BIB_ID
338532
Accession number
MA 148.5
Creator
Francis, Philip, Sir, 1740-1818.
Display Date
1768 Mar. 12.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (5 p.) ; 23.6 cm
Notes
A portion (probably 2 p.) of the letter is not present.
N.B. The duel between Captain Rice and Mr. Rutherford took place at Hyde Park on February 4, 1768.--Cf. Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum: Division I: Political and Personal Satires (London, 1883), p. 447 n. 1.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see related collection-level record for more information.
N.B. The duel between Captain Rice and Mr. Rutherford took place at Hyde Park on February 4, 1768.--Cf. Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum: Division I: Political and Personal Satires (London, 1883), p. 447 n. 1.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see related 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
Asking about his intentions as regards his farm in England; noting that he plans to instruct his cousin Captain Francis to purchase 1,000 acres in America; relating a duel between Captain Rice and Mr. Rutherford; reporting that the family in England is well and mentioning mutual acquaintances; remarking that "Wilkes is setting up for the City of London. We are all as mad about Elections, as over you Americans were about the Stamp Act."
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