BIB_ID
341027
Accession number
MA 149.53
Creator
Francis, Philip, 1768-1837.
Display Date
1778 Nov. 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.5 cm.
Notes
Address panel to "Philip Francis Esq / Bengal."
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
Telling him of his progress with his studies in French, Latin and English under his tutor; saying that he will start at Harrow after Christmas where he hopes to learn to "live by myself."
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