BIB_ID
125297
Accession number
MA 148.12a
Display Date
1768 Oct. 3.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 23.8 cm
Notes
Enclosed in a letter from Sir Philip Francis to his brother-in-law Alexander Macrabie, dated 5 October 1768 (MA 148.12).
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see related collection-level record for more information.
Signed "P.P." The author is a relative referred to in letters only as "Patty." She was probably a Macrabie cousin, and seems to have lived with Macrabie's parents from at least 1768-1773. Francis frequently refers to her "madness."
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see related collection-level record for more information.
Signed "P.P." The author is a relative referred to in letters only as "Patty." She was probably a Macrabie cousin, and seems to have lived with Macrabie's parents from at least 1768-1773. Francis frequently refers to her "madness."
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
Congratulating him on the birth of a son.
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