BIB_ID
375742
Accession number
MA 854.29
Creator
Canning, George, 1770-1827.
Display Date
1807 Nov. 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.9 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.
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
Telling him, "although I should have been most sincerely happy if you had felt disposed to accept the situation, I cannot be surprised at your declining"; remarking that he has not received a "packet of dispatches" Wellesley sent, then adding in a postscript that the dispatches have arrived.
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