BIB_ID
103578
Accession number
MA 177.4
Creator
Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818.
Display Date
[1788] Mar. 27.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1890.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 23.3 cm
Notes
Notation at bottom of letter by Sir Peter Burrell, with his initials, "Some alterations made but not the whole desired."
Part of a large collection of letters related to the trial of Warren Hastings; see collection-level record (MA 176-177) for more information.
The year of writing is not provided, but given the very detailed instructions for alterations, it is most likely that the request was made in the early weeks of the trial in 1788.
Part of a large collection of letters related to the trial of Warren Hastings; see collection-level record (MA 176-177) for more information.
The year of writing is not provided, but given the very detailed instructions for alterations, it is most likely that the request was made in the early weeks of the trial in 1788.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson in 1890.
Summary
Requesting alterations to his box for the trial that pertain to the amount of separation between his box and the Witness Stand; saying that the witnesses are so close to him that he was forced to "quit my Seat & stand with my body pressed against the most distant Side of the Box..;" requesting that a partition be built between him and the Witness Stand "from the left of my Box; that the partition which divides my Box from that of my Counsel may be carried to an equal Distance to the Right;" adding that he would like to request a larger bench be made "for the Ease of the Gentlemen who attend as my bail, one of whom, from his Bulk suffers some Constraints from his present Seat."
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