BIB_ID
375938
Accession number
MA 854.53
Creator
Canning, George, 1770-1827.
Display Date
1809 Dec. 27.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.6 cm
Notes
At top of p. [1]: "Private."
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
Returning a dispatch from Mr. Jackson "which Jackson intended for whoever might be the Secretary of State on its arrival in England"; suggesting that "it may throw some light as well on Jackson's conduct as on the state of affairs in America."
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