Autograph letter signed : Chiswick [House, London], to Cyrus W. Field, [186-].

Record ID: 
293051
Accession number: 
MA 140.17
Author: 
Sutherland, Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower, Duchess of, 1806-1868.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description: 
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.9 cm
Notes: 

Written on mourning stationery with a scroll and crown printed at the top.
The letter is dated "Saturday," but the mourning stationery suggests that it may have been written after the Duke of Sutherland's death in 1861.
Part of a large collection of letters to Cyrus Field and documents related to the transatlantic telegraph cable. Items in the collection are described in separate records; see MA 140 for more information.

Summary: 

Inviting him to dine.

Provenance: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the New York Co-operative Society, 1909.