BIB_ID
116829
Accession number
MA 150.77
Creator
Temple, Frances 1786-1838.
Display Date
1804 Aug. 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.4 cm.
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed to "Miss Catherine Francis / Post Office / Bristol / Gloucestershire."
Catherine's sister, Elizabeth, died two weeks earlier on July 14, 1804.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
Catherine's sister, Elizabeth, died two weeks earlier on July 14, 1804.
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
Thanking her for her kind note and expressing her sympathy "Most Sincerely in those your affectionate bosom has so lately Suffered;" saying that her mother has come to Broadlands and sends her love to her, Eliza and their brother.
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