BIB_ID
339293
Accession number
MA 148.48
Creator
Francis, Philip, Sir, 1740-1818.
Display Date
1771 July 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address), bound ; 22.9 cm.
Notes
Address panel with postmark and addressed to "Major Baggs, / 69th Reg't of Foot / Gibraltar;" above the address Francis has written "On H. M. Service;" below the address "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
Referring to an ongoing issue with his [Baggs'] pay and insurance; commenting on politics and saying "Wilkes's success has established his interest in the City, and in my opinion he is in a higher style than ever. Junius has given Horne a most severe correction. The best on't is, that Junius, under pretence of writing Horne a private letter, makes him the editor of the grossest and most infamous libel that ever was printed. This I take to be a coup d'etat;" commenting further on City politics involving [Brass] Crosby as Lord Mayor.
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