BIB_ID
340133
Accession number
MA 149.10
Creator
Campbell, John, 1708-1775.
Display Date
1773 Dec. 28.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p.), bound ; 22.7 cm.
Notes
Docketed "28 Dec. 1773 / Doctor Campbell."
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
The attached document refers to a bequest to Sir Francis from John Calcraft, a political ally of Sir Francis for the reform of Parliament.
With two pages of autograph manuscript discussing, in detail, a specific legacy to Mr. Francis from a will and several codicils.
Written from "Queen Square, Ormond Street."
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
The attached document refers to a bequest to Sir Francis from John Calcraft, a political ally of Sir Francis for the reform of Parliament.
With two pages of autograph manuscript discussing, in detail, a specific legacy to Mr. Francis from a will and several codicils.
Written from "Queen Square, Ormond Street."
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 to meet with him to discuss a will he was asked by Francis to review; adding that he has "thought very seriously of the subjects on which we last conversed and in Truth they deserve the most serious Consideration..."
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