BIB_ID
129641
Accession number
MA 895.14
Creator
Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
Display Date
[1785-1796?] Sept. 18.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 24 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.
The letter is dated "Sunday, Sept. 18th" from Holwood; Pitt purchased Holwood in 1785, and Sept. 18 fell on a Sunday in 1785, 1791, and 1796 before Pitt had to sell the house in 1802.
The letter is dated "Sunday, Sept. 18th" from Holwood; Pitt purchased Holwood in 1785, and Sept. 18 fell on a Sunday in 1785, 1791, and 1796 before Pitt had to sell the house in 1802.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1912.
Summary
Telling him that he will immediately forward his letter to Lord [William Wyndham] Grenville; noting that "the accounts it gives of the State and Prospects of the War are highly satisfactory"; referring to the "loss of poor Crawford."
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