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Letter from Henry IV of France to Henry, Prince of Wales, 19th February 1606. Letter written from Paris by Henry IV of France to Henry, Prince of Wales, thanking him on behalf of the Dauphin, his son (who was too young to write in person), for the present of a pack of hounds. The Prince of Wales, son of King James I, died from typhoid at the age of eighteen. From the third series of Facsimiles of royal, historical, literary and other autographs in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum: Series I-V, (London, 1899).