WILLIAM IV KING OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND HANOVER SIGNED DOCUMENT

This manuscript letter, 4 pages, signed William IV. Size 18 cm x 22 cm. 

St. James’s

July 31, 1821

My dear Lord,

I am to acknowledge yours of the 27th instant and its enclosure which I shall make Barton answer.

Nothing was to have gone off better than the Coronation and the King neither form that nor from the fatigue arising in consequence of the Laser’s Drawing Room and the t—ness to Balls is at all the-----:

I saw him yesterday and he was in high health and spirits and embarks today at Portsmouth for Ireland: I hope the weather will be favorable: I was not commanded to accompany His Majesty and never -----myself: particularly as it seems the Duchess did not like the idea of my going. And we are more anxious to get into Beasley where I trust we shall be comfortably settled by the first week in September: I understand the moment the King can leave this country on his return from Dublin he sets out for Hanover and does not this season visit Scotland.

The weather here is very uncertain and worse: It does not agree with me at all: but I hope the air and exercise at Beasley will do me good: The Duchess is very will and unites with me in every sincere and hearty good wish towards yourself and Lady Keith to whom remember me particularly and kindly: I am glad you are not worse and trust yours---- will set you quite safe: excuse this stupid letter: but I cannot get up my spirits: adieu and ever believe me,

My Dear Lord,

Yours unattanably

William

William IV (William Henry), (1765 –1837) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death in 1837. The third son of George III, William succeeded his elder brother George IV, becoming the last king and penultimate monarch of Britain's House of Hanover.