BIB_ID
339229
Accession number
MA 148.42
Creator
Francis, Philip, Sir, 1740-1818.
Display Date
1770 Dec. 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p.), bound ; 22.8 cm.
Notes
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
Philip Baggs was a first cousin to Sir Philip Francis, a close friend and a Major in the British Army.
The letter has no salutation; the identity of the recipient is from the printed letter in Memoirs of Sir Philip Francis by Joseph Parkes and Herman Merivale (London: Longman's 1867), p. 247-248.
Philip Baggs was a first cousin to Sir Philip Francis, a close friend and a Major in the British Army.
The letter has no salutation; the identity of the recipient is from the printed letter in Memoirs of Sir Philip Francis by Joseph Parkes and Herman Merivale (London: Longman's 1867), p. 247-248.
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 an incident in the House of Lords; saying "A very odd thing happened yesterday in the House of Lords. The Duke of Manchester declared that he had a motion to make, and was very quietly explaining the ground and occasion of it, particularly the defenceless state of the nation. After he had been talking about a quarter of an hour, Lord Gower got up and interrupted him, saying that such matters were unfit to be divulged before so crowded an audience, and therefore insisted that his Grace should not proceed until the House was cleared;" providing details on the "clamour and tumult" that ensued; asking him to make "discreet use" of the news.
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