BIB_ID
159335
Accession number
MA 148.59
Creator
Francis, Philip, Sir, 1740-1818.
Display Date
1809 Sept. 3.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p.), bound ; 23.1
Notes
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see related collection-level record for more information.
Ragley is the ancestral home of the Marquess of Hertford.
Removed in 1925 from Junius correspondence.
The salutation is simply "Dear John."
Ragley is the ancestral home of the Marquess of Hertford.
Removed in 1925 from Junius correspondence.
The salutation is simply "Dear John."
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
Apologizing that he cannot receive him at Tunbridge Wells but that his daughters Mary and Catherine could host in his stead; describing the beauty of Ragley and the health of the Prince of Wales who arrived at Ragley shortly before Francis; providing him a postal address for any intelligence he might be willing to share.
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