69_Masson_SH

identifiant69_Masson_SH
fait partie deMasson
est validéoui
date1821/05/24 00:00
titreLettre d'Hudson Lowe au général Montholon
texte en markdown<h1><span style="font-family:Chivo;font-size:60%;line-height:1;"><b>69_Masson_SH -</b> HUDSON LOWE AU GÉNÉRAL MONTHOLON</span></h1> <h2 data-kind="letter-context;" style="text-align: right; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal">Plantation House, 24<sup>th</sup> May 1821</h2> The governor presents his compliments to Count Montholon and begs to enclose to him [the] extract of a letter he received yesterday by the Vansittart. He regrets that the almost unprecedented length of that ship’s voyage (14 weeks) should have frustrated all the hope that might have perhaps been otherwise [deemed] of its contents affording any motive of consolation or of being in any degree whatsoever of avail.[^1] [^1]: Expédition, Bibliothèque Thiers, fonds Masson, carton 8, fol. 303.