Record ID:
341062
Accession number:
MA 149.61
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description:
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.3 cm.
Notes:
Docketed on verso.
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.
Summary:
Referring to the ongoing dispute between Francis and Hastings; saying "I remain in the opinion that a resolution has passed in your favour. At all events you will retire with credit, and will end your life much happier than your opponents, who sooner or later must be ruin'd, and they will in all probability draw the ruin of some others after them;' reminding him that he said six months earlier that "If this Government is not changed within six weeks, we shall be undone in India."
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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