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

Record ID: 
293064
Accession number: 
MA 140.20
Author: 
Sutherland, Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower, Duchess of, 1806-1868.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description: 
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.6 cm
Notes: 

Written on mourning stationery with a scroll and crown printed at the top.
The letter is dated "Thursday"; 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: 

Saying she is sorry she missed his "kind visit."

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