Autograph letter : London, to an unidentified recipient [possibly Catherine Hutton], 1845 June 6.

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Autograph letter : London, to an unidentified recipient [possibly Catherine Hutton], 1845 June 6.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/670428089

Thanking her for the engraving and purse she sent him; discussing his "infirmity" and "small stock of strength"; mentioning the recent rejection of his "claim to succeed to the peerages of [his] father" [Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex]; giving details of his mother's decision to adopt an incognito [d'Ameland] after George III demanded that she stop calling herself by her husband's title (because their marriage had been declared invalid under the terms of the Royal Marriages Act).

1 item (4 p.) ; 22.9 cm

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7964520

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