Record ID:
375429
Accession number:
MA 755.23
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description:
1 item (3 p.) ; 24.6 cm
Notes:
On stationery with an embossed border.
Part of a collection of letters, documents, and engravings related to George IV, Queen Caroline, and Princess Charlotte. See main record for MA 755 for details.
Summary:
Writing, "I assure you I love you very dearly for I know a great deal about you from Lady Elgin who wishes me to resemble you in everything thing"; hoping she will go to Windsor soon to see her grandparents [George III and Queen Charlotte]; noting, "I am much obliged to you for sending me so many pretty things and wish you and the Elector [Frederick I, King of Württemberg] were here and would bring my cousin Princess Theresa with you."
Provenance:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1911.
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