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Autograph letter signed with initial : India, to [Sir Philip Francis], "Wednesday night" 1779 Sept. 29.

BIB_ID
340498
Accession number
MA 149.29
Creator
Day, John, Sir, active 1787-1789.
Display Date
"Wednesday night" 1779 Sept. 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Docketed.
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.
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
Telling him not to come to Calcutta until after the monsoon; relating news of Sir Eyre Coote, Warren Hastings and Mrs. Day.