BIB_ID
211310
Accession number
MA 149.18
Creator
Clive of Plassey, Margaret, Lady, 1735-1817.
Display Date
1773 Aug. 31.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.7 cm.
Notes
Identity of 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.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
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
Hoping he will visit them in the country before he goes to India; offering him the loan of a paper describing an earthquake in Lisbon in 1753 in return for his "protection & good offices" to the son of a friend who has gone to Bengal.
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