BIB_ID
339522
Accession number
MA 148.70
Creator
Barrington, William Wildman Barrington, Viscount, 1717-1793.
Display Date
1770 Oct. 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.), bound ; 24.1 cm.
Notes
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
Asking if he would ask about the health of the marchioness of Tweedale who had just lost her only son; referring to a letter is wishes to write to the Colonels of the Regiments abroad "requiring a return of such absent officers as they have ordered to join their Corps but who have not yet obeyed."
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