#my dearest friend is in a dismal situation at the moment and thus so am I because we may as well be joined at the hip

[higherhell]

Popping on to say sorry for the extended absence once again and that I'm not sure when I'll be back in full capacity. To paraphrase that one old newspaper clipping about life being one damned thing after another being an understatement, The Damned Things Are Overlapping, quite a lot right now. Miss you all and I hope to catch up at some point but I don't know when exactly. One would hope soon, but everything feels like shaky ground right now, so no promises. Love you though 💜

#my dearest friend is in a dismal situation at the moment and thus so am I because we may as well be joined at the hip #despite being on separate continents #I was so worried I was sure I would give myself stress hives the other day before I'd heard back. still worried now but #it was not knowing what was up that made it That bad #things at home are a little rocky atm too but that's peanuts in comparison to the other thing #also some hats I ordered after mulling over the decision all year hit Out For Delivery 3 days ago then entered some nebulous tracking state #been stuck on Alert - Awaiting Delivery Scan ever since. mysterious. are they in a limbo realm? lost? destroyed? no clue lol #and the gradual decline of twitter is a looming background radiation as well of course #my priv there used to be my comfy space where I could mournfully wail like an alley cat and feel a little less alone #and share my little project development art stuff for a pick me up. but it's a ghost town more than ever now #what's a man to do when he's too shy to original character art post in discords but too concerned with privacy to do it on tumblr #science has not yet found the answer #anyway ramble ramble this has gotten excessively long huh #thank you if you read it. and sorry for the downer #but considering what I've just said above about worrying myself sick from Not Knowing I figure maybe it's worth letting people know #puttin my money where my mouth is... eheh :') #I hope things start looking up soon. for me and you #personal pulse #maybe delete later etc

[a-royal-obsession]

Prince Edward to the Prince of Wales

Quebec, 11 Aug. 1793

I could not suffer the only opportunity which has offered for some time for England to pass without sending you these few lines. I shall not trespass on your time with any relation of the cruelty of my situation in being left in this dismal country in a state of utter inactivity, when, from my profession I ought to be on actual service, of which I am sure your friendship for me and the goodness of your heart must make you fully sensible.

My friend Fawcett will of course communicate my letter of this day to you. I shall therefore refer you to that for the explanation of the sentiments which I feel on this occasion. But I cannot refrain from observing that I think it rather hard that I, who have now been eight years and an half from home, and nearly six years of that time in constant military employment, should have that countenance withheld from me which has been shewn to my younger brothers Ernest and Adolphus. I mean that while they are employed on the brilliant field on the Continent I am left to vegetate in this most dreary and gloomy spot on the face of the earth, where there is not the most distant chance of there being anything like service. May I then hope, my dearest George, from your friendship, that you will take an opportunity of representing the hardness of my lot to the King, and, that if nothing has been decided before this reaches England, you will strive to gain his Majesty’s consent for my joining my own Regiment of Hannoverian Guards, now with the army under the Duke of York. Should you be successful in this application on my behalf, allow me to request that you will further have the goodness to obtain his sanction for a frigate being immediately ordered to sail for this, in which case I may still reach England by the latter end of December. I am in hopes that this letter will reach you at latest by the 20th of September, and if I am so fortunate as to have no time lost, a frigate may with ease be here some time in the first week in November, the river St. Lawrence being perfectly navigable till the middle of December. In proof of this assertion I need only mention (within my own recollection,) the arrival of the Triton frigate with Colonel Simcoe on board on the 12th of November 1791, which afterwards made a perfectly good passage out of the river again. Believe me, I have no wish in mentioning this thus particularly, but to hurry my departure from hence, that I may the sooner join my post. However, it may still perhaps be proper for me to observe that, as it is very possible the Admiralty may object to sending a frigate so late in the year to Quebec, it will be absolutely necessary to obtain the King’s approbation for its being ordered to go to New York (in which I presume from the circumstance of that being a neutral port, there can be no impropriety) with directions to the Captain to forward his Majesty’s commands to me by express overland at the moment of his arrival, in which case I am confident that I shall still eventually reach England as soon as if I had sailed from Quebec on the middle of November. Depend upon it, I have not a desire to loiter one moment in London, and I am ready faithfully to engage, when I have seen their Majesties and you, to set off under twenty four hours for the Continent, if such should be the King’s pleasure.

My sole and entire reliance being on you, my dearest George, allow me to claim of you not to lose a moment at least in making the attempt, for it is with this hope alone that I can bear my present situation with patience. Whatever may be the event, pray order Dalrymple to give me notice of it, if you cannot find time yourself to write.

Now, dear brother, with sentiments of the warmest attachment [etc.].

#Edward Duke of Kent #George IV #Royalty #Letter #George III #Ernest Augustus I of Hanover #Adolphus Duke of Cambridge #Frederick Duke of York