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Letter from William Smith, Bury, to Sir George Beaumont, 1815 June 8 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
414538
Accession number
MA 1581.179
Creator
Smith, William, 1730-1819.
Display Date
Bury St. Edmunds, England, 1815 June 8.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1959.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 23.0 x 18.8 cm
Notes
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. See collection-level record for more information (MA 1581.1-300).
This letter was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Smith) 2.
Address panel with postmarks and fragments of a seal to "Sir George Beaumont / Grosvenor Square / London."
The letter is dated "Thursday morn." The postmark is June 9, 1815.
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Regretting he cannot come to London nor can he accept an invitation from Mr. and Mrs. Coutts; relating news he heard of the robbery of Mr. Coutts' daughter, Lady Bute, as she was traveling from Nice to the Alps; discussing the gift to [Edmund] Kean of 500£ and commenting on Kean's conduct and the orders Kean has given for the money he received to be settled on his wife and children.