BIB_ID
341050
Accession number
MA 149.60
Creator
Fowke, Joseph, 1716-1806.
Display Date
1779 July 27.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 20.0 cm.
Notes
Docketed.
Identity of recipient 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 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
Commenting on the dispute with Hastings; saying "It is past all doubt with me that neither Hastings nor Barwell can be continued in their offices by any administration with the heavy charges that stand against them in the late letters of the Directors. It would bring a slur upon this Parliament which could never he washed away--and even supposing Parliament should not interfere, it is very unlikely that the Directors would dare to continue men in power whom they have censured with so much asperity."
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