BIB_ID
341032
Accession number
MA 149.55
Creator
Francis, Elizabeth, 1764-1804.
Display Date
1778 Dec. 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 23.5 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
Expressing her gratitude to her father who "for our sakes has risk'd his life, & Health to make us happy. Surely such uncommon love can never be repaid by us, our utmost wish must be to prove worthy of it & I think we cannot be otherwise & be the Children of such Parents;" saying that her mother and her brother and three sisters are all in good health.
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