BIB_ID
342323
Accession number
MA 150.56
Creator
Martin, Claude, 1735-1800.
Display Date
1780 Sept. 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 23.0 cm.
Notes
Docketed on verso.
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.
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.
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 the continuing campaign against Warren Hastings and the possibility that Hastings might be relieved of his post as Governor-General; relating, in French, news on military deployments in the region.
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