BIB_ID
119331
Accession number
MA 150.62
Creator
Yonge, Philip, 1709-1783.
Display Date
1768 Feb. 16.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 24.1 cm.
Notes
Docketed on verso.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
The recipient is the father of Sir Philip Francis and was appointed Chaplain of the Chelsea Hospital in 1764.
The subject of this letter, Rev. Peter Hingeston, was a Chaplain at the Chelsea Hospital at the same time as Philip Francis; they were both appointed in 1764.
Written from "Grosvenor Street."
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
The recipient is the father of Sir Philip Francis and was appointed Chaplain of the Chelsea Hospital in 1764.
The subject of this letter, Rev. Peter Hingeston, was a Chaplain at the Chelsea Hospital at the same time as Philip Francis; they were both appointed in 1764.
Written from "Grosvenor Street."
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
Informing him of the rectories to which Rev. Hingeston is attached; saying that he does not know "by what authority he officiates at Chelsea College."
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