BIB_ID
375695
Accession number
MA 854.24
Creator
Canning, George, 1770-1827.
Display Date
1807 Jan. 15.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 23.6 cm
Notes
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.
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
Commenting on recent government actions and mentioning Lord Folkestone [William Pleydell-Bouverie] and Lord Howick [Charles Grey]; telling him that he is in Hinckley "with a child, whom we have brought here (after trying every other course) for the advice of [a] practitioner in surgery, to be cured (if possible) of an unfortunate lameness contracted from I know not what accident, when he was an infant"; saying he plans to stay in Hinckley until the end of the month but can return to London if his attendance in Parliament is "in the slightest degree desirable"; giving his address in Hinckley.
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