BIB_ID
268416
Accession number
MA 150.18
Creator
Adair, Robert, approximately 1716-1790.
Display Date
1780 Mar. 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 23.1 cm
Notes
Docketed on verso.
Identity of recipient inferred from the contents of the letter.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
Identity of recipient inferred from the contents of the letter.
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
Reporting on the ill health of Mrs. Francis and his daughter Sarah; discussing a letter he had from his son saying "he cannot get any Money remitted to England;" asking Francis for his help in the matter; adding that he is "sorry to say Ireland is not satisfied with the great things this Country has done for it..."
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