BIB_ID
159397
Accession number
MA 22964
Creator
Francklin, Thomas, 1721-1784.
Display Date
London, England, 1778 November 5.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 24.0 x 19.0 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmarks to "Rev'd Dr. Percy / Dean of / Carlisle / Cumberland."
Written from "Queen Street / Sat. Nov. 5 / 1778." "Dec'r" has been written in brackets to the right of "Sat. Nov. 5". This record uses the date Francklin has written.
Thomas Percy was named Bishop of Dromore in 1782.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1791), IV, 74; PML 9812-9815.
Written from "Queen Street / Sat. Nov. 5 / 1778." "Dec'r" has been written in brackets to the right of "Sat. Nov. 5". This record uses the date Francklin has written.
Thomas Percy was named Bishop of Dromore in 1782.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1791), IV, 74; PML 9812-9815.
Summary
Informing him of various ecclesiastical appointments; thanking him for his "...noble patient acceptance of the [illegible] & doubt not but it will conjure up a miter for yourself. That you may soon be congratulated on that event is the sincere wish of / Sir / your obed't / humble Servant / Tho. Francklin."
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