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Letter from Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, Halifax, to Frederick Augustus Wetherall, 1797 April 9 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
459013
Accession number
MA 14909.8
Creator
Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820, sender.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 32.6 x 20 cm
Notes
Signed "Edward Lt G Command. &c".
Written from "Lodge," i.e. Prince's Lodge in Halifax.
With intact seal with design and address panel to: "Lt Col Wetherall / Dept. Adjutant General".
Docketed.
Part of a collection of letters from Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, to Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet (MA 14909).
Enclosure: docketed.
Enclosure: "Clark[e]" is spelled variously throughout the transcription.
Enclosure: G.H. Monk is probably George Henry Monk, who served as a major in the Royal Nova Scotia Regiment and later as a judge (See Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society, vol. XX [Halifax, 1921], p. 159).
Provenance
Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Informing him that he has opened a letter "just received" from Windsor and addressed to Lt. Col. Wetherall; directing Wetherall to "communicate it" to Wentworth "instantly"; noting that, if Wentworth deems a stronger force "expedient", Lieutenant Clarke's detachment currently bound for Annapolis may tomorrow march "to relieve Muller's party at Horton & tarry there, before they proceed on to Annapolis".