BIB_ID
340504
Accession number
MA 149.31
Creator
Day, John, Sir, active 1787-1789.
Display Date
1779 Dec. 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address), bound ; 22.7 cm
Notes
Address panel to "Philip Francis Esqr / &c &c &c."
Docketed.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
Docketed.
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
Referring to a meeting of the Governor-General and the Chief Justice; saying that it "bodes the cause no good;" laying out a strategy to argue their case.
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