Autograph letter signed : "War Office" [London], to Major Philip Baggs, 1771 July 3.

Record ID: 
339290
Accession number: 
MA 148.47
Author: 
Francis, Philip, Sir, 1740-1818.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description: 
1 item (1 p.), bound ; 22.5 cm.
Notes: 

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.

Summary: 

Saying that "Wilkes, I think, is more firmly upon his legs than ever he was."

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.