BIB_ID
339485
Accession number
MA 148.65
Creator
Barrington, William Wildman Barrington, Viscount, 1717-1793.
Display Date
1772 Feb. 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.), bound ; 22.7 cm.
Notes
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
Sir Philip Francis had recently resigned from the War Office.
Written from Cavendish Square.
Sir Philip Francis had recently resigned from the War Office.
Written from Cavendish Square.
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 will be looking for a new first Clerk [for the War Office]; asking him if he would compose an announcement of his resignation; saying that "It will be absolutely necessary that I should tell some few persons the occasion of my losing you, and I had much rather do it in your words than in mine."
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