BIB_ID
341609
Accession number
MA 150.5
Creator
Tilghman, Richard, d. 1787.
Display Date
1772 Apr. 3.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 23.3 cm.
Notes
Docketed at the top of page 1.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
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 the news of his mother's death; saying that he "cannot help measuring the Things in this Country by an English Scale; and when I find them fall short, (which is always the Case) I am cursedly vexed;" saying that he was "in Hopes that You had given over all Thoughts of your Indian Expedition long ago. I could never be reconcil'd to the Scheme. My Opinion is that, all Things considered, the Chances would be greatly against your ever returning to your own Country. You are a Stranger to the Miseries of a Voyage by Sea, and can have no Idea of the Climate of India, the Heats I mean. They would be intolerable to a Man of your Impatience;" adding that he observes "with what Triumph You mention the Circumstance of the thorough Defeat of Opposition. If the King does suffer Lord North to fall a Sacrifice to the Bedfords, He is--not the Man I took him for--But why do talk thus to You? We could never hit it in Politics. Whether it was that You had too great a Lean to the Court, or for what other Reason, I know not."
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