BIB_ID
414644
Accession number
MA 1581.205
Creator
Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841.
Display Date
London, England, 1810 December 17.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1959.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 23.3 x 18.9 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 1581.1-297).
This letter formerly identified as MA 1581 (Wilkie) 12.
Address panel with postmarks and seal to "Sir George Beaumont Bart / Dunmow / Essex."
This letter formerly identified as MA 1581 (Wilkie) 12.
Address panel with postmarks and seal to "Sir George Beaumont Bart / Dunmow / Essex."
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Thanking him for the £100 given to him when he left Dunmow; saying that it "...so far exceeds any value the picture may have for which you intend it as a compensation, that in justice to your goodness I cannot help attributing it in a great degree to your commiseration for the weak and unfortunate condition to which my illness has reduced me; but in whatever light you may wish it to be considered you have by this and your kindness to me at Dunmow, overpowered me more with the sense of obligation than the warmest thanks can express, or than any effort of gratitude can ever be able to repay. The utmost I can do is to assure you at present that the kindness I have all along experienced since I had first the honor of being known to you, has made an impression which nothing I hope can ever eradicate from my mind;" saying that he had arrived safely back in London and giving him his new address as No. 4 Manor Terrace, Kings Road, Chelsea; adding "I hope you will get on to your satisfaction in the subject you were about to begin of Conway Castle. If you do I am sure the sentiment which the present disposition of light and shadow gives to it will be very greatly admired in London;" asking to be remembered to Lady Beaumont.
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