BIB_ID
439763
Accession number
MA 14345.71
Creator
Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863, sender.
Display Date
Calne, England, 1859? January 21
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.3 x 11.2 cm
Notes
Paper watermarked "1857".
Written on light blue embossed letterhead stationery from "Bowood / Calne / Wilts."
Gore's "The memoirs of a peeress" was originally published in two volumes in 1837; the copy referred to here was probably the later revised edition issued in 859.
Written on light blue embossed letterhead stationery from "Bowood / Calne / Wilts."
Gore's "The memoirs of a peeress" was originally published in two volumes in 1837; the copy referred to here was probably the later revised edition issued in 859.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Informing her that he has sent her a basket of woodcocks; thanking her for sending him a copy of her "The memoirs of a peeress", and noting that he is "no bad judge" of her account of the last days of Charles J. Fox, having himself been "admitted frequently to his bedside, during his last fatal illness at York House & at Chiswick."
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