BIB_ID
342880
Accession number
MA 150.86
Creator
Lee, Charles, 1731-1782.
Display Date
1775 Oct. 20.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 12.0 cm.
Notes
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
This fragment is unsigned, written in an unidentified hand and on the verso of a fragment of a letter; it is signed "Gen'l Lee's Letters / Camp before Boston."
This fragment is unsigned, written in an unidentified hand and on the verso of a fragment of a letter; it is signed "Gen'l Lee's Letters / Camp before Boston."
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
Saying "I ever held in a tolerable degree of detestation our Court and Ministry, and in not less contempt the bulk of our landed Gentlemen, whose Intellects appeared to me most wretched, as did their Sentiments low illiberal and narrow, but I could never conceive that the former would have pushed their wickedness to its present length, nor that the latter were so immerged in stupidity as to subscribe to measures which must infallibly end in their own Ruin."
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