BIB_ID
375964
Accession number
MA 855.33
Creator
Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812.
Display Date
1809.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 32.1 cm
Notes
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 letter is undated however it appears that it follows on to his letter to Canning dated August 31, 1809 (MA 855.32).
The letter is undated however it appears that it follows on to his letter to Canning dated August 31, 1809 (MA 855.32).
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1912.
Summary
Explaining that he had "communicated fully with my Brother" and "I am now fully satisfied in my own mind that I should be considered by my Friends as suffering a degree of degradation by my removal from my present office and Situation in the House of Commons, which I ought not to acquiesce in - I believe I left you strongly impressed with the opinion that such would probably be my determination (which indeed I collected to be your own also) - but as I had not fully and decisively expressed it to you before, I thought it necessary to trouble you with this line. This being the case, I therefore earnestly hope, tho' the arrangement under a third Person would not appear generally expedient or satisfactory, yet that under present Circumstances and difficulties, which really arise out of our situation, without any fault of either of us, it is preferable to that total overthrow of the present Government which otherwise is likely at no great distance to ensue."
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