?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
WELLINGTON, ARTHUR WELLESLEY; 1ST DUKE. Autograph Letter Signed, "The Duke of Wellington," in the third person within the text, to portrait painter John Hayter, requesting to keep the artwork depicting the Marchioness of Douro [Elizabeth Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington (1820-1904)], inquiring what is the Duke's debt to him, and arranging for delivery through the housekeeper of the Duke's house in Piccadilly [Apsley House]. 1 1/2 pages, 8vo, with integral address leaf addressed in holograph and bearing remnants of black wax seal, folds. Stratfield Saye, 5 October 1839
