BIB_ID
132385
Accession number
MA 150.57
Creator
Maurice, Thomas, 1754-1824.
Display Date
1818 May 5.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.9 cm.
Notes
Docketed on verso.
Letter is written in the third person, in the hand of an amanuensis and signed "British Museum."
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
Letter is written in the third person, in the hand of an amanuensis and signed "British Museum."
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
By descent to his eldest granddaughter Miss Francis, and in her possession in 1871; sale (London, Sotheby's, 27 November 1897); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1901.
Summary
Saying how sorry Mr. Maurice was not to have seen Sir Philip Francis and Mrs. Francis on their recent visits to the Museum; saying that after an extended illness he has completed his Appendix to the Ruins of Babylon and sends a copy of the "very first book made up" to them; adding that he will send another copy when it has been published.
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