BIB_ID
459120
Accession number
MA 14909.19
Creator
Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820, sender.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (6 pages) ; 24.8 x 20.2 cm
Notes
Written from Kensington Palace.
Docketed.
Thomas Dodd was an aide-de-camp and secretary to Edward. James Willoughby Gordon (1772-1851) was an aide-de-camp and secretary to Edward and later longtime British Army quartermaster-general.
George Isham Parkyns (circa 1750-circa 1820) "proposed to prepare a history of the British Provinces of North America to be illustrated by his own sketches [...] Parkyns completed a number of sketches of scenes in and near Halifax in 1801, but his proposed history never appeared" (C. Bruce Fergusson, The Public Archives of Nova Scotia, Acadiensis [vol. 2 no. 1, Autumn 1972], p. 72).
"On the 4 February [1801], the stables, coach houses and offices at Sir John Wentworth's villa, the 'Lodge,' were burned" (Beamish Murdoch, A History of Nova-Scotia, vol. 3 [Halifax: James Barnes, 1867], p. 204).
Referenced enclosure not present. See also MA 14909.20.
Part of a collection of letters from Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, to Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet (MA 14909).
Docketed.
Thomas Dodd was an aide-de-camp and secretary to Edward. James Willoughby Gordon (1772-1851) was an aide-de-camp and secretary to Edward and later longtime British Army quartermaster-general.
George Isham Parkyns (circa 1750-circa 1820) "proposed to prepare a history of the British Provinces of North America to be illustrated by his own sketches [...] Parkyns completed a number of sketches of scenes in and near Halifax in 1801, but his proposed history never appeared" (C. Bruce Fergusson, The Public Archives of Nova Scotia, Acadiensis [vol. 2 no. 1, Autumn 1972], p. 72).
"On the 4 February [1801], the stables, coach houses and offices at Sir John Wentworth's villa, the 'Lodge,' were burned" (Beamish Murdoch, A History of Nova-Scotia, vol. 3 [Halifax: James Barnes, 1867], p. 204).
Referenced enclosure not present. See also MA 14909.20.
Part of a collection of letters from Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, to Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet (MA 14909).
Provenance
Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Acknowledging receipt of April 10 letter on May 18; mentioning two particular men in connection to the Lodge, who if not departed from Halifax by receipt of this letter, should be put into the care of Captain Dodd; informing that Captain Dodd will receive orders to go to England immediately during the absence of Lt. Col. Gordon, who has been promoted into the 85th Regiment; expressing curiosity at seeing attempt of Mr. Parkyns's at a history of Nova Scotia and allowing himself to be its dedicatee; referring to uncertain possibility of visiting North America again and not turning his thoughts to leaving England until the end of his present leave of absence; conveying sympathy for a fire at the Lodge; enclosing a report from a particular person that justifies an opinion regarding the fire and one John Fitzgerald, "against whom I have so often warned you", as "the person to whom the mischief is to be ascribed"; suggesting particular renovations to the grounds of the Lodge; expressing sympathy at hearing "so bad an account of Lady Wentworth's health"; acknowledging reports in early spring of the king's poor health and informing now of the king's health being "so thoroughly re-established" that the king plans on visiting Weymouth on June 09; conveying good wishes of Madame de St. Laurent.
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