Record ID:
339290
Accession number:
MA 148.47
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.
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