BIB_ID
159536
Accession number
MA 150.17
Creator
Fraser, Simon, Master of Lovat, 1726-1782.
Display Date
1779 Feb. 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Docketed on verso.
Identity of the recipient inferred from contents of the letter.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
Written from Downing Street.
Identity of the recipient inferred from contents of the letter.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
Written from Downing Street.
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
Sending a duplicate of a letter he sent to Bristow on Bristow's insistence; saying that "his reason is on account of the advice I give for coming to terms there with H.[Hastings] & B.[Barwell] provided it can be done with honor to yourself, and without prejudice to the public service;" adding that "Bristow gives you the particulars of what passed in regard to Charles Fox, I must beg as a favor that you woud conceal that from every body whatever, because it was told me in confidence, and I woud not on any account have the story, much less the particulars of it come round, which it woud infallibly do if it got to almost any of the people about You, therefore I trust it will get to none of them."
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