BIB_ID
81539
Accession number
MA 715.1-58
Display Date
1820-1831.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 v. (58 items), bound ; 26 cm
Notes
Cover title: "Record of efforts made on behalf of the persecuted Queen Caroline ... by the inhabitants of Hammersmith, and other friends; together with the catalogue of the sale of the Queen's mansion and valuable effects, after her death."
Provenance
James Gomme (bookplate); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson, 1910.
Summary
A collection of 58 letters related to Queen Caroline's return to England in 1820 and efforts by the inhabitants of Hammersmith to erect a monument in her honor after her death in 1821. Letters are described in 58 individual records (MA 715.1-58).
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