BIB_ID
128816
Accession number
MA 150.24
Creator
Becher, Richard, 1721-1782.
Display Date
1778 Dec. 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 23.3 cm
Notes
Docketed on verso.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
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
Thanking him for his recent letters; complimenting him on his contributions to the Administration in Bengal and expressing his wish "to see you in the Chair, and shall on all Occasions promote measures to advance you to that honourable Station;" saying that he hopes that the charter for the East India Company will be extended; relating the current shipment of additional troops to India to "enable the English to take pondicherry [sic] and entirely drive the French from India;"discussing specific proceedings of the Council; adding, in a postscript, intelligence news on the Mharatta Government and the situation with the French forces.
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