BIB_ID
157443
Accession number
MA 150.25
Creator
Blagden, Charles, Sir, 1748-1820.
Display Date
1814 May 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18.7 cm
Notes
Docketed on verso.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
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
Thanking him for his "kind present of your "Letters to Earl Grey;" saying "We are placed between two opposite duties; that of fulfilling our engagements, and that of not forcing upon any Nation a Ruler which the majority of the people do not approve."
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