BIB_ID
339221
Accession number
MA 148.39
Creator
Francis, Philip, Sir, 1740-1818.
Display Date
1771 Mar. 6.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p.), bound ; 23.1 cm.
Notes
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
The signature has been torn away from the right-hand corner of page 3; given the size of the missing corner, it is likely that the signature was with initials.
The signature has been torn away from the right-hand corner of page 3; given the size of the missing corner, it is likely that the signature was with initials.
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
Relating news of family; asking about his future plans and wondering if he is "as much afloat as ever?" discussing the state of political affairs; saying ...."I think we decline every day. The House of Commons are every day treated like an assembly of pick-pockets, and even the newspapers have lost their dignity. There was a great and sudden fall of the stocks yesterday, but I have not heard it accounted for upon any principles, but the usual roguery of the alley. The whisper given about is, that the Duke of Choiseul is to be recalled, consequently an immediate war to be expected. But this I take to be nonsense."
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