Stuart (Charles Edward, styled Charles III, known as the Young Pretender, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Jacobite claimant to the English, Scottish, and Irish thrones, 1720-88) Autograph Letter signed "Charles P" to "Mon Cousin", 1p. with black wax seal of the Royal coat of arms, in French, 205 x 195mm., 31st January 1743, an expression of deep and abiding affection, "Je suis tres persuade que vous l'embrasseriez avec joie, et de mon coté je trouverai bien plus de plaisir a vous temoigner en Personne l'Amitié et l'estime que je concus alors," folds, slightly foxed, framed and glazed.

***Written perhaps, to Louis XV as an expression of mutual goodwill shortly before Charles Edward Stuart's invasion of Scotland in 1745..