BIB_ID
338643
Accession number
MA 148.20
Creator
Francis, Philip, Sir, 1740-1818.
Display Date
1769 July 5.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.2 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
Complaining about the heat; wishing that his son would teethe more quickly. Giving some local political news and noting that "the news from America makes things worse & worse. Those from the East Indies rather better."
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