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Letter from Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, London, to Maria Fitzherbert, 1809 May 6 : manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
426023
Accession number
MA 3498.271
Creator
Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820.
Display Date
London, England, 1809 May 6.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1980.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 19.0 x 12.3 cm
Notes
It is uncertain whether this letter is in the autograph of the Duke of Kent.
Written from Castle Hill.
Detached address leaf with fragments of a seal to "Mrs. Fitzherbert / Tylney Street / Kent and Strathearn."
Provenance
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1980.
Summary
Arranging to call on her at Tilney Street "...on Wednesday between 3 & 4, and therefore unless you send me a counterorder, you may depend on my punctuality. I will now only add that no time, or distance can ever alter the warm interest I ever must take in your welfare, or the sentiments of friendship and attachment, with which I shall ever be proud;" adding, in a postscript, Pray excuse all inaccuracies, as I have been twice interrupted, while writing this."