BIB_ID
375789
Accession number
MA 854.41
Creator
Canning, George, 1770-1827.
Display Date
1809 July 18.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.1 cm
Notes
Lacking the end of the letter.
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
Admitting that he "left a commission ... with Lord Granville Leveson on Sunday Evening to intimate to Lord Harrowby my intention of apprizing you of the probability of my resignation"; adding that "some accident" prevented Lord Granville Leveson from doing so that evening, and then he asked Lord Granville Leveson to "do nothing until [he] should speak to him again"; stating that he will tell the D[uke] of P[ortland] that he has communicated to Wellesley the probability of his resigning; saying that Wellesley should "still proceed at once without delay to Spain."
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