BIB_ID
339201
Accession number
MA 148.36
Creator
Francis, Philip, Sir, 1740-1818.
Display Date
1770 Dec. 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address), bound ; 22.8 cm.
Notes
Address panel with postmark and addressed to "Mr. Alexander Mackrabie / at / Philadelphia."
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see 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
Saying that his "life is one continued scene of fermentation. The approach of war loads me with business, as by and by, I hope it will with money;" adding that there is the expectation of "a declaration of war every day, and great preparations are making by sea and land;" asking, in a postscript, that he tell him "what I am to do with these thousand acres."
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