BIB_ID
106146
Accession number
MA 9143
Creator
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
Display Date
[1773 October 12].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 20.2 x 16.6 cm
Notes
The date of writing is given only as "Tuesday morn." In The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, Sutherland suggests a dating of October 12, 1773 based on letters written by Burke around the same time to Lord Rockingham, as well as Rockingham's movements during this week. See p. 471 in the Correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
The place of writing is given as "Bd. Sancty," standing for "Broad Sanctuary," a street in Westminster.
Address panel: "To / John Bourke Esqr / Tokenhouse yard / London."
The Morgan Library also holds two of John Bourke's letters to Burke discussing this meeting (MA 149.6 and MA 149.7).
The place of writing is given as "Bd. Sancty," standing for "Broad Sanctuary," a street in Westminster.
Address panel: "To / John Bourke Esqr / Tokenhouse yard / London."
The Morgan Library also holds two of John Bourke's letters to Burke discussing this meeting (MA 149.6 and MA 149.7).
Provenance
This letter was removed, along with others, from Volume I of a bound collection of the correspondence of Philip Francis (MA 148-150) in 1928. The correspondence had gone by descent to Philip Francis's eldest granddaughter Miss Francis, and was 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
Explaining that he had come to London on receiving a letter from Lord Rockingham, and that Rockingham will be staying in the city until Friday; postponing a meeting with Bourke and Philip Francis at Beaconsfield, originally scheduled for Wednesday, until Friday; writing that he will call on Francis himself today, but, if he does not find him, asking Bourke to "let him know this unpleasing necessity of postponing the satisfaction I proposed to myself for Wednesday. I am really vexed at it, but I hope Friday will do equally well."
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