BIB_ID
414751
Accession number
MA 1581.220
Creator
Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841.
Display Date
London, England, 1825 July 20.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1959.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 22.8 x 18.5 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) 27.
Address panel with postmarks and seal to "Sir George Beaumont Bart / Coleorton Hall / Ashby de la Zouch."
Written from "7 Terrace Kensington London."
This letter formerly identified as MA 1581 (Wilkie) 27.
Address panel with postmarks and seal to "Sir George Beaumont Bart / Coleorton Hall / Ashby de la Zouch."
Written from "7 Terrace Kensington London."
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Thanking him for the gift of £100; saying "This you present to me with so much delicacy that I know not how I can refuse it, as the gift therefore (however undeserved) of one of my earliest and best friends - I accept of it with warmest thanks, and although my present infirmities prevent me attempting to express in so suitable a manner the feelings which this with the kind expressions in your letter suggest to me[.] Be assured after so many depressing events this mark of your friendship cheers me much and will I hope be the forerunner as your kindness was on a former occasion, of better health and better times;" sending his regards to Lady Beaumont.
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