BIB_ID
128796
Accession number
MA 894.3
Creator
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778.
Display Date
"1759 Wednesday morning."
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.9 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters from and to William Pitt the Elder and William Pitt the Younger. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 894-895 for more detail.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1912.
Summary
Informing him "that the King has given leave to Lord George Sackville to return to England, his Lordship having in a letter to Lord Holderness requested to be recalled from his Command. This mode of returning, your Lordship will perceive, is a very considerable softening of his misfortune. The Torment, in all Parts, bears hard upon Him. as I have already, so I shall continue to give to a most unhappy man all the offices of Humanity, which our first, sacred object, my dear Lord, the Publick Good, will allow. The king sends the garter and a handsome present to Prince Ferdinand."
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