BIB_ID
137213
Accession number
MA 177.137
Creator
Sheffield, John Holroyd, Earl of, 1735-1821.
Display Date
[1792] June 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1890.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 19.0 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.
The year of writing is not provided, however, it is dated Monday morning, June 11; the only year of the trial (1788-1795) in which June 11th fell on a Monday is 1792.
Written from Downing Street.
The year of writing is not provided, however, it is dated Monday morning, June 11; the only year of the trial (1788-1795) in which June 11th fell on a Monday is 1792.
Written from Downing Street.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson in 1890.
Summary
Requesting tickets for the Princesse D'Henin and the Comte de Gouvernet who had "just arrived from Paris and wish to go to Hastings's Tryal this morning;" adding that he and Lady Sheffield will accompany them.
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