of Camden's principal residence after 1805.
Docketed twice in two different hands.
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 1.
Summary
Saying that he had been informed that the Duke of Cumberland had inquired after him when he came to Bayham Abbey the previous Tuesday; sending his respects to the duke and taking "the Liberty of leaving this Letter to acknowledge his Royal Highness's Condescension"; lamenting that he was not present to show the duke around the "Grounds & Woods"; adding that he has ordered the gamekeeper "to carry over some Game to Tunbridge Wells for his Royal Highness's Table & some Venison from Wilderness Park."
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