BIB_ID
106521
Accession number
MA 150.26
Creator
Bloomfield, Benjamin Bloomfield, 1st Baron, 1768-1846.
Display Date
1809 Aug. 7.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.6 cm
Notes
Docketed on verso.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
The Walcheren Campaign, part of the War of the Fifth Coalition, was an unsuccessful expedition into the Netherlands by the British army, commanded by William Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
The Walcheren Campaign, part of the War of the Fifth Coalition, was an unsuccessful expedition into the Netherlands by the British army, commanded by William Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham.
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
Relaying a dinner invitation to Sir Philip Francis from the Prince of Wales; reporting on the news of the fighting at Walcheren.
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