BIB_ID
425744
Accession number
MA 3498.229
Creator
Munster, George Augustus Frederick FitzClarence, Earl of, 1794-1842.
Display Date
Brighton, England, 1837 October 12.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1980.
Description
1 item (8 pages) ; 17.6 x 11.1 cm + envelope
Notes
Written on mourning stationery.
Mourning envelope with seal and postmark to "The Hon'ble / Mrs. Dawson Damer / Came House / Dorchester / Dorsetshire / Munster."
Mourning envelope with seal and postmark to "The Hon'ble / Mrs. Dawson Damer / Came House / Dorchester / Dorsetshire / Munster."
Provenance
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1980.
Summary
Relating details of the Queen's time in Brighton and discussing his state of depression; saying "Certainly, the Whigs are keeping the little Queen all to themselves, as with the exception of the Admiral...The Queen however gets out riding & even walks on the Esplanade tho' I have not seen her, do the last - on Horseback she looks like a girl of Ten Years old - her legs are in comparison much larger than the upper part of her person & when she sits she dwindles to the third of her height - Melbourne is here and we are told, is awkwardly situated with his Cabinet - very determined to be conservative - while the others - the Majority, are for going with the Radicals - If so, there will be an explosion & I am told, John Russell hopes to be Premier - of the Ultras - They have given the arrangement of the Civil List to Duncannon - about as bad a person as possible - I heard from the Duke of Gloucester yesterday - The Queen Dowager has had a bad cold & had a [illegible] on her Chest - but not so ill as to postpone her intended departure for Hastings & Prince Augustus goes to Bushy today to accompany her;" relating social news and discussing a sale that her husband will attend with one of the items in the sale being the handkerchief of King Charles; referring to his memories of a royal handkerchief and saying "It has cost me more sighs & griefs than there were threads in its Texture - I only wonder, how we all live on - after the hopes & fallacies of youth are at an end - but for the prospect of fulfilling duties to Children.. for preserving them from harm - I have no wish to linger here - having no prospect of comfort, much less happiness. The insipidity of every day life is wearisome.. and if the future be like the past - and they say Life, is like drinking a cup of spring water, muddier as you reach the bottom - how much worse it will be? Disappoints & negatives have certainly outnumbered the Reverse - to the present time & the brief period of possibility, of restoration in fact passing away - I am utterly listless of the present, regret the past & am without hope for the future - But, all this is irrelevant to all but a train of thought [illegible] by Charles handkerchief & I beg you will forgive me - and this - is one of the few certainties of life - I have but to act it to reverse it - from you my kind Friend."
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