BIB_ID
426017
Accession number
MA 3498.269
Creator
Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820.
Display Date
London, England, 1808 November 1.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1980.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 19.4 x 12.5 cm
Notes
It is uncertain whether this letter is in the autograph of the Duke of Kent.
The year of writing is not provided however the inventory of the collection dates it to 1808.
Written from "Castle Hill Sunday Aft'n / 4 oclock. Nov. 1st."
Detached address panel with seal to "Mrs. Fitzherbert / Parsons Green / K&S."
The year of writing is not provided however the inventory of the collection dates it to 1808.
Written from "Castle Hill Sunday Aft'n / 4 oclock. Nov. 1st."
Detached address panel with seal to "Mrs. Fitzherbert / Parsons Green / K&S."
Provenance
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1980.
Summary
Saying he will be leaving for Windsor in the morning and would like to call on her that evening at six o'clock "...for fear is missing you, were I to defer my visit till Saturday; only have the goodness, if the P -- should chance to be with you, to bid your servant meet me on the road between Hammersmith Church and Fulham papery by the Gate of Brandenburgh House and turn me back; I shall be in the little Phaeton I shewed you the other day so that he cannot mistake me."
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