BIB_ID
375902
Accession number
MA 855.23
Creator
Canning, George, 1770-1827.
Display Date
1809 July 18.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.6 cm
Notes
Marked "Private" and "Copy."
Part of a large collection of letters from and to George Canning. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 854-855 for more detail.
The Duke of Portland's reply to this letter is MA 855.22.
Part of a large collection of letters from and to George Canning. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 854-855 for more detail.
The Duke of Portland's reply to this letter is MA 855.22.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1912.
Summary
Concerning "the reserve which has been practised, and which (as your Grace informs me) is to be continued towards Lord Castlereagh;" saying he does not "presume to question the propriety of it. But in Justice to myself I cannot forbear to request of your Grace, that it may be remembered, whenever hereafter this Concealment shall be alledged (as I doubt not it will) against me, as an act of Injustice towards Lord Castlereagh, that it did not originate in my Suggestion - that so far from desiring it, I conceived, however erroneously Lord Camden to be the sure Channel of Communication to Lord Castlereagh; and that up to a very late period, I believed such Communication to have been actually made."
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