BIB_ID
342103
Accession number
MA 150.47
Creator
Hay, Edward, fl. 1780.
Display Date
1780 July 18.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.9 cm.
Notes
Identity of the recipient inferred from the contents of the letter.
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
Referring to military orders which have been reissued; forwarding letters from Madras and Bombay and saying they "will probably inform you on the Motions of Hyder Ally, who, it is said, is at the Head of sixty thousand Men, and upon his march into the Carnatic."
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