BIB_ID
129514
Accession number
MA 895.9
Creator
Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
Display Date
1804 Aug. 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 23.9 cm
Notes
Written in the third person.
With a separate cover sheet (31.7 cm) that includes Penn's address ("J. Penn Esq. / Spring Gardens"), Pitt's signature, and a seal.
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.
With a separate cover sheet (31.7 cm) that includes Penn's address ("J. Penn Esq. / Spring Gardens"), Pitt's signature, and a seal.
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 he "will not be able to complete the arrangements ... so soon as Monday, as it is necessary that Mr. Pitt should previously see the Duke of York [Prince Frederick Augustus] upon the subject, and His Royal Highness is not expected in London till that day."
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