BIB_ID
340320
Accession number
MA 149.19
Creator
Clive of Plassey, Margaret, Lady, 1735-1817.
Display Date
1774 Mar. 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 22.7 cm.
Notes
Address panel to "Philip Francis Esq."
Docketed "25 March 1774 / Lady Clive."
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
Docketed "25 March 1774 / Lady Clive."
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
Inviting him to dinner; asking him to let her know "how many times you can come to Berkeley Square, & no consideration shall induce me to seem to slight you for I really prefer you to my favorite fields & meadows;" with a postscript by Maria Ducarel, written upside down on the top of the page.
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