Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

A memorial of several noblemen & gentlemen of the first rank & fortunes : manuscript.

BIB_ID
159348
Accession number
MA 22962
Display Date
Place not specified, after 1784?
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 31.6 x 19.9 cm
Notes
Removed from Correspondence of Sir Philip Francis, v. 3 (MA 150).
The manuscript is undated and written in an unknown hand. It is possible it was created after the publication of the Memorial in 1784.
The discussion of this Memorial in the Diary (pages 199-201 in the citation below) suggests that after receiving the Memorial General Hawley "sent it or carried it to the Secretary of State, who laid it before the King."
Summary
Being a Memorial protesting against the tutors to the Prince of Wales; according to an introductory note to the published text of the Memorial cited below "This remarkable Memorial was sent by the penny-post inclosed in a cover to General Hawley, on the 20th of December 1752, and is referred to in the 200th page of the Diary (see pages 199-201 in the publication cited below). The paper being received in the questionable shape of an anonymous letter, the reader will naturally be cautious in giving too much credit to the very severe allegations contained in it. As this Memorial was, by some neglect, omitted in the former edition of the Diary, a sufficient number is now printed off, to supply the purchasers of that volume with this additional paper gratis."