BIB_ID
338612
Accession number
MA 148.10
Creator
Francis, Philip, Sir, 1740-1818.
Display Date
1768 Aug. 13.
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
Thanking him for some letters from New York; mentioning that the King of Denmark has just arrived in England; intending to forward several letters from Macrabie's father; mentioning that the governance of Virginia has been taken from Sir Jeffery Amherst and given to Lord Botetourt; reporting that two regiments of 500 men each have been dispatched to Boston.
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