BIB_ID
339304
Accession number
MA 148.51
Creator
Francis, Philip, Sir, 1740-1818.
Display Date
1771 Dec. 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address), bound ; 22.8 cm.
Notes
Address panel with postmark and addressed to "Major Philip Baggs, / Commanding the 69th Reg't of Foot / at / Gibraltar;" above the address Francis has written "On H.M. Service;" below the address is "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
Discussing his continuing attempts to help resolve an ongoing financial issue involving pay and insurance for Baggs; relating political news and news of mutual acquaintances in the British Army in India.
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