BIB_ID
459340
Accession number
MA 14909.61
Creator
Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820, sender.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (5 pages) ; 25.1 x 20 cm
Notes
Written from Kensington Palace.
With address panel: "Sir Jno Wentworth Bt. / Halifax / Nova Scotia".
"Cochran" may be William Cochran (1751-1820), member of the House of Assembly for Halifax Township.
"Uniacke" is probably Richard John Uniacke (1753-1830), Nova Scotian lawyer and politician, or a relation thereof.
The "deeply afflicting subject" is presumably the death of Sir John's wife, Lady Frances, in early 1813.
Part of a collection of letters from Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, to Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet (MA 14909).
With address panel: "Sir Jno Wentworth Bt. / Halifax / Nova Scotia".
"Cochran" may be William Cochran (1751-1820), member of the House of Assembly for Halifax Township.
"Uniacke" is probably Richard John Uniacke (1753-1830), Nova Scotian lawyer and politician, or a relation thereof.
The "deeply afflicting subject" is presumably the death of Sir John's wife, Lady Frances, in early 1813.
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 letters of September 08 on October 10 and of May 26 "at the end of June"; acknowledging Wentworth may be "detained" for a period in Nova Scotia with reference to the "iniquitous project" of "Mess. Cochran and Uniacke" and "the new trial they have applied for"; referring to "the deeply afflicting subject" of Wentworth's May 26 letter and commiserating with "the severe blow [...] it pleased Providence to inflict upon you"; expressing regards of himself and Madame de St. Laurent; extending invitation to stay with them at Castle Hill Lodge, with Wentworth's son ("whose shyness, we hope, will then wear off"); speaking of the Prince's Lodge in Halifax; referring to dealings with the Treasury on Wentworth's behalf; mentioning replacement of General Smyth (due to health) by "our friend" Sir Thomas Saumarez.
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