BIB_ID
459339
Accession number
MA 14909.60
Creator
Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820, sender.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 24.9 x 20.4 cm
Notes
Written from Kensington Palace.
Presumably the recently departed friend is Lady Frances, Wentworth's wife who died in February 1813 (see MA 14909.59).
Part of a collection of letters from Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, to Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet (MA 14909).
Presumably the recently departed friend is Lady Frances, Wentworth's wife who died in February 1813 (see MA 14909.59).
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
Informing Wentworth of £2,000 to be paid to him from the Treasury for expenses he incurred as lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia; alluding to his and Madame de St. Laurent's feelings for a deceased female friend ("which endeared her to us"); mentioning in a post-script "our Nova Scotia friends".
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