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Henrietta Hobart Howard, Countess of Suffolk papers
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Title: Henrietta Hobart Howard, Countess of Suffolk papers
Dates: 1715-1824
Collection Number: mssHM 6659-6698
Creator OR Collector:
Suffolk, Henrietta Hobart Howard, Countess of, 1688?-1767
Extent:
40 items
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
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San Marino, California 91108
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Abstract: Collection of letters to and from Henrietta Hobart Howard, Countess of Suffolk.
Language of Material: The records are in English.
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[Identification of item], Henrietta Hobart Howard, Countess of Suffolk papers, The Huntington Library, San
Marino, California.
Purchased from George D. Smith, 1920s.
Henrietta Hobart, daughter of Sir Henry Hobart, 4th Bart., married in 1706 Charles Howard, afterward 9th Earl of Suffolk (1675-1733).
She was the acknowledged mistress of the Prince of Wales (afterward George II), and a Lady of the Bedchamber to his wife,
Princess (later Queen) Caroline. As such, the countess was much courted for favor and patronage, and was also well known in
literary circles of the time. She retired from Court in 1734, and the following year, married, for a second husband, the Hon.
George Berkeley (d. 1746). She died in 1767 at the age of 86. A selection of her letters, edited by John Wilson Croker, was
published in 1824.
The collection consists of letters which shed light on the activities and social life of the Countess of Suffolk and her circle.
Included are an anonymous but purportedly first-hand account of the alleged murder of Samuel Molyneux by the physician Nathaniel
St. Andre, and Sir Walter Scott's autograph review of the 1824 edition of the publication of the Countess's letters. There
is little in the collection concerning George II or Court politics.
Berkeley, George, 1693?-1746
Molyneux, Samuel, 1689-1728
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832
St. André, Nathanael, 1680-1776
Suffolk, Henrietta Hobart Howard, Countess of, 1688?-1767
Countesses -- Great Britain -- Correspondence
Women -- England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century
Letters (correspondence) -- Great Britain -- 18th century
Letters (correspondence) -- Great Britain -- 19th century