BIB_ID
119775
Accession number
MA 150.79
Creator
Winchester, Charles Ingoldsby Burroughs-Paulet, 13th Marquess of, 1764-1843.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm.
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed to "Miss Francis / St. James's Square / W."
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
The letter is undated, however, Lord Winchester married in 1800 and Lady Winchester gave birth to 4 sons between 1801 and 1804 before giving birth to two daughters and a 5th son; birth dates for the daughters, Annabella and Cecila, are not known.
Written from Portman Square.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
The letter is undated, however, Lord Winchester married in 1800 and Lady Winchester gave birth to 4 sons between 1801 and 1804 before giving birth to two daughters and a 5th son; birth dates for the daughters, Annabella and Cecila, are not known.
Written from Portman Square.
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
Announcing the birth of a daughter.
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