BIB_ID
101683
Accession number
MA 150.76
Creator
Holland, Henry Richard Vassall, Baron, 1773-1840.
Display Date
1812 June 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 18.2 cm.
Notes
Address panel to " Sir Philip Francis / St. James's Square."
Docketed on verso.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
The letter contains no salutation; the quote above is the full content of the letter.
Docketed on verso.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
The letter contains no salutation; the quote above is the full content of the letter.
Provenance
By descent to his eldest granddaughter Miss Francis, and in her possession in 1871; sale (London, Sotheby's, 27 November 1897); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1901.
Summary
Referring to the Iliad saying "Achilles ties Hector to his chariot but does not drag him round the walls of Troy--in the 24th book he drags him in the same manner three times round Patrollus's [sic] tomb but his dragging him at all round Troy is a mistake of three Great Men -- namely Alexander, Virgil & Francis."
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