BIB_ID
341203
Accession number
MA 149.66
Creator
Fraser, Simon, 1726-1782.
Display Date
1779 June 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.9 cm.
Notes
Docketed on recto " Rx 14 Febry 1780"
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
Relating news of various people and their positions in the Administration in England and commenting on the war in America; offering his advice on the continuing campaign by Francis against Warren Hastings; saying that he is "not equal to giving advice, but if I were I have but one to give, Stay where you are, I should repeat that over & over again, Stay, Stay, whatever people may write to you I am perfectly convinced you have by much the best chance of any man living to be Gov'nr Gen'l. I do not say by any means a certainty, but the time in which it must be determined is so near, that it would be compleat [sic] folly to throw away the chance by withdrawing."
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