Record ID:
340550
Accession number:
MA 149.39
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description:
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.0 cm.
Notes:
Docketed.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
Probable reference to the Great Fire of July 27, 1770 in the Portsmouth Dockyard in which arson was suspected.
Summary:
Relating the details of the "destruction at Portsmouth."
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.
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