BIB_ID
129827
Accession number
MA 177.83
Creator
Penrhyn, Richard Pennant, Baron, 1737?-1808.
Display Date
[1788-1795].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1890.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.8 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters related to the trial of Warren Hastings; see collection-level record (MA 176-177) for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson in 1890.
Summary
Asking if the "Keeper of the Box" behaved properly when he refused admission to a friend of Lady Penrhyn to whom she had given a ticket; the gentleman's name was not on the ticket; asking for another ticket for the gentleman for the following day; in a postscript, referring to a shipment of book cases and identifying the gentleman who was refused admittance to the trial as Mr. Edward Long of Wimpole Street.
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