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Autograph letter : place not specified to Sir Philip Francis, 1780 May 14.

BIB_ID
107683
Accession number
MA 149.25
Creator
Coote, Eyre, Sir, 1726-1783.
Display Date
1780 May 14.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.9 cm.
Notes
Docketed.
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
Writing in the third person, he presents his compliments and returns papers which he had sent to him through Mr. Hastings; including Dutch newspapers and "wishes the information they contain was more favorable to Great Britain."