| Description | Wish of his sister, the Duchess of Gloucester, to consult him on her glasses, asking him to call on her at Gloucester House: his desire "to say every thing that is kind and proper" to Baroness Howe as the daughter of the Earl who commanded the King's Fleet 34 years ago that day: his attendance at divine service at the Royal Hospital, Greenwich, with those who served with Earl Howe on that day.
[Sun] 1 June 1828.
Sheet, with 1½ pages of text, endorsed "Letter's Dukes of Clarence & Cumberland".
[On 1 June 1794, Admiral Richard Howe had commanded the British Fleet in action against the French Atlantic Fleet at the Third Battle of Ushant, which became more commonly known as the Glorious First of June, in which Howe won a great tactical victory, albeit of little lasting strategic significance.] |