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Letter from John James Hamilton, Marquess of Abercorn, place not identified, to Sir George Beaumont, 1808 January 28 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
413497
Accession number
MA 1581.1
Creator
Abercorn, John James Hamilton, Marquess of, 1756-1818.
Display Date
Place not identified, 1808 January 28.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 19.8 x 12.5 cm
Notes
Signed "Abercorn."
This letter is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall, and to other members of the Beaumont family.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Abercorn) 1.
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Thanking Beaumont for his congratulations (possibly offered on the election of Abercorn's son James Hamilton as M.P. for Liskeard); writing "You have never failed in kindness in the course of our five & twenty years friendship, & under such circumstances I have only to lament that we see so little of each other"; mentioning the success of his son's "first attempt"; adding that he hopes they will soon see each other "in Town" and sending his regards to Lady Beaumont.