BIB_ID
338608
Accession number
MA 148.8
Creator
Francis, Philip, Sir, 1740-1818.
Display Date
1768 June 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 23.8 cm
Notes
One word from the first leaf has been excised.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see related collection-level record for more information.
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
Remarking that his domestic life is "insipid as usual," with "children bawling, servants fighting, my wife scolding, your Father and Mother weeping, & Patty raving mad." Reporting that John Wilkes outlawry has been "reversed upon an Error" and mentioning some political appointments. Noting that he will dine with a gentleman [whose name has been excised], noting that he has "taken an elegant house in the country, on Barnes Common, a carriage & a whore, he wants noting now but a pack of hounds and a couple of race horses to finish his character."
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