BIB_ID
124595
Accession number
MA 149.79
Creator
Macrabie, Alexander, d. 1776.
Display Date
1770 Mar. 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.7 cm.
Notes
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
Sir William Draper was a British army officer who wrote several letters to "Junius" in defense of Lord Granby.
Sir William Draper was a British army officer who wrote several letters to "Junius" in defense of Lord Granby.
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
Discussing the details of a possible purchase of 1,000 acres in Pennsylvania for Francis; asking "Have you repealed our Acts yet? I wish you had, for we want Goods most confoundedly;" adding that "Junius is the Mars of Malcontents. His Letter to the King is past all endurance as well as, all Compare. The Americans are under small Obligations to him for his Representation of them. I will do them more Justice than he does by declaring that his Production is not very favourably received among them. Who the Devil can he be? Sir. W. Draper is arrived in South Carolina. I have read all the Correspondence and never before met with such keen cutting Satire."
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