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Autograph letter signed : Cawnpore, to [Sir Philip Francis], 1780 Sept. 9.

BIB_ID
107767
Accession number
MA 149.21
Creator
Collings, L., active 1780.
Display Date
1780 Sept. 9.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
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
Saying he rejoices "to hear so favorable an account of you and from as good an authority as your Physician. Mr. Jackson told me this morning that the Doctor had written to him that you were removed to your own house and well enough to sit up; saying that "Desperate as our Situation is on all sides, I shall not give up the Cause, whilst a Hope remains of your defending it."