BIB_ID
339297
Accession number
MA 148.50
Creator
Francis, Philip, Sir, 1740-1818.
Display Date
1771 Aug. 22.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item ( p., with address), bound ; 22.8 cm.
Notes
Address panel addressed to " Major Baggs;" adding a note on the lower outside panel Francis has written "I have just received your Paymaster's Watch. It is very handsome & [ page torn] assures me it is as good as can be made;" on the upper outside panel, "Cost -- 15 G.s"
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
Saying he has been writing him regularly though it appears his letters have not reached him; saying he is sending him newspapers and that he "will find the famous Junius among them, but you ought to read Horne's letter first.
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