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Letter from William Spencer Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire, Paris, to Catherine Grace Frances Gore, 1847 April 23 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
439558
Accession number
MA 14345.29
Creator
Devonshire, William Spencer Cavendish, Duke of, 1790-1858, sender.
Display Date
Paris, France, 1847 April 23
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.2 x 11.4 cm
Notes
Written on printed stationery with coronet and monogram at head.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Expressing his distress and sympathy at learning of her daughter's illness and suggesting that the baths at Gastein "would restore the use of her limbs" and remarking "What a pity that I did not take her there! when she in joke suggested that I should do so."; adding that "Her present is the best page in an album of mine" and that he enjoyed showing it to the Normanby's the day before; informing her that "Romilly whom you so kindly received is become private secretary to the Embassy", and mentioning the death of a mutual acquaintance.