BIB_ID
426056
Accession number
MA 3498.275
Creator
Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820.
Display Date
London, England, 1810 May 31.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1980.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.4 x 11.7 cm
Notes
Year of writing inferred from the contents of the postscript.
It is uncertain whether this letter is in the autograph of the Duke of Kent.
Written from "Castle Hill Lodge / Thursday Evening / 1/2 past 6 / May 31st."
Detached address leaf with seal to "Mrs. Fitzherbert / Tilney Street / K&S."
The "horrid scene" to which the Duke of Kent refers was the apparent attempt to murder the Duke of Cumberland in which one of the Duke's valets, Joseph Sellis, was found dead. The attack on the Duke happened in the early hours of May 31, 1810.
It is uncertain whether this letter is in the autograph of the Duke of Kent.
Written from "Castle Hill Lodge / Thursday Evening / 1/2 past 6 / May 31st."
Detached address leaf with seal to "Mrs. Fitzherbert / Tilney Street / K&S."
The "horrid scene" to which the Duke of Kent refers was the apparent attempt to murder the Duke of Cumberland in which one of the Duke's valets, Joseph Sellis, was found dead. The attack on the Duke happened in the early hours of May 31, 1810.
Provenance
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1980.
Summary
Saying that he will call on her at Tilney Street between 12 and 1 on Saturday; adding, in a postscript, "The horrid scene I have just been witnessing in Cleveland Row must plead my apology for the inaccuracy and brevity of this Epistle.
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