Record ID:
341065
Accession number:
MA 149.63
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description:
1 item (3 p.) ; 23.0 cm.
Notes:
Docketed on verso.
Identity of recipient inferred from contents of 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 with Warren Hastings; saying "Hastings and Barwell have pushed my ruin to the very utmost of their power, and I cannot help being of opinion they would both have acted wiser if they had shwen more moderation in victory. I still remain unbent and unbroken, without retaining one spark of malice to either of them......The interest of individuals must always yield to the necessities of the state. He who does not see this truth, sees but a little way into the history of the political world."
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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