BIB_ID
342539
Accession number
MA 150.71
Creator
Smith, L.L., Captain, active 1780.
Display Date
1779 Oct. 20.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.7 cm.
Notes
Docketed on verso.
It is likely that the General who is the subject of this letter is Sir Eyre Coote.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
It is likely that the General who is the subject of this letter is Sir Eyre Coote.
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 arrival of a General who "complained much of a cold he got at Plassey, where he stoped [sic] a day to shew Sir R. Chambers and the other Ladies the field where he triumphed in 1757."
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