BIB_ID
129882
Accession number
MA 894.27
Creator
Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
Display Date
1793 Sept. 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.8 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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1912.
Summary
Accepting his invitation to be godfather to a child recently born; apologizing for not having congratulated him sooner but the .."occupation of missing Partridges has so compleatly consumed all my mornings since I have been here.."adding that he "shall not be farther from you than London or Hollwood [sic], at the Time of the Christening, in which Case, I shall be very glad of so good a reason of taking a dinner at Beckenh[am]...We understand the Batteries are opened against Dunkirk, and Admiral Macbride sailed from hence yesterday afternoon, having previously sent several Vessels to the Coast."
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