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Dundas, David, Sir, Bart, 1749-1826 to James Dundas

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02549.31 Author/Creator: Dundas, David, Sir, Bart, 1749-1826 Place Written: Richmond, England Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 21 April 1787 Pagination: 3 p. ; 22.5 x 18.5 cm. Order a Copy

Asks for correspondence and news about their father's health. Makes a very cryptic comment: "I think the Young Ladies should erect a Pillar in honor of Dr Willis...He has at last out generalled the London Doctors. but as it is a delicate subject to touch upon. I should say no more of it at present only that I am at this moment from some fortuitous circumstances placed in one of the most singular situations ever Man was. & which some Thirty or Forty years hence you & I may talk over." Comments on a letter from George and an exhibition he did not care for.

Dundas, David, Sir, Bart, 1749-1826
Dundas, James, 1752-1831

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