BIB_ID
119838
Accession number
MA 150.9
Creator
Wheler, Edward, 1733-1784.
Display Date
1780 Apr. 20.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm.
Notes
Address panel to "Philip Francis Esq;" docketed on verso.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
Place of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
Place of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
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
Returning a paper he received from Francis the previous day; saying that the paper "contains the most essential Part of our Conversation, and is expressed in a very satisfactory Manner;" recommending a minor insertion to the text.
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