BIB_ID
129673
Accession number
MA 895.15
Creator
Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
Display Date
[1789?] Oct. 15.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 24 cm
Notes
Docketed.
The letter is dated "Thursday Oct. 15" and refers to Holwood, a house Pitt purchased in 1785 and sold in 1802. During these years, Oct. 15 fell on a Thursday in 1789, 1795, and 1801. The reference in the letter to George III's illness
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 "Thursday Oct. 15" and refers to Holwood, a house Pitt purchased in 1785 and sold in 1802. During these years, Oct. 15 fell on a Thursday in 1789, 1795, and 1801. The reference in the letter to George III's illness
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
Reporting that "the Duke of Leeds has written to Fitzherbert, and waits only for the Form of his Answer ... to take the King's Pleasure for your Nomination"; telling him that he is going "into the West for about ten days" but hopes to be able to call at Blenheim "on [his] return about the 28th"; informing him that "there are no material dispatches since last year on the subject of the Negotiation with Holland" and observing that "the King's Illness interrupted."
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