BIB_ID
116330
Accession number
MA 149.74
Creator
Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812.
Display Date
[year not specified] Sept. 27.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.); 22.4 cm.
Notes
A note in a previous record suggests that the date of writing was before 1782.
Identity of recipient inferred from placement within the collection.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
Identity of recipient inferred from placement within the collection.
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
Enclosing papers which he says have never been out of his possession "except about half an hour whilst it was copying;" asking if he might call on him.
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