BIB_ID
338679
Accession number
MA 148.22
Creator
Francis, Philip, Sir, 1740-1818.
Display Date
1769 Aug. 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see related collection-level record for more information.
The lower half of the second leaf and an additional word from the second leaf have been excised.
The lower half of the second leaf and an additional word from the second leaf have been excised.
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
Regretting that one of his letters has apparently gone astray; reporting that he has no domestic news but that his son "has been at the Point of Death" but is now recovering; mentioning that Peter Godfrey unexpectedly left his fortune to Gravier; suggesting that the Americans should restrict themselves to "passive Resistance."
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