BIB_ID
340506
Accession number
MA 149.32
Creator
Day, John, Sir, active 1787-1789.
Display Date
"Thursday noon" 1780 Apr. 20.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (6 p.) ; 23.5 cm
Notes
Docketed.
Identity of recipient and place of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
Identity of recipient and place of writing 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
Requesting that Francis procure papers related to the Berboom Claim so that he might review them; wanting to speak with him about the advice he gave him, which he believes was misconstrued, on the opium contract.
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