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Collection	Correspondence of Foreign Royal Families
Reference	GEO/MAIN/52249-52250
Record Type	Correspondence
Title	Letter from Augusta, Dowager Duchess of Brunswick to George III regarding her travels and journey [to England]
Date	1 Juin [June] 1807
Writer	Brunswick, Augusta, Dowager Duchess of (1737-1813)
Addressee	George III, King
Description	The letter details meeting the Prince Royal, stopping at Glücksburg, Glückstadt and seeing her sons and the Duke and Duchess of Beven. She writes of her plans to go to Schleswig and to stay with the Princess of Orange before travelling to Kiel, where if she has no word [?from George III] will travel to Altona to visit Duchess of Mecklenberg. The Duchess also sends her thanks on behalf of [Caroline] Princess of Wales for the kind reception, and mentions the possibility of submitting to the tyrant [?Napoleon Bonaparte]. The Duchess adds the postscript that she fears upon meeting him again she will be overpowered with feeling.
Place Of Writing	Gravinstein
Language	English
Extent	1 document (4 pages)
Physical Description	Loose manuscript paper; mounted
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