[QUEEN CAROLINE AFFAIR] Fairburn’s genuine edition of the death-bed confessions of the late Countess of Guernsey, to Lady Anne H*******

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: developing a series of mysterious transactions connected with the most illustrious personages in the kingdom. To which are added the Q - s last letter to the K , written a few days before her M s death, and other authentic documents, never before published. London : Printed and published by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill, 1821. First edition (?). Octavo (225 mm), stitched as issued; pp. [3] iv, [1] 2-48, [4 publishers advertisements]; uncut; title-page and verso of the last leaf a little darkened and with a few minor stains, contents with occasional light foxing; a good copy of what appears to be the first edition of this pamphlet on The Queen Caroline Affair. [WITH AN ASSOCIATED MANUSCRIPT LETTER ENCLOSED] Letter addressed to The Honourable Miss Louisa Wrottesley, Knoyle, Carteret, Salisbury , from Louisa Grey, dated at London, 7 August 1826; FREE strike in red; contains the last part only of Louisa Grey s manuscript letter to Lady Wrottesley, the enclosed sheet(s) with the first part of the missal now lost; original folds, remnants of black wax seal. Louisa Wrottesley (1780-1842) served as a maid of honour to Queen Caroline and later Queen Charlotte. She was the daughter of Maj. Gen. Sir John Wrottesley (1744-1787) and Frances Courteney (1746-1828). Her siblings were: 1. Sir John Wrottesley 1771 1841 2. Henry Wrottesley 1772 1825 3. Frances (Fanny) Wrottesley 1773 1814 4. Caroline Gertrude Wrottesley1775 1777 5. Charlotte Wrottesley 1779 post 1826 6. Lt. Col. Hugh

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