Record ID:
339223
Accession number:
MA 148.41
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description:
1 item (2 p., with address), bound ; 22.9 cm.
Notes:
Address panel to "Mr. Alexander Mackrabie / at / Philadelphia."
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
Summary:
Asking him "whether you are determined to take root in America, or ever to be transported home again?" apologizing for not writing by saying "I am jaded to death. The Irish Parliament have struck off Jerry Dyson's pension. The Duke of Cumberland and his Duchess are returned and are forbidden the court. But it is supposed all this will soon be made up."
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.
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