Record ID:
338637
Accession number:
MA 148.16
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description:
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.5 cm
Notes:
The letter is incomplete; final page(s) are missing.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see related collection-level record for more information.
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."
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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