BIB_ID
340134
Accession number
MA 149.11
Creator
Campbell, John, 1708-1775.
Display Date
1772 Nov. 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.), bound ; 22.5 cm.
Notes
Docketed "10 Nov. 1772 / Doctor Campbell / Rx. at Paris."
In a letter from Francis to Campbell, dated 17 October 1772, Francis sent him "an Epigram of my own conception, upon a marvelous antique lion in the Medici Palace."
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
The identity of the recipient inferred from the contents.
The letter is written in an unknown hand but with Campbell's signature.
In a letter from Francis to Campbell, dated 17 October 1772, Francis sent him "an Epigram of my own conception, upon a marvelous antique lion in the Medici Palace."
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
The identity of the recipient inferred from the contents.
The letter is written in an unknown hand but with Campbell's signature.
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
Apologizing for not replying to his last letter that gave him "great pleasure;" saying that to make amends he has included a translation; translating a poem "to show your Epigram was not entirely thrown away."
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