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Auction: 323 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1472

George IV. King of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover (1820-1830). ALS. 2 pages. 4vo. February 7, 1810. To Lady Keith. Written a year before he would become Prince Regent, due to his father's mental illness.

I really am so ashamed at my seeming neglect, in having so long delayed answering your most kind… note, that I really know not what to say in mitigation of my crime, or what apology to make to you: but the plain truth my dear friend is, that I have for the last three or four days been overwhelmed with a quantity of business of considerable importance to myself which for the time, left…everything else out of my brain. I hope that I need hardly add, how happy I shall be to obey your kind summons for Saturday…I am at all times with the highest regard, Dear Lady Keith, our most sincere friend and humble Servant." Signed "George R."

Estimate
$400 to $600