Autograph letter signed with initials : Bath, to William Augustus Conway, 1820 [June] 9.

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Autograph letter signed with initials : Bath, to William Augustus Conway, 1820 [June] 9.

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Describing her "terrors" for Conway's safety; mentioning her plan to travel to the "Southernmost -- and the most Western Point of England" later in the summer; chiding him for not writing to her more often; telling him she has a "Commission of peculiar Delicacy to entrust" him with; mentioning Samuel Johnson and a portrait of Sir James Fellowes.

1 item (4 p., with address) ; 24.3 cm

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7968790

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