BIB_ID
342235
Accession number
MA 150.51
Creator
Ironside, Gilbert, fl. 1780.
Display Date
1780 Oct. 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.6 cm.
Notes
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
Sending him a proposal and observations on minutes of meetings from July, August and September; commenting on current conditions; saying that "the wasting away of our European Soldiers announces our Regiments tending fast to dissolution--Sensible of this, of want of common intelligence at the fountain heads; of this entire neglect of the principal supports of an army; of universal carelessness and inattention, and of the total defect of Subordination....I am daily endeavouring as well as I can by discipline and instruction to the natives as well as Europeans, to compensate in some measure these great evils; that We may not be cut off by our enemies without a possibility of resistance."
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