Identity area
Reference code
Clarkson/Folder 6/Doc 169
Unique identifier
GB 275 Clarkson/Folder 6/Doc 169
Title
Autograph letter, signed, (Postscript to the Item 168), in French, from General Vincent [Louis Charles Marie, Baron de, b. 1793?] to Thomas Clarkson, from Paris
Date(s)
- 20 October 1821 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1p paper
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Bought from R. Myers & Co., 1949
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Vincent has just read in the Paris Gazettes that the former Queen of Haiti and her two daughters are at present at Playford Hall, and he considers it typically worthy of Clarkson to have discharged a debt which lies rather more at the door of a government [i.e. than at that of a private individual]. He hopes that his letter (i.e. the one following) finds them still at Playford, and will be glad to learn that they receive with especial grace ('avec quelque distinction') his protestations of devotion.