BIB_ID
375929
Accession number
MA 854.50
Creator
Canning, George, 1770-1827.
Display Date
1809 Dec. 5.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (11 p.) ; 23.8 cm
Notes
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.
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
Attempting to clear his conduct in Wellesley's mind (regarding his supposed opposition to Wellesley's appointment to a political office); complaining that Wellesley is showing people letters he marked as private and confidential; remarking that he was hurt to learn from rumors instead of from Wellesley himself that Wellesley had accepted the "seals of the Foreign Office"; arguing that his letters were not meant to "fetter [Wellesley's] conduct, or even to prejudice [his] opinions"; further defending his own conduct and complaining about Wellesley's in recent political and personal matters.
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