BIB_ID
375844
Accession number
MA 854.45
Creator
Canning, George, 1770-1827.
Display Date
1809 Sept. 27.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (9 p.) ; 23.6 cm
Notes
At top of p. [1]: "Private & Confidential."
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
Reporting that his leg wound is healing well and he hopes to be "upon [his] legs again" in a fortnight; sending a statement defending himself against accusations made by [Robert Stewart, Viscount] C[astlereagh]'s advocates; naming Lord Camden [John Jeffreys Pratt] as "the source of all the mischief"; discussing a letter from Wellesley to Canning that was printed in the Courier, and telling him that he gave the letter to Henry Wellesley for safe keeping before Canning's duel with Castlereagh; avowing that he has no idea how the letter came to be printed, and calling its publication "a most unwarrantable breach of confidence"; writing that he also asked the "King's permission to send [Wellesley his] leave of absence before he went to the duel; mentioning a possible junction between Lord [William] Grenville, Lord [Charles] Gray, and [Spencer] Perceval.
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