BIB_ID
103737
Accession number
MA 149.58
Creator
Fowke, Joseph, 1716-1806.
Display Date
1779 May 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 19.8 cm.
Notes
Docketed.
Identity of recipient inferred from contents of the letter.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
Identity of recipient inferred from contents of the letter.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
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
Expressing his confidence in Sir Philip Francis that his "steady conduct will meet its reward, though I am almost convinced it will not be in this country..;" commenting on the "wild and chimerical Projects" of Warren Hastings; saying that if "Indostan loses its respect for the head of the English government in India, nothing which Bombay can do will be of any great consequence."
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