BIB_ID
338632
Accession number
MA 148.13
Creator
Francis, Philip, Sir, 1740-1818.
Display Date
1768 Nov. 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 24.1 cm
Notes
One word from the first leaf have 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 a letter, noting that the fruit he sent has not arrived and remarking that he will have few opportunities of wearing the Indian dresses he sent as the masquerade has already passed. Noting that his friend has had an execution in his house and is ruined, blaming the events as "a natural consequence of keeping a whore, post chaise & country house."
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