ARTHUR WELLESLEY, 1ST DUKE OF WELLINGTON (1769-1852)

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ARTHUR WELLESLEY, 1ST DUKE OF WELLINGTON (1769-1852)
One-page autograph letter, signed 'Wellington', from London, 29 June 1841 '½ past 4', 8°, to B. Wyatt Esq., complaining about the chimney in the Harness Room at Apsley House which was apparently smoking or failing to draw properly, with an autograph envelope, initialled with red wax seal, mounted in common frame (unexamined out of frame).

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This letter forms part of a long correspondence between Wellington and Benjamin Wyatt (1775-c.1855), the architect employed both at Apsley House and Stratfield Saye. Despite knowing each other for several years, they were evidently not on good terms this time over an argument whereby Wyatt's foreman was accused of stealing clothes from one of the footmen's locked boxes.

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