BIB_ID
339230
Accession number
MA 148.43
Creator
Francis, Philip, Sir, 1740-1818.
Display Date
1770 Dec. 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address), bound ; 22.3 cm.
Notes
Address panel with postmark and addressed to "Major Philip Baggs / 69th Reg't on the Arrival of the / Ajax at / Corke / Ireland;" above the address, Francis has written "On his Majesty's Service;" below the address, Francis writes "War Office / PFrancis."
Major Philip Baggs was a first cousin to Sir Philip Francis and a close friend.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
Major Philip Baggs was a first cousin to Sir Philip Francis and a close friend.
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
Being unclear as to what he is referring; agreeing with him that there are "some subjects which should not be trusted even to paper. Your observation in Italian is very just. The thing was entirely by the invention and impudence of the worthy Mr. B.---; au reste, let this subject never be mentioned again until we meet."
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