| Description | Written from Berlin, to Pope's Villa, Twickenham.
Trust in his forgiveness for the long silence, knowing he cannot forget his past kindness: being glad to hear of his and Lady Howe's good health: his asking Mr de Graefe for his successful remedy cure of people with the "tic": their happiness at father being among them and well: the prince's remembrance to his sons Wathen and the clergyman: in his parish in Warwick hope of his being able to help Mrs Ford's son obtain a place: their actually being at Schonhausen, and his happiness to be there again: his being only an inch and a half shorter than father, and meaning to sport a long tail: the Empress of Russia being due there soon: best wishes from his brothers [? meaning cousins], mother and Mrs Ford among others.
Sheet, with 4 pages of text.
[Originally ascribed to Prince George of Cambridge, but content and handwriting means it is more likley to have been written by and for Prince George of Cumberland.] |