BIB_ID
425643
Accession number
MA 3498.211
Creator
Munster, George Augustus Frederick FitzClarence, Earl of, 1794-1842.
Display Date
Windsor, England, 1837 June 22.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1980.
Description
1 item (5 pages, with address) ; 18.7 x 11.3 and 22.5 x 18.5 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal, postmark and frank to "The Hon'ble / Mrs. Dawson Damer / 6 Tilney St / Park Lane / London / Munster."
Provenance
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1980.
Summary
Discussing arrangements following the death of his father; saying "I have written to Lord Melbourne asking leave to proceed to Brighton - and do hope I may get away on Saturday night or Sunday morning - not only because I am of no use here - but I am anxious about Lady Munster who feels terribly the King's death - I did not think she could have written such a letter as I have received from her - Besides what the King has given us - there is about £2000, which comes to each - and you have no idea, after I learned the contents of the Will - which I declined hearing read - how my Family have suffered - I know how matters stood - but they all clung to the impossibility of the truth & from what I can learn - even in comparison with myself - from the foolish extravagance - worse off than I could have supposed - I think some of them will be almost beggars - I am told the Funeral is to be on the 5th or 6 of July - the sooner the better - to get over this sad Scene & truly disagreable situation - The Duke of Sussex has written me a kind Letter as has Lady Cis - I have a better amusement in reading the Papers & contrasting this sad Palace with all passing in London - Seven years ago - it was the reverse - how transient is all & everything and when I reflect on Princess Victoria['s[ age & never having had any childish [illegible] & poor Princess Charlotte's Fate - I at this distance can reflect on how soon the prospects may be blighted & destroyed - Poor Lady Munster writes again in perfect despair & says take care of the Vaults, which I hope I shall have no occasion to visit - the only time I was in them was with the King, my Father, to see the Duke of Yorks body placed into its proper position - They have been opened twice since for George the 4th and the Duke of Gloucester - on whom will they next open their Jaws? Lord Egremont had gone away, giving out He was coming back. What can be done about Mrs. Fitzherbert's house - pray let me know when the House is to be sold."
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