Record ID:
159334
Accession number:
MA 148.44
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description:
1 item (2 p., with address), bound ; 22.6 cm.
Notes:
Address panel to "Major Philip Baggs / of the 69th Regiment of Foot / at Gibraltar;" written above the address is "On his Majesty's Service;" written below the address is "War Office / PFrancis."
Major Philip Baggs was a first cousin to Sir Philip Francis and a close friend.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
Summary:
Informing him that Lord Barrington is denying his application for promotion in the 69th Regiment due to his youth relative to the other majors in the regiment; relating news of mutual acquaintances.
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.
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