BIB_ID
121868
Accession number
MA 150.39
Creator
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805.
Display Date
1760 Jan. 31.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.0 cm
Notes
Docketed on verso.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
Sir Philip Francis was secretary to General Bligh in the expedition again Cherbourg in 1758; Lord Fitzmaurice had been in the 20th Regiment of the British Army in France and Germany.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
Sir Philip Francis was secretary to General Bligh in the expedition again Cherbourg in 1758; Lord Fitzmaurice had been in the 20th Regiment of the British Army in France and Germany.
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
Saying he has left the Army for the winter but hopes "to return to it against the next Campaign;" saying he wishes he "had as good News to send you on Prince Ferdinand's Behalf, as the News of Admiral Hawke's Success was to us, at that Critical Point of time."
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