Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : London, to the Earl of Mornington [Richard Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley], 1798 Dec. 28.

BIB_ID
375605
Accession number
MA 854.2
Creator
Canning, George, 1770-1827.
Display Date
1798 Dec. 28.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.5 cm
Notes
At top of p. [1]: "Private."
Docketed.
Part of a large collection of letters from and to George Canning. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 854-855 for more details.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1912.
Summary
Sending him a publication via a young relation "to whom [Henry] Dundas has been so good as to give a Cadetship"; writing that he is pleased to hear of Mornington's "good health, and great popularity in [his] new position."