Record ID:
426138
Accession number:
MA 3498.296
Credit:
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1980.
Description:
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 19.7 x 12.2 cm
Notes:
Written in the third person.
The Comte de Beaujolais was the brother of Louis Philippe.
Two detached address leaves with seals and one wrapper with fragments of a seal. One address leaf has the seal of Louis Philippe and appears to be in his hand to "Mrs. Fitzherbert / &c - &c - &c--." The second address leaf has the heraldic seal of the French Royal Arms of Colonial Powers and is addressed in an unknown hand "Mrs. Fitzherbert, / Tilney Street." The wrapper says "Letter from / Duke of Orleans to Mrs. Fitzherbert."
Summary:
Enclosing a letter from Major Bloomfield to Count Beaujolais "...from which he inferred it was more respectful to the Prince to remain silent on that subject."
Provenance:
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1980.
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