BIB_ID
136462
Accession number
MA 150.67
Creator
Rose, George, 1744-1818.
Display Date
1811 Oct. 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 23.3cm.
Notes
Identity of recipient inferred from its placement in the collection.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
Written from "Old Palace Yard."
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
Written from "Old Palace Yard."
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
Asking if the enclosed paper included "Signatures of the Persons whose Names are on it; and you may be sure no one shall know I had any Information from you on the Subject. I am unwilling to believe that any Tradesman of respectable character would be [illegible] in such a Transaction."
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