BIB_ID
425765
Accession number
MA 3498.234
Creator
Munster, George Augustus Frederick FitzClarence, Earl of, 1794-1842.
Display Date
London, England, 1838 May 9.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1980.
Description
1 item (5 pages, with address) ; 18.7 x 11.3 and 22.7 x 18.5 cm
Notes
There is a penciled note on one side of the address leaf, in the hand of Constance Dawson-Damer, Mrs. Damer's youngest child, "Description of my Parents happy family party."
Place and date of writing from postmark.
Detached address leaf with fragments of a seal and postmarks to "The Hon'ble / Mrs. D. Damer / Broom Villa / Fulham."
Place and date of writing from postmark.
Detached address leaf with fragments of a seal and postmarks to "The Hon'ble / Mrs. D. Damer / Broom Villa / Fulham."
Provenance
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1980.
Summary
Expressing his regret that he could not join her family party at the Broom Villa and discussing his sadness; saying with how much envy he watched everyone on the lawn and how much he realized that he was a stranger to good spirits and laughter; saying "Spirits, are not like the contagion of the Scarlet Fever, to be caught - or I would put up with the last for a chance of the first...I am a Bird of ill omen & must have been cradled by a screech owl and been [illegible] by a Vulture - I am sure the Harpies were at my Christening and the Fates [illegible] cross when then shewn my thread of existence - I wished they had clipped it when I went up the Hill at Toulouse on Easter Sunday 1814 - That I do wish, from my soul - what a deal of trouble I should have saved to others & misery to myself...What nonsense I have written - but I am out of sorts - with all but the Moon - Is it in hopes she will use her influence on me? I wonder if I could forget myself - if she qualified me for Bedlam - If so I dont care how soon I sign myself / your devoted Lunatic / M."
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