BIB_ID
375767
Accession number
MA 854.37
Creator
Canning, George, 1770-1827.
Display Date
1809 July 9.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.1 cm
Notes
At top of p. [1]: "Private & Confidential."
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
Remarking, "it may be part of the new plan to make a formal proposition to you, through some other person than me, and without my participation or knowledge"; telling Wellesley that if this happens, he should say that he has talked to Canning and is "already prepared"; noting that [Henry] Bat[hurst] did something similar, and therefore he has "no scruple in avowing that [he] has done so with [Wellesley.]"
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