BIB_ID
340482
Accession number
MA 149.24
Creator
Collings, L., active 1780.
Display Date
1780 Aug. 7.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 23.0 cm
Notes
Identity of recipient inferred from contents of the letter.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
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
Commenting on the situation with Warren Hastings; saying that he understands that he [Francis] is "going home, and that Mr. Wheler has openly joined the Governor. Be it so or not--if you think it worthwhile, I believe you may have Coote on your own Terms--he is dissatisfied & makes no scruple of speaking in pretty plain terms, his Resentment against H[astings];" saying that he knows that "the State of this Country is beyond a Cure, but it will be rendering an essential Service to protract the Loss of it whilst any Benefit can be derived from it and I am still, as ever have been, of Opinion that you are the only Man we can look up to."
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