BIB_ID
338637
Accession number
MA 148.16
Creator
Francis, Philip, Sir, 1740-1818.
Display Date
1769 Mar. 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.5 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see related collection-level record for more information.
The letter is incomplete; final page(s) are missing.
The letter is incomplete; final page(s) are missing.
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
Complaining that his father-in-law's lengthy letters deprive him of topics for his own; reporting that his son has recovered from inoculation and that all the old women of their neighborhood have agreed that he is "a most wonderful manchild." Mentioning that "Politics are in as notable a Confusion as ever."
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