BIB_ID
126230
Accession number
MA 150.60
Creator
Morgan, James, fl. 1849.
Display Date
1849 Jan. 31.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 18.6 cm.
Notes
Address panel to "John Britton Esq / 17 Burton Street / Burton Crescent / London;" notation above the address "Formerly Wm. Whelan Esq."
Docketed on verso.
John Britton was an English architect and antiquarian and author of "Cathedral Antiquities."
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
Docketed on verso.
John Britton was an English architect and antiquarian and author of "Cathedral Antiquities."
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
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 that this letter will be presented by Mr. Wm Whelan; referring to a copy of "Junius elucidated" that Mr. Whelan will bring back with him from London.
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