Record ID:
338609
Accession number:
MA 148.9
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description:
1 item (3 p.) ; 23.8 cm
Notes:
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see related collection-level record for more information.
Summary:
Assuring him of his family's health in England and referencing his wife's pregnancy; asking after his situation and prospects in America; mentioning new management at Covent Garden; reporting that a Justice of the Peace has been indited because he ordered a group of soldiers to fire and a man was killed.
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.
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