BIB_ID
339222
Accession number
MA 148.40
Creator
Francis, Philip, Sir, 1740-1818.
Display Date
1771 May 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address), bound ; 22.6 cm.
Notes
Address panel to "Mr. A. Mackrabie / 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
Referring to his land purchase in America; relating political news of the report of The Committee of Privileges to the House of Commons; commenting that "Nothing can be more ridiculous and disgraceful both to the Committee and to the House than this whole business. I shall not wonder at, though I have no sufficient reason to expect, a dissolution of Parliament, and a total change of hands as thing now stand;" adding that "Lord Chatham is to move to-morrow for an address to dissolve. Lord Halifax is either dead or dying: if he should survive he is to quit business. Wilkes will probably be sheriff."
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