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Autograph letter signed : "Chinsurah", to Sir Philip Francis, 1779 July 25.

BIB_ID
341047
Accession number
MA 149.59
Creator
Fowke, Joseph, 1716-1806.
Display Date
1779 July 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20 cm.
Notes
Address panel to "Philip Francis Esq."
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
Discussing Francis' ambitions to be Governor-General.