BIB_ID
425694
Accession number
MA 3498.218
Creator
Munster, George Augustus Frederick FitzClarence, Earl of, 1794-1842.
Display Date
Brighton, England, 1837 August 15.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1980.
Description
1 item (10 pages) ; 18.5 x 11.4 cm
Notes
Date and place of writing from published letter cited below.
Written on mourning stationery.
Written on mourning stationery.
Provenance
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1980.
Summary
Relating news of the visit of the Duke de Nemours and the activities surrounding it, saying the Queen wrote to him of his reappointment and relating news of mutual friends; apologizing for all the pain the trouble he may have caused her over the past 7 or 8 years; adding "I am considering what I can give your brother George of the late King's as he with much good feeling offered me the Robes of the Thistle. The two Valets sent me the other day one, the spurs he last wore, a chivalrous present and the latter (what do you think?) the last Razor with which he was shaved. Such a present would (all sharp instruments very ominous as Gifts without exchange of a sixpence) have earlier been a reason for all subsequent misfortunes. I shall take care never to present you with a knife, not even a paper one."
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