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Autograph letter signed : "Clifford Street" [London], to the [Marquis of Granby], 1778 May 11.

BIB_ID
211950
Accession number
MA 894.9
Creator
Addington, Anthony, 1713-1790.
Display Date
1778 May 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 22.2 cm
Notes
Address panel to "The most Honourable / The Marquis of Granby / Beauvoir Castle / Lincolnshire."
Part of a collection of letters from and to William Pitt the Elder and William Pitt the Younger. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 894-895 for more detail.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1912.
Summary
Informing him of the death of Lord Chatham; saying "This undeserving Nation had the inexpressible Misfortune of losing Lord Chatham this morning. Quando ullum inveniet Parem?"