BIB_ID
413538
Accession number
MA 1581.7
Creator
Ashburnham, George Ashburnham, Earl of, 1760-1830.
Display Date
London, 1810 January 28.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 23 x 18.8 cm
Notes
Ashburnham gives the place of writing at the end of the letter as Berkeley Square, located in London.
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 (Ashburnham) 2.
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 (Ashburnham) 2.
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Thanking Beaumont for a letter; writing "I never could doubt of your commiseration & sympathy in the sorrows of one, who is conscious of being not wholly undeserving of some share of your esteem, -- of some place in your friendship, -- however numerous his competitors, -- however powerful their claims"; telling Beaumont that he has been in town for ten days, but that he has seen none of Beaumont's friends; sending news of his father John Ashburnham and saying that he "seems now likely to hold out much longer, than could be expected a week ago"; adding "I have the satisfaction of hearing him say repeatedly in the course of every day, that he has not an uneasy or uncomfortable sensation about him: & also of knowing that in this assurance there is no concealment or reserve"; discussing the nature of his father's longstanding "Disease" and his recent illness: "Old Age has taken advantage of this feeble blow, & will not let him get up again. There is no complaint now but Debility. 'Senectus ipsa est morbus'"; saying that because his wife Charlotte Ashburnham has so recently written to Margaret Beaumont, he will only repeat their "united best regards to you both."
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